Associate Finance Specialist; SAP

Introduction

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Future Now Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Future Now Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology. As an Associate at IBM, you'll work with clients to help solve real-world business challenges through technology, innovation, and consulting.

From day one, you'll gain hands-on experience on real client projects while receiving professional and technical mentorship, career coaching, and access to certification opportunities. At IBM, AI is part of how we deliver solutions, accelerate development, analyze data, automate business processes, and help clients solve complex business challenges. You'll also develop the consulting, communication, and collaboration skills needed to work effectively with clients and multidisciplinary teams throughout your career.

As an Associate Finance Specialist at IBM, you'll apply your knowledge of finance, accounting, and business operations while developing expertise in SAP, one of the world's leading enterprise technology platforms. You'll help organizations modernize financial processes, improve financial performance and reporting, and use technology, data, automation, and Artificial Intelligence to transform how finance operates. As part of our SAP practice, you'll work alongside experienced SAP consultants, finance professionals, and technology specialists to help clients solve real-world financial and business challenges through SAP-enabled solutions.

This opportunity is designed for individuals with a strong foundation in finance or accounting who are interested in developing technology and consulting expertise. Prior SAP experience is not required. IBM will provide structured learning, mentorship, IBM Skills Build, certification opportunities, and hands-on client experiences to help you develop specialized SAP capabilities. Depending on business needs, your skills, academic background, and career interests, you may support SAP solutions across areas such as financial accounting, management accounting, financial reporting, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, budgeting, forecasting, cost management, controlling, and other finance-related business processes.

No two projects are exactly alike, you could support clients across industries including manufacturing, consumer products, retail, healthcare, financial services, energy, automotive, industrial, public sector, and more. Throughout your experience, you'll strengthen your understanding of end-to-end financial processes while learning how SAP technologies enable those processes across large organizations. You'll gain exposure to how financial requirements are translated into enterprise solutions and how technology, data, automation, analytics, and AI can improve financial operations and decision-making.

• Work with finance, accounting, business, and technology teams to understand financial processes, requirements, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support SAP-enabled finance processes including financial accounting, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cost management, controlling, and related financial activities.
• Analyze financial and business requirements and help translate them into SAP-enabled process and technology solutions.
• Apply finance and accounting knowledge to understand how transactions and business processes flow through an organization and contribute to financial reporting, controls, analysis, and decision-making.
• Participate in SAP configuration, testing, data validation, documentation, issue resolution, and solution implementation activities under the guidance of experienced team members.
• Analyze financial, operational, and business data to identify trends, evaluate performance, and support business decision-making.
• Support finance process improvement and transformation initiatives designed to improve efficiency, accuracy, visibility, controls, and financial performance.
• Collaborate with experienced SAP consultants, finance professionals, technology specialists, and client stakeholders while developing consulting, communication, analytical, and technology skills.
• Gain exposure to how Artificial Intelligence, automation, analytics, cloud technologies, and enterprise platforms are transforming the finance function.

We're not looking for SAP experts. We're looking for individuals with strong finance and accounting…