Associate Consultant - Business Transformation - Finance
Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
Your role and responsibilities
Overview
At IBM Consulting, we help organisations rethink how they work using technology, data, and fresh ideas. As a graduate, you'll join a diverse, supportive team that's focused on learning, innovation, and solving real client problems.
The Role
As an Associate Consultant in Finance Transformation, you'll work with clients across different sectors to modernise their finance processes, improve performance, and adopt new technologies. You'll sit at the intersection of business, data, and technology-helping clients understand what "good" looks like and how to get there.This role is ideal for someone who's curious about how finance works in large organisations and wants to build a career as a trusted advisor.
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What You'll Do
- Support workshops, interviews, and client meetings
- Document finance related requirements and help shape future state processes
- Analyse data to spot trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities
- Map out "as is" and "to be" finance processes
- Translate business needs into practical, technology enabled solutions
- Work in agile teams across consulting, design, and technical specialists
- Prepare clear and simple communications for clients
- Learn and apply IBM's problem solving and design methods
- Support delivery of projects across areas such as reporting, planning, controls, or operating models
Why IBM Consulting?
You'll learn from experienced consultants, receive ongoing training, build professional certifications (including support for CIMA), and make an impact from day one. You'll join a community that celebrates different backgrounds, supports personal growth, and believes that everyone brings something unique.
Being You @ IBM
We're an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Must be a UK citizen (due to financial sector clearance requirements)
- Eligible and willing to obtain industry specific clearances
- Interest in, or intention to study, CIMA
- Willingness to travel as needed
- A final year student or recent graduate in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related degree
- Motivated to develop a finance career and willing to work towards CIMA
- A strong communicator who can simplify complex ideas
- Analytical, logical, and comfortable working with numbers and data
- Curious, resilient, and able to adapt quickly in new situations
- Motivated by solving problems and helping clients improve how they work
- Able to work independently, collaborate in teams, and manage multiple tasks
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
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