Associate Partner- F&A Operations Delivery

IBM; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM in Bengaluru seeks an Associate Partner to lead finance client engagements and transformational change across industries. You will own contracts, design outcomes, and drive value through robust process improvements.

Responsibilities include mentoring teams, tracking key metrics, and supporting sales with compelling business cases for offshore delivery. The role requires deep experience in end-to-end finance processes, strong leadership, and the ability to influence varied stakeholders to

Qualifications

• Minimum 18-20 years of experience in Finance and Accounting Delivery & Transformations.
• Proven experience creating value propositions, business cases, and offerings.
• Ability to ideate strategic direction via business outcome models, contracting structures, and new opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Own client engagements across geographies and drive operations improvements.
• Establish tracking mechanisms for key indicators to support decision-making.
• Mentor and train team members to meet process objectives and customer requirements.
• Support sales with business cases to offshore teams and identify improvement opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Client engagement

Business case development

Strategic planning

Influencing stakeholders

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Company Secretary (CS)

Certified Management Accountant (CMA)

Tools

R2R process

P2P process

OTC process

Job description

• As an Associate Partner, you are responsible for handling finance clients in different industries and across Finance and Accounts.
• You will own client engagements/contracts across geographies- Operations support for establishing processes, metrics identifications and reporting.
• Establish and maintain a robust tracking mechanism for key indicators of the operations to support decision-making.
• Responsible for achieving transformation at a high level of change management experience, including challenging, inspiring, and leading the team.
• Responsible for tracking and driving all process parameters critical to quality' for process delivery.
• Assist management with career development activities for team members, team leaders and managers, including performance management, feedback, and training.
• Ensure adequate mentorship & training of team members to ensure process objectives & Customer requirements are met.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 18-20 years of experience in Finance and Accounting Delivery & Transformations.
• Proven experience creating and developing value propositions, business cases, and industry-specific offerings.
• Ability to ideate strategic direction and initiatives through designing business outcome models, contracting structures and identification of new opportunities and business lines.
• Proficient in supporting the sales team in building a compelling business case for prospective clients to the offshore business and working closely with Process Delivery leaders in identifying improvement opportunities and implementing the same across all processes.
• Expertise in leading efforts on continuous process improvements and transformation along with carrying out maturity assessments.

Preferred Skills:

• A certified Chartered Accountant/Company Secretaryship/Certified Management Accountant.
• Proven experience in end-to-end Record to Report, Procure to Pay & Order to Cash process.
• In-depth process knowledge in central finance reporting, management reporting and reports.
• Ability to influence people internal/external customers, Operations and Finance partners.
• Ambitious individual who can work under their direction towards agreed targets/goals and with a creative approach to work.
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management.
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications.