IBM Hiring-Transformation SME Controllership & Specialist Finance
Transformation SME Controllership & Specialist Finance (C&SF)
Shifts- US Shifts- Night shift
Service Line: IBM Consulting – Finance Transformation
Specialisation: Controllership | Tax | Treasury | Internal Controls
Role Purpose
The C&SF Transformation SME is a senior subjectmatter expert responsible for designing, shaping, and driving enterprisescale finance transformations across controllership and specialist finance domains. The role partners with CFO organisations, Global Business Services (GBS), and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to rearchitect operating models, strengthen governance and controls, and enable scalable, compliant, and auditready finance functions.
This role acts as a bridge between business, finance policy, risk, and technology, ensuring that statutory, regulatory, and control requirements are embedded by design into global finance transformation programs.
Key Responsibilities
1. Transformation Design & Strategy
- Lead endtoend design of C&SF processes across Tax, Treasury, Internal Controls, Internal Audit, and Compliance.
- Define futurestate Target Operating Models (TOMs), including retained vs GBS vs CoE scope.
- Shape golden process flows, policy frameworks, and global standards for specialist finance towers.
- Ensure transformation design aligns to CFO objectives: faster close, reduced risk, improved transparency, and regulatory confidence.
2. Domain Leadership (Specialist Finance)
Provide deep SME leadership across one or more of the following:
Tax
- Global tax operating models, jurisdictional compliance, tax CoEs
- Audit readiness, evidence management, and risk mitigation
- Integration of tax requirements into RTR, S2P, O2C, and data flows
Treasury
- Cash & liquidity management, intercompany funding, FX exposure
- Treasury controls, policy governance, and bank integration models
Internal Controls & Compliance
- Design and embed ICFR / SOXequivalent controls into global processes
- Control rationalisation, automation, and continuous control monitoring
- Regulatory and statutory compliance by design
Internal Audit
- Auditready process and documentation standards
- Alignment of finance operations with internal audit and risk frameworks
- Support for management action plans and remediation governance
3. GBS, CoE & Service Delivery Enablement
- Define C&SF service catalogues, SLAs, KPIs, and governance models.
- Support transition to GBS and CoE delivery models, including knowledge transfer and stabilisation.
- Act as senior escalation point for design gaps, compliance risks, and audit concerns.
4. Technology & Automation Enablement
- Partner with technology teams to embed controls, compliance, and audit logic into ERP and digital workflows (e.g., SAPcentric landscapes).
- Support adoption of automation, analytics, and AIenabled controls to reduce manual risk.
- Ensure traceability, evidence, and auditability are built into solutions
5. Stakeholder & Governance Leadership
- Act as trusted advisor to CFOs, Financial Controllers, Tax Heads, Risk & Audit leaders.
- Lead design governance forums, design authority boards, and senior stakeholder reviews.
Provide clear, defensible recommendations on risk, compliance, and transformation tradeoffs.
Required Experience & Skills
- 12–20+ years of experience in Controllership / Specialist Finance / Risk / Audit / Compliance.
- Proven experience in largescale finance transformations, ideally involving GBS / CoE models.
- Strong understanding of regulatory, statutory, and control frameworks across geographies.
- Ability to translate policy and compliance requirements into scalable operating models.
- Executivelevel communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with global, matrixed teams and complex governance environments.
Preferred Background
- Prior experience in consulting or transformation leadership roles.
- Exposure to SAPled finance landscapes and digital finance programs.
- Experience working with or alongside Big 4, internal audit, or risk functions.
