Finance consulting
Leverage our expertise and proven technology stack to reimagine your finance processes and drive higher value across your enterprise through finance transformation
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Why IBM finance consulting?
Accelerate growth by transforming your finance processes
IBM Consulting offers financial transformation services, working with you to modernize processes and offering an end-to-end approach that includes the knowledge and partnerships used to successfully implement some of the largest and most complex finance transformations in the world. At a time when disparate finance and ERP systems are holding many organizations back, IBM Consulting helps you successfully migrate legacy ERP applications to the cloud, redesign processes to leverage data, AI and automation, and transform finance into a competitive advantage within your business.
Finance overview video (1:53)
Gartner has positioned IBM as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
Gartner has recognized IBM for Finance and Accounting Business Process Outsourcing and placed IBM furthest to the right for completeness of vision, for perfecting this approach as it helps clients everywhere discover and unlock the value with FAO.
Benefits of our financial services
70%
increase in process efficiency by automating workflows¹
67%
faster speed to outcomes by deploying flexible IT with custom cloud solutions¹
500+
dedicated finance transformation consultants¹
Modern business insights
The role and focus of the CFO has shifted from transactional work to relational, value-generating and business partnering where transformation is constant and essential. We are working with our clients to transform their finance organizations end-to-end and help them win the war on talent.
Monica Proothi
Partner, Practice Leader, Global Finance Transformation
IBM Consulting
Finance consulting services
We're in the business of enabling CFOs so they can democratize data across their enterprise, by empowering data stewards to access a modern platform to pull various types of data sets and derive new insights they couldn't have locked in before.
Caitlin Halferty
Partner, Global Finance and Data Transformation
IBM Consulting
Empower your people with a blueprint for your enterprise
By partnering with IBM Consulting to create a target operating model, you’re essentially building the blueprint for your enterprise. You’ll build a strong team, driven by continuous improvements, so employees are empowered to share valuable insights. You’ll also discover the right combination of business process outsourcing needs and capabilities needed to help transform your finance organization.
Build a smarter process for transformation
We unlock efficiency by building a smarter end-to-end process into financial workflows so businesses can harness the full power of their data, strengthen existing systems, empower employees, and use leading technologies to transform. Transformation requires consideration of yesterday’s practices while understanding today’s employee needs, then working together to build a valuable tomorrow for your enterprise.
Leverage the power of data
We transform data into business value by driving measurable advances in business execution. We partner with you to understand your business objectives and the current state, and to manage governance and controls in order to scale and process your enterprise, helping you design a data strategy that evolves your business into a data-driven, AI-fueled organization.
Employ technology to promote growth
Technology is in our DNA. Using leading technologies to transform your enterprise, IBM Consulting helps finance leaders drive growth, reduce risk, manage cost, and improve experiences for all stakeholders. Our consultants orchestrate the right combination of human and machine talent and draw on data and insights to aid users in their decision making.
Corporate finance case studies
Volkswagen prepares for an electric future
Volkswagen Sachsen worked with IBM Consulting to deploy SAP S/4HANA, helping it standardize and streamline its financial processes.
Generali optimizes financial workflows
Generali wanted to drive real-time data flow and shift the focus from reporting and reconciliation to analysis as a part of its finance transformation journey.
IBM's business process reinvention
IBM created a finance solution that reimagines the way customers buy and sellers sell, resolving outdated processes and siloed communications.
Strategic partnerships
SAP
Plan and consolidate with SAP
IBM Consulting and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) provides a unified, end-to-end solution for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation.
Oracle
Oracle finance transformation
Through a partnership of 36 years, IBM and Oracle offer solutions that enable finance teams to lead digital transformation, support automation, become true business partners and improve agility across organizational boundaries.
Celonis
Streamline processes with Celonis
IBM and Celonis accelerate the path to digital transformation with data migration support and rapid, data-driven process insights that enable enterprise clients to reimagine operating models.
Meet the experts
Financial services resources
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Co-create with IBM Garage™
Ideate, build, measure, iterate and scale solutions seamlessly with our end-to-end framework of design thinking, agile and DevOps practices. Achieve speed-to-value and adopt breakthrough technologies through the partnership created with your team and a diverse set of IBM experts in business, design and technology.
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Footnotes
¹IBM Finance transformation offering team