Ibm Global Services Work Values

Daily Duties at Ibm Global Services:

BPC Consultant/Architect/Project Manager for 10 clients in the U.S., Canada, Mexico & Jamaica. Clients included fortune 500 companies in various industries to include: Food Processing, Automotive & Paper Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Banking & Professional Services. Projects ranged from co-architecting BPC solutions for Planning, Legal Consolidations & the BPC IFRS module, data migrations/reconciliations (i.e., Hyperion and ECC to BPC) & managing the development BPC input forms & reports. Most of the projects involved either new ECC installs or reconfigurations to include GL and/or organization restructuring. With these types of projects much more attention and work was necessary in data analysis, transformation, loading and reconciliation due to the fact that BPC is heavily dependent on the consumption and use of ECC data. Most projects required managing BPC consultants (on-site, remote and off shore) as well as assigned client resources. • Responsible for all SDLC phases, Requirements, Design, Realization, Test & Go-Live, Hypercare. • Responsible for project communications, team meetings, status reporting, maintaining and/or updating various client project repositories for documentation, requirements & testing • Responsible for various Project documentation to include o Project Plan o Project Estimate o Design Document o Configuration Document o Process Definition Document (PDD) • Responsible for IBM PM responsibilities to include: client billing, IBM personnel as well as contractor time & expense reporting, & internal IBM leadership reporting • Acted as Accounting liaison/Accounting SME/BPC SME between the client accounting folks and the BPC Architects/Developers to ensure requirement/design/build alignment • Architected, Designed & either performed or managed the build of dimensions, models, data imports/exports, script logic, input forms/reports, BPFs (Business Process Flows), FX Trans, US Eliminations & the BPC IFRS starter kit • Led and/or oversaw building/presenting BPC Demos & Proof of Concepts Some of the challenges experienced include: • Building a Consolidation solution in a BPC environment being constructed by another consulting firm. • Automating eliminations with a source system that did not track Trading Partner. • Building a single solution that fits the legal consolidation requirements of the many different countries and regions of the world in which this client operates in. • Designing & building a budgeting/forecasting & solution with various levels and detail. Key Contributions: • Architected the Planning solution • Co-Architected the Legal Consolidations solution • Co-architected the IFP solution

What they like about Ibm Global Services:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

Financial, Business Planning, Planning, General Ledger, GL, Information Technology, IT Manager, Accounting, Accounting Functions, Financial Statements, Project Manager, BPC Consultant, Scrum Master, BPC, Agile

Skills

Business Acumen, Project Managment, Accounting Knowledge, Ability to Communicate, Team Leadership

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Ibm Global Services: