IBM - Associate Partner/Lead - Intelligent & Cognitive Automation/RPA

Your Role and Responsibilities:

- 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 robust tracking mechanism for key indicators of the operations to support decision-making

- Responsible to achieve 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

- Responsible to deliver FTE savings with automation of F&A processes across Towers viz, P2P, O2C, R2R and Procurement service contracts

- Partner with Sales team in pursuing RPA opportunities in the region and sign all the RPA solutions before submission to clients.

- Responsible for Delivery Sign off all RPA commercial proposals, solutions within the APAC, GCG, ANZ, Japan and MEA.

- Assist Geo Leads to help on various RPA road show initiatives and client engagement to showcase IBM's methodology and capability

- Build RPA capability across skillsets to deliver multiple engagements including advisory services and implementation of leading RPA and automation tools viz, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, UiPath, Win Automation.

- Engage in implementation and standardization of RPA Solution documentation for APAC, ANZ and MEA regions

- 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 Professional and Technical Expertise:

- Minimum 15-20 years of experience in Finance and Accounting RPA Transformations

- Proven experience creating and developing of value proposition, business cases, industry specific offerings

- Ability to ideate strategic direction and initiatives through designing of business outcome models, contracting structures and identification of new opportunities and business lines

- Proficient in supporting sales team for building compelling business case for prospect clients to offshore business and work closely with Process Delivery leaders in identifying improvement opportunities and implement the same across all processes

- Expertise to lead efforts on continuous process improvements and transformation along with carrying out maturity assessments

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise:

- A certified Chartered Accountant/Company Secretaryship/Certified Management Accountant

- Proven experience in end to end Procure to Pay 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 own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with 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