Business Compliance SME (m/f/x)

IBM

IBM

Compliance / Regulatory

Frankford, DE, USA

Posted on Jun 2, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Business Controls Professional, you will drive IBM's Global Framework of Internal Control aligned with COSO/SOX, external best practices, and IBM's dynamic footprint. You will act as a Trusted Business Advisor by collaborating across the Three Lines to enhance IBM risk management and internal control practices. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate Across Functions: Collaborate with various stakeholders across the Three Lines to identify, assess, and mitigate control risks, enhancing IBM's risk management and internal control practices.

• Drive Internal Control Framework: Drive the implementation of IBM's Global Framework of Internal Control, ensuring alignment with COSO/SOX and external best practices.

• Enhance Organizational Capability: Build IBM's organizational capability to identify, assess, and mitigate control risks, promoting a culture of risk awareness and internal control.

• Provide Advisory Services: Act as a Trusted Business Advisor, providing guidance and support to stakeholders on risk management and internal control practices.

• Identify and Mitigate Risks: Identify and mitigate control risks, ensuring the effectiveness of IBM's internal control framework.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Risk Management Frameworks: Familiarity with internal control frameworks such as COSO/SOX and external best practices, with the ability to apply this knowledge in a dynamic business environment.

• Experience with Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to collaborate with various stakeholders across functions to achieve common goals, such as enhancing risk management and internal control practices.

• Understanding of Internal Control Principles: Knowledge of internal control principles and practices, including the ability to identify, assess, and mitigate control risks.

• Familiarity with Advisory Services: Experience working in an advisory capacity, providing guidance and support to stakeholders on risk management and internal control practices.

• Exposure to Organizational Capability Building: Experience contributing to building organizational capability, promoting a culture of risk awareness and internal control.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• External Best Practices Knowledge: Familiarity with external best practices related to internal control frameworks, such as COSO/SOX, and the ability to apply this knowledge in a dynamic business environment to drive IBM's Global Framework of Internal Control.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration Experience: Proven ability to collaborate with various stakeholders across functions to achieve common goals, such as enhancing risk management and internal control practices, and providing guidance and support to stakeholders.

• Organizational Capability Building: Experience contributing to building organizational capability, promoting a culture of risk awareness and internal control, and identifying, assessing, and mitigating control risks.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.