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Associate Partner - SAP Financial Services

IBM

Accounting & Finance

Barcelona, Spain

Posted on Dec 24, 2025

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.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced SAP Associate Partner to join our leadership team with a focus on sales and delivery of SAP-enabled business transformation projects. This individual will play a key role in expanding our footprint in indirect tax and excise duty domains, leveraging solutions based on the core SAP modules such as Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Product Costing (PC), and Material Ledger (ML), using the new s/4Hana capabilities like Opentext VIM, SAP DRC, SAP FSCM, Cash Management, SAC, Group Reporting, etc.

You will engage with senior client stakeholders, lead large-scale SAP programs, develop new business opportunities, and provide thought leadership in SAP-based finance, controlling and reporting.

Your role and responsibilities

Sales & Business Development

* Drive revenue growth through origination and closure of new SAP engagements, particularly in the Finance, Controlling and Reporting domain.
* Build and maintain strong client relationships with key decision-makers (CFO, Tax Directors, Supply Chain leaders).
* Develop go-to-market strategies and lead proposal responses and client presentations.
* Collaborate with industry and solution leaders to shape offerings and industry-specific accelerators.

Delivery Leadership

* Oversee end-to-end delivery of complex SAP programs, ensuring excellence in scope, time, budget, and quality.
* Lead cross-functional SAP teams across Finance, Controlling, Reporting and Supply Chain streams, including third-party solutions.
* Act as an executive sponsor for SAP implementations and ensure business value realization for the client.
* Manage project risks, governance, stakeholder engagement, and change management strategies

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Subject Matter Expertise

* Serve as a thought leader in SAP Finance, Controlling, Reporting.
* SAP FI/CO
* SAP Reporting
* Provide guidance on new integrated SAP solutions, like Sap Statutory & Tax Ledger & Journals, Sap Universal Parallel Accounting, Margin Analysis, Sap Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM), Sap Analytics cloud (SAC) - Planning and Reporting, Sap Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC), Sap Group Reporting & Sap BPC, SAP DRC, Sap Treasury & Risk Management, etc.
* Product Costing and Material Ledger
* Integration with SD, MM, and TM where relevant to taxation
* Keep abreast of evolving SAP technologies (e.g., S/4HANA, SAP BTP).

Qualifications

* 20+ years of experience in SAP consulting, with at least 3 years in a client-facing leadership or associate partner role.
* Strong track record in SAP sales/pursuits, with a focus on finance solutions and finance transformation.
* Proven delivery leadership in global SAP implementations.
* Deep knowledge of new SAP solutions on S/4Hana suite.
* Finance, Controlling & Reporting
* Product Costing and Material Ledger
* Experience working in regulated industries is highly preferred.
* Ability to communicate complex topics to business and IT stakeholders.

Preferred technical and professional experience

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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.

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