Job Description
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-terms career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your role and responsibilities
At IBM, we know technology. But technology is only as good as the results it delivers. But technology is only as good as the results it delivers. In this role, you'll work in our IBM FutureNow Center, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
As a member of our team, you will help IBM clients solve some of their most challenging business problems, capitalize on market opportunities and achieve real value in today’s tough economy.
We’re looking for passionate, original thinkers who want to drive progress, grow their network, and further their careers. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning, who believes no problem is too big to solve, and who wants to unleash their potential, an Associate role is for you.
Candidates must:
Have graduated no earlier than 2024, and will be graduating no later than June 2026.
Have a College Diploma, Bachelor’s Degree, or Master’s Degree by date of Employment in Business, Commerce, Management or similar program (This program does not accept MBA or PhD candidates or graduates).
Have no more than 1 year of full-time professional related work experience.
Be eligible to work in Canada without current or future needs for visa sponsorship (PR, or Canadian citizenship preferred).
Must be located in Nova Scotia, Canada, or willing to relocate.
Must be eligible for clearance and have lived in Canada for at least 5 years.
SAP is a multinational software corporation that develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. IBM is a premier SAP business partner with a large team located at our Halifax location. Since 2013, our SAP practice has nurtured the careers of our new graduates from entry-level consultants to roles in leadership positions. You will have support from multiple years of previous new graduates who have grown their careers within the IBM SAP practice and can provide mentorship. We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented SAP Technical consultant to join our team in Halifax. The SAP Practice has grown to 160+ SAP Professionals in Halifax.
An SAP Functional Consultant can expect one of the following responsibilities:
Finance:
Configure and customize SAP Finance modules like FI (Finance), CO (Controlling), and Transparent Accounting. Design and implement financial processes, workflows, and reports. Assist with cost center accounting, intercompany transactions, and profitability analysis.
Collaborate with clients to understand business requirements and design tailored SAP solutions that align with their objectives.
Create, update, and maintain technical documentation, including system specifications, functional designs, test cases, and user manuals.
Assist in training sessions, workshops, and knowledge transfer activities for clients or internal teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Stay current with SAP product developments, enhancements, and best practices to ensure continuous learning and growth.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
You can work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand requirements, and develop and support innovative applications for our highly valued customers.
You enjoy working in a team environment with team members of a diverse background and skill set along with being comfortable working on your own to complete individual assigned tasks.
You enjoy working with the public and have demonstrated excellent customer experience skills.
You have demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to communicate with multiple levels of management and executives.
You can learn new processes quickly. You enjoy problem solving and delivering innovative solutions to complex problems that address client needs.
You are great at solving problems and implementing solutions to complex issues.Knowledge of compliance regulations & Industry standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
You have basic knowledge or hands on experience in one or more of the following technology areas: Microsoft Office Suite, JIRA, Service Now, or Azure DevOps.
Exposure to SAP BTP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors and other SAP technologies is an asset.
Preferred technical and professional experience
SAP Finance Solutions Exposure: Exposure to SAP Finance solutions, including designing and configuring solutions to meet client needs, with a good understanding of and/or hands‑on experience in the system.
Techno‑Functional Solution Exposure: Exposure to techno‑functional solution expertise, utilizing business and industry knowledge, business processes to effectively integrate packaged technology solutions.
Business Process Acumen: Exposure to business processes, leveraging expertise to meet client needs and achieve comprehensive solution delivery.
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
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, y...
