**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** At IBM, we know technology. But technology is only as good as the results it delivers. Are you interested and adept in application development methodology and tools? The IBM Client Innovation Centre CIC occupies a unique position in the IT marketplace - at the intersection of business and technology. In this role, you'll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), 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. 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. As an Associate Functional Business Applications Consultant, you will be able to: * Work with business teams to understand business requirements and translate them into functional specifications. * Assist in configuring Enterprise Resource Plannning (ERP) applications (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or Maximo) to meet business needs * Work with business users to gather and analyze requirements related to ERP modules. * Support day-to-day operations and resolve functional issues within ERP systems. * Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, responding to their queries and concerns in a timely and professional manner. * Work closely with other teams (Business and Technical) to ensure seamless delivery of projects and services. * Participate in system implementations, rollouts, and enhancement projects * Support internal audits and compliance initiatives related to ERP systems. * Stay current with product developments, enhancements, and best practices to ensure continuous learning and growth. **Required technical and professional expertise** Core Competencies: * Exposure or basic understanding of one core business area (e.g., Finance, Material Management, Sales and Distribution, Logistics/Procurement) *Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, accounting, commerce, HR, business technical management * Work 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. * Able to learn new processes. * Able to work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers. You have strong excel skills and enjoy making meaningful evaluations of a given set of data tables, excel files etc. * Work 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. * Awareness 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, DevOps. Additional Skills: * Familiarity with agile methods and scrum frameworks * You enjoy working with the public and have demonstrated excellent customer experience skills. You will have demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to communicate with multiple levels of management and executives. * Good at solving problems, debugging, troubleshooting, designing and implementing solutions to complex functional issues. Soft Skills: *Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders, including technical and non-technical team members. * Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced, team-based consulting environment. * Curiosity, adaptability, and a strong desire to build technical and functional expertise. * Critical thinking, resourcefulness, growth mindset IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.