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

Participate in a consulting project or strategic initiative and experience firsthand how we help transform clients' businesses through technology, innovation, and effective program delivery.

Focus on our clients' technical, business, and user needs to co-create solutions that deliver measurable value and business outcomes.

Support project and program management activities including planning, stakeholder engagement, status tracking, risk and dependency management, governance, and delivery coordination.

Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions while balancing scope, schedule, quality, and stakeholder expectations.

Develop an understanding of our clients' future-state goals, operating models, and business processes, then help define the roadmap, workstreams, and leading technologies required to achieve them.

Learn about a client's industry, tackle new challenges, and understand how business strategy, operations, and technology intersect to create value.

Contribute to workshops, requirement-gathering sessions, solution design discussions, and project governance forums while developing consulting and leadership skills.

Join our IBM North America intern community and connect with other IBMers through networking events, team activities, mentoring opportunities, and career development programs.

Build foundational skills in leadership, communication, problem-solving, and project delivery that will prepare you for future consulting and program management roles.

This position resides in Toronto and is a 4 months work term commencing in January 2027. All applicants must be eligible to work full-time in Canada and enrolled full-time in an eligible post‑secondary program. It is mandatory that applicants return to full-time studies upon completion of the work term. Candidates pursuing Bachelor's or Master's degrees are eligible. MBA and PhD candidates are not eligible for this opportunity.

Required education High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and skilled expertise

Has experience with both business and technology.





Can understand clients’ needs and challenges and apply creative and logical approaches to identify solutions.

Demonstrate quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights.

Can work on multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands.

Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply by listening actively and conveying difficult messages in a positive manner.

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and work effectively with individuals, strengthening relationships to achieve win‑win solutions.

Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of tools.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with banking, payments, or digital assets.

A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view.

Can translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to adapt, with willingness to readily take ownership of tasks and problems.

Have initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills.

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, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full‑time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job‑related skills and experience for this position.

Job Title IBM Payments Centre Strategy and Business Consultant Intern (January 2027 - 4 Months - Toronto)

City / Township / Village Toronto

State / Province Country

Canada Work arrangement Hybrid

Area of work Consulting

Employment type Intern (Fixed Term)

Contract type Fixed Term - Short Term

Projected Minimum Salary per year 57,886.40

Projected Maximum Salary per year 89,294.40

Position type Internship

Up to 20% or 1 day a week Shift General (daytime)

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