About the Role
RSM's Consulting team brings together diverse advisory experts to deliver six core solutions, including Business Transformation. The Finance Transformation team, within Business Transformation, partners with CFOs to design and implement future-ready Finance operating models, elevating teams, enhancing effectiveness, and modernizing digital footprints. This role is crucial for supporting ambitious growth plans and enhancing the firm's consulting capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Establish trust and credibility quickly to build effective client relationships.
- Collaborate with clients and colleagues, exchanging ideas to find the best solutions.
- Identify, analyze, and solve client business challenges.
- Contribute to client proposals and presentations.
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients.
- Manage a team and juggle multiple deadlines.
- Lead engagements, plan and facilitate workshops to confirm objectives and requirements.
- Identify process gaps, analyze impact, and propose solutions.
- Work in cross-functional project teams.
- Manage stakeholders and drive change in complex environments.
- Coach more junior team members.
Requirements
- Finance qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT etc).
- Management & PQE experience with an established portfolio of work experience, ideally within a professional services environment.
- Strong academic record, preferably with a relevant or business-focused degree (such as finance, accounting, business management or data analytics).
- Proven experience in finance transformation projects, including process redesign, system implementation and/or operating model development.
- Experience in designing and implementing Finance Target Operating Models, including organizational design, service delivery models and/or governance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of finance processes (e.g. FP&A, R2R, P2P, and O2C).
- Excellent project management skills, with a strong track record of delivering transformation initiatives on time and within budget.
- Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills.
- Strong client relationship management skills.
- Must be a team player, able to work in virtual teams and independently.
- Proactive, organised, and self-motivated.
- High proficiency in MS Office (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint).
- Demonstrate and operate in line with RSM’s core values of excellence, teamwork, integrity, respect, and stewardship.
- Experience of managing a team and coaching more junior team members.
- Experience of working with (or knowledge of or interest in) ERP platforms and other technology solutions (e.g. Alteryx).
- Experience of proposal writing and business development.
- Exposure to different methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM etc.).
- Hands-on experience with different finance technology platforms (e.g. SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Blackline and/or Anaplan).
- Knowledge of change management principles and techniques.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Skills
- Problem-solving
- Creative thinking
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Presentation
- Project management
- Client relationship management
- Teamwork
- Organization
- Proactiveness
- Inquisitiveness
- Analytical skills
- Data interpretation
- Process redesign
- System implementation
- Operating model development
- Finance process understanding
- Stakeholder management
- Change management
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Management experience
- PQE experience
Education Level
- Finance qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT etc)
- Relevant or business-focused degree (such as finance, accounting, business management or data analytics)
Benefits
- 27 Days Holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days)
- Lifestyle, Health, and Wellbeing benefits
- Financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, electric car scheme and access to a virtual GP
- Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our inhouse Talent Development team
About the Company
- RSM is one of the world's largest networks of audit, tax and consulting firms, delivering big ideas and premium service to help middle-market businesses thrive.
- RSM has a clear goal to become the premium adviser to the middle market, globally.
- The consulting team brings together diverse advisory experts to deliver six core solutions: business transformation, forensic, deal services, restructuring, finance function support, and risk and governance.
- RSM is committed to enhancing its six solutions, expanding and developing its team of expert consultants, embracing a digital-first approach, strengthening its global presence, and building strong client relationships.
Equal Opportunity
- At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work.
- We aim to achieve diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client's needs.
- Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work.
- We're working together to ensure our firm's principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.
