Finance Transformation Associate Director

As one of the world's largest networks of audit, tax and consulting firms, RSM delivers big ideas and premium service to help middle-market businesses thrive. We are a fast-growing firm with big ambitions - we have a clear goal to become the premium adviser to the middle market, globally. This vision touches everything we do, motivating and inspiring us to become better every day. If you are looking for a firm where you can build a future and make an impact, then RSM is the place for you.

Make an Impact at RSM UK

At RSM, our consulting team brings together diverse advisory experts to deliver our six core solutions: business transformation, forensic, deal services, restructuring, finance function support, and risk and governance.

Our solutions are designed to address the unique needs, challenges, and opportunities our clients face as they strive to achieve their aspirations and organisational goals. Whether it’s supporting global expansion, developing acquisition strategies, facilitating private equity investments, or collaborating with boards to manage risk and governance, our consulting experts work as one cohesive team. We prioritise simplicity, providing data-driven insights, value-added assurance, and high-quality execution to empower our clients in building sustainable, future-fit businesses.

It’s an exciting time to join our consulting team, as we embark on ambitious growth plans that promise to create diverse career opportunities. We are committed to enhancing our six solutions, expanding and developing our team of expert consultants, embracing a digital-first approach, strengthening our global presence, and building strong client relationships.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Playing a critical role in helping our clients leverage the latest digital technologies and best practices to modernise their finance function and achieve business goals.
• Leading the team to deliver a high-quality service for our clients.
• Facilitating client workshops to gain an understanding of how their finance function operates on a day-to-day basis.
• Identifying relevant and practical improvement initiatives to help clients modernise their finance function and help support the delivery of their strategic vision.
• Leading and managing Finance Transformation projects including Business Development

What we are looking for:

You should be able to demonstrate that you can lead and manage finance transformation projects, have a strong understanding of finance process design, and evidence that you have delivered value to the organisations you’ve worked with previously.

We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Here’s what we’re looking for in our ideal candidate:

• [Desirable] Finance qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT etc)
• Significant PQE experience with an established portfolio of work experience, ideally within a professional services environment and/or a strong mix of inhouse business experience and consulting experience
• Experience in leading large-scale finance transformation projects, including process redesign, technology implementations (e.g. ERP upgrades, automation tools), and/or operating model redesign.
• Experience in designing and implementing Finance Target Operating Models, including organisational design, service delivery models and/or governance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of finance process and what ‘good looks like’ across a number of these with real depth in a couple at least (e.g. across financial planning & analysis (FP&A), record-to-report (R2R), procure-to-pay (P2P), and order-to-cash (O2C))
• Confident in leading engagements, planning and facilitating workshops to confirm objectives and requirements, identifying processes gaps, and analyse the impact and propose solutions to address these

What we can offer you:

We recognise that our people are our most important assets. That’s why we offer a flexible reward and benefits package that will help you have fulfilling experience, both in and out of work.

• Hybrid and flexible working.
• 27 days holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days).
• Lifestyle, health, and wellbeing including 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.

Diversity and Inclusion at RSM

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. Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same 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. That's why we're working together to ensure our firm's principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.
At RSM we work hard to create an environment where our people can make a difference - to themselves, their career, their teams, and to the success of our firm and clients. We support all our people to work flexibly, to manage their family and other responsibilities alongside their work commitments; we believe this is key to achieving an inspiring and fulfilling working environment.