Financial Consulting Manager - Finance as a Service

About the role

RSM’s Finance as a Service (FaaS) practice is looking for skilled professionals to join us at the Manager level. This position will need to work to deadlines and a multitude of accounting activities, such as month end close, financial reporting, year-end audit support, and the support of budget and forecasting activities. In addition, you will have the ability to learn and efficiently use our best-in-class cloud based technology stack.

Responsibilities

• Overall day-to-day management of the accounting and finance functions of multiple clients in a shared services environment playing the Controller role of your clients
• Participate in client design sessions to analyze requirements and redesign business processes in connection with FaaS best practices in areas such as chart of account redesign, procure to pay, order to cash, month end close, record to report, etc.
• Lead, manage and coach client services representatives, associates, senior associates and supervisors
• Review client’s monthly financial statements including month over month variance analysis and / or actual to budget analysis
• Analyze and interpret financial information for client management and provide actionable insight and decision support
• Continuously identify opportunities to enhance the clients monthly operations make suggestions for process improvements
• Define and document repeatable methodologies with appropriate tools and templates that can be leveraged for future projects
• Establish engagement budgets
• Direct initial assessments, implementations and onboarding of new Finance as a Service clients
• Write service agreements and statements of work
• Participate in meetings with new client prospects and in the proposal process

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA is preferred
• Experience in a public accounting firm, consulting firm or other professional services environment preferred but not required
• Progressive experience in accounting and financial management in a corporate accounting environment, in roles such as accounting manager, assistant controller, controller, director of finance CFO
• Strong technical financial accounting (GAAP) knowledge
• Strong management accounting and operational finance knowledge
• Experience in the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function (financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis, etc.)
• Proven leadership, management and coaching skills
• Strong time-management and organizational skills with sensitivity to timeframes, budgets, and outcomes across multiple clients/projects
• Experience with automated accounting systems (i.e. Intacct, NetSuite, Blackline, Bill.com, Tallie)

Benefits

RSM offers a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life’s demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.