Financial Consulting Manager – Finance as a Service – Not for Profit – Grant Manager

We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, inclusive culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You’ll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There’s no one like you and that’s why there’s nowhere like RSM.

RSM’s Finance and Accounting Outsourcing (FAO) practice is looking for skilled professionals to join us at the Manager level. RSM’s FAO practice blends to best of both worlds by providing candidates with all the career growth opportunities that come with working for a public accounting firm, while at the same time operating in private company environments on a daily basis. We provide accounting, technology and consulting services to private, lower middle market clients, with revenues ranging from $0 to $100 million. In other words, we are the accounting department for our clients. Our diverse industry base includes technology, life science, not-for-profit, consumer products and professional service organizations, just to name a few. 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. FAO Managers will have contact with our clients (CEO, COO, CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, etc.), as well as other client contacts including tax and professional service providers. This role oversees supervisors, senior associates, associates and client service representatives through transaction processing, month-end closing, financial reporting and budgeting/forecasting duties. You will also oversee initial assessments, implementations and on-boarding of new FAO clients. You will be responsible for managing/coaching the team to ensure that work is properly allocated and completed in a timely and accurate manner.

We operate in a team-based environment and have a proven track record of delivering exceptional value to our customers. The key attributes that will make someone successful in this role include:

• Ability to manage, coach, and motivate a team
• Assertive, collaborative, team player and desire to learn different industries and develop a Controller skill set
• Superior ability to prioritize and focus in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment
• Willingness to learn and work with emerging technology solutions such as OCR(Optical Character Recognition), AI(Artificial Intelligence) and Accounting BOTS
• Professional presentation and great communication skills as contact with clients will be extensive
• Interest in personal/professional development and advancement
• Dedication to lifelong learning, including staying abreast of best practices in financial management
• Ability to analyze and interpret – not just report – financial information to add value to client businesses as a trusted adviser
• Solid Excel skills (create tables, use formulas, pivot tables)

Responsibilities:

• Overall day-to-day management of the accounting and finance functions of multiple clients in a shared services environment playing the Controller and CFO role of your clients
• End to end Grant Management
• Participate in client design sessions to analyze requirements and redesign business processes in connection with FAO 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, supervisors and managers
• 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 client’s monthly operations make suggestions for process improvements
• Understand our technology stack and identify additional add-on processes, systems, modules, and integrations that can drive month end close efficiencies.
• 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 FAO 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
• Experience with federal government, federal government awards, grant management is required
• CPA is required
• 8+ Years experience in Accounting
• 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)
• Ideally located in Washington DC or nearby
  

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