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The Global Chief Financial Officer will be a strategic, growth-focused leader who brings strong financial discipline, sound judgment, and global operating experience. This leader will work closely with the CEO, executive leadership team, and firm leaders to help advance the firm’s strategy, support sustainable growth, and strengthen the business for the future. The role calls for a CFO who can balance near-term performance with long-term value creation while helping shape the firm’s direction across organic growth, geographic expansion, operational transformation, and M&A.

The firm is a scaled, market-leading professional services organization with broad capabilities across assurance, tax, consulting, transaction advisory, and related services. Operating on a global platform, the business is focused on expanding its international capabilities, strengthening cross-border collaboration, and evaluating strategic alternatives that may include new capital formation, a public offering, and acquisitions. In this context, the CFO will play a critical role in strengthening the finance function, supporting growth, and helping position the firm for its next phase of development.

Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO, executive leadership team, and firm leaders, helping define and execute the firm’s growth strategy across markets, capabilities, and geographies.

• Lead the global finance organization, with accountability for controllership, planning and analysis, treasury, tax, audit, investor readiness, and broader financial operations.

• Strengthen financial discipline and public-company readiness, including controls, reporting processes, governance, forecasting rigor, and stakeholder communications appropriate for future capital-markets activity.

• Drive enterprise-wide finance transformation, including simplification, standardization, shared services or centers of excellence where appropriate, and the use of technology to improve insight, efficiency, and decision support.

• Partner with firm leaders and regional finance teams to improve performance management, resource allocation, and business decision-making across a complex global organization.

• Lead strategic finance activities including capital structure planning, capital allocation, liquidity management, and financing decisions in a way that supports both growth and resilience.

• Play a central role in evaluating, executing, and integrating acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions.

• Help prepare the company for a range of strategic alternatives, including private capital activity, IPO readiness, and broader market-facing financial leadership.

• Build and develop a strong global finance leadership bench, fostering high standards, accountability, collaboration, and succession strength across regions.

Candidate Profile

• Prior experience as a public-company or large-scale enterprise CFO, or in a similarly broad and complex senior finance leadership role.

• Strong record of helping organizations scale through growth, transformation, and strategic change.

• Experience working across global markets and partnering effectively with regional or country finance leaders in a matrixed environment.

• Demonstrated success in capital markets, treasury, balance sheet management, and investor-facing environments.

• Meaningful M&A experience, including transaction execution, financing, integration, and value capture.

• Track record of improving financial and operational performance through modernization, disciplined execution, and strong leadership.

• Experience with IPO preparation or other forms of public-company readiness is highly desirable.

• Experience in complex professional services, partnership-influenced, or multi-stakeholder business models is a plus.

• High integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to lead calmly and decisively under pressure.

Leadership Attributes

The ideal candidate is a respected finance leader who combines strategic range with operational depth. They should be able to engage credibly with boards, investors, and business leaders, while also building strong teams and driving practical execution. This person will bring a growth mindset, a global perspective, and the ability to translate financial rigor into business momentum.

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.

We believe flexibility and in-person connection both play an important role in how we work and grow. Most roles at RSM follow a hybrid workstyle, which means team members are aligned to an RSM office and come together in person when it best supports clients, teams, development or relationship-building. Some roles may be virtual or primarily on-site based on role requirements, team priorities and client needs.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment as RSM does not tolerate discrimination and/or harassment based on race; color; creed; sincerely held religious beliefs, practices or observances; sex (including pregnancy or disabilities related to nursing); gender; sexual orientation; HIV Status; national origin; ancestry; familial or marital status; age; physical or mental disability; citizenship; political affiliation; medical condition (including family and medical leave); domestic violence victim status; past, current or prospective service in the US uniformed service; US Military/Veteran status; pre-disposing genetic characteristics or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

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RSM does not intend to hire entry level candidates who will require sponsorship now OR in the future (i.e. F-1 visa holders). If you are a recent U.S. college / university graduate possessing 1-2 years of progressive and relevant work experience in a same or similar role to the one for which you are applying, excluding internships, you may be eligible for hire as an experienced associate.

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At RSM, an employee’s pay at any point in their career is intended to reflect their experiences, performance, and skills for their current role. The salary range (or starting rate for interns and associates) for this role represents numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, location, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.