Assistant Manager - Business Consulting

RSM UK; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

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About RSM

Consulting brings together multiple teams across Transactions, Risk & Consulting, ABA, and Outsourcing to provide client-centric solutions for RSM’s current and future clients within the middle market. Our Consulting team has a major role to play in driving forward the growth of the firm with over 1,700 people delivering almost £200m revenue.

At the heart of Consulting are the six solutions we offer our clients: business transformation, deal services, finance function support, risk and governance, forensic and investigation services, and restructuring. Our solutions create an enhanced tailored approach to support our clients in achieving their strategic goals and empower our people to make an impact and develop their own unique career path.

Here at RSM, we work collaboratively with our clients to help them overcome performance challenges or set them up to successfully deliver their strategic objectives. We are guided by good practice principles, and the latest technologies, but never constrained by them. At our core we are critical-thinkers, problem-solvers and visionaries.

Partnering with leading global software solution providers, RSM’s Consulting Service helps our clients improve business operations, gain efficiencies and insight by using the right cloud-based solutions aligned to business needs.

We help our clients select the right software solution to optimise business processes and gain real-time visibility of their finance, inventory, supply chain, order management, sales and HR. Integrated systems remove silos, providing greater insights to make informed decisions through their Business Transformation.

About the Team

RSM’s Business Consulting team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to join the eighth largest provider of Audit, Tax and Consulting services to entrepreneurial growth-focused organisations globally.

Our Business Consulting practice, as part of our broader Business Transformation client offering, currently consists of three teams:

1. Digital Finance team working with clients to understand how their finance functions work, assisting them to articulate what ‘good’ looks like for them and how they can get there. We work with our clients to ensure they have a Finance function that reflects and supports their vision. We believe in designing a Finance function in which people are key, and technology is the enabler.
2. Technology team supporting clients throughout their digital transformation journey from defining a digital strategy and roadmap, creating a business case, selecting the right software, documenting user stories, to managing and assuring projects.
3. Data analytics and insights team working with clients to help them understand their level of data analytics maturity and to develop a data analytics strategy that will guide them in achieving their desired level of maturity. We work with clients to identify KPIs and metrics they can use to track progress against their strategic objectives and to assess the quality of their data needed for those KPIs and metrics.

About the role

As part of the team, you will be working closely with clients, and it is therefore critical that you can establish trust and credibility quickly to build effective relationships.

It goes without saying that you are a team player, have a ‘can do’ attitude and understand that the best solutions come from collaboration and exchange of ideas.

You will be a problem solver, creative thinker, and self-starter, who is organised, proactive and inquisitive. Ideally, you will already have been involved in Transformation projects and can demonstrate the value delivered to organisations with which you’ve worked. You should be comfortable in managing a team and juggling multiple deadlines.

You will contribute to client proposals and presentations and our clients will see you as a trusted advisor to work closely with them in identifying, analysing, and solving their business challenges.

In exchange, we offer exciting client opportunities, a clear and concise career development path, and promotion opportunities for those with the drive and the commitment to succeed in a dynamic environment, whilst delivering exceptional service to clients and becoming part of a high performing team.

Requirements

Essential

• Strong academic record: preferably with a relevant or business-focused degree (such as business, data analytics, computer science, or information systems) degree
• An established portfolio of work experience, post qualification, ideally within a professional services environment
• Support Managers with client evaluations of Business Intelligence solutions providing information and demonstrations to help them assess fit for their business
• Support Managers with scope the implementation services required to help clients achieve their objectives
• Build reports, dashboards and scorecards using a variety of tools
• Able to interact effectively with internal and external resources, at all organisational levels
• Ability to meet deadlines and work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong written & oral communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrate the ability to understand and assess client requirements/issues, consider and analyse the impact and propose solutions to address these
• Must be a team player, able to work in virtual teams and independently
• Proactive, organised, and self-motivated
• High proficiency in MS Office including, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and SharePoint
• Demonstrate and operate in line with RSM’s core values of excellence, teamwork, integrity, respect, and stewardship
  

Desirable

• Finance qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT)
• Understanding of what Finance process design ‘good looks like’
• Experience of working on Finance transformation projects
• Experience with methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma, Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall etc.)
• Experience of facilitating workshops
• Knowledge and experience of Finance process design
• Experience in formal data quality assessments
• Experience in defining and managing master data and business metadata
• Experience with Power BI for data modelling and creating reports and visualisations
• Knowledge of Alteryx
• Knowledge of data analysis programming languages e.g. R, Python
• Basic understanding of data warehousing, ETL processes and architectural designs
• Understanding of Microsoft business intelligence platforms, including SQL Server Databases, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Utilities, Azure Data Resources, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Bricks and Azure Analysis Services
• Knowledge of Tableau & QlikView / Qlik Sense
• Train end users and system administrators
• Provide clients with ongoing technical support and troubleshooting

For internal staff, this role is also available on a secondment basis

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