Assurance Partner - Government Contracting

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Role Summary

RSM has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Assurance Partner to lead and grow our Government Contracting practice, serving organization across the government contracting, aerospace, and defense sectors. As an Assurance Partner, you will play a key role in advancing the firm’s strategic vision and delivering high-quality audit services to clients across a global platform. In this role, you will lead engagement teams, build strong executive-level relationships, and collaborate across borders to support consistent delivery and client experience. You will contribute to practice growth, mentor future leaders, and help strengthen our reputation as the first-choice advisor to middle-market clients. This position is ideal for a collaborative, strategic thinker who thrives in a client-service leadership role.

Job Responsibilities:
Key responsibilities as outlined in the job summary include executing core functions of the Partner role, contributing to team objectives, maintaining quality standards, and supporting client service delivery.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field.
• Active CPA in state of residence (or equivalent professional credential) required.
• 13+ years of progressive public accounting / external audit or assurance experience, including significant experience leading audit engagements of increasing complexity and size.
• Proven track record of building and maintaining a substantial client portfolio, including bringing in new business, retaining clients, and ensuring engagement profitability and growth.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills, with success managing multiple large or complex audit portfolios, supervising senior leadership teams, and guiding firm-wide talent development and staffing strategies.
• Deep technical mastery of accounting and auditing standards including US GAAP, US GAAS or other relevant regulatory standards. Ability to apply risk-based audit methodology, internal control frameworks, complex financial reporting, and capacity to guide complex / multi-entity / high risk audits.
• Demonstrates strong business development and strategic leadership, identifying and advancing growth opportunities, driving cross firm service expansion, and shaping market strategy. Builds and leverages deep local market and COI relationships to generate sustained client growth while ensuring exceptional client service delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and relationship-building skills, able to interact with senior client executives, boards or audit committees, firm leadership, and cross-functional teams.
• Strategic thinking and firm-wide vision, with ability to influence firm direction, contribute to leadership decisions, and participate in governance or partnership-level deliberations.
• Leads with strong ethical judgment and independence, ensuring firmwide compliance with audit standards, quality expectations, and professional conduct.
• Flexibility to travel, manage demanding workloads, and adapt to client and market pressures.

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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