RSM US US | Assurance Partner - Life Sciences

Job responsibilities

• As an Assurance Partner, you will lead audit and assurance client relationships for the Assurance line of business while advancing quality, growth, and consistent delivery.
• This role focuses on leading engagement teams, managing complex audit portfolios, and serving as a trusted advisor to clients and firm leaders.
• You’ll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally.
• You will be provided with opportunities to work on projects in RSM offices in biotech hubs across the country.
• You will also get exposure to various types of entities within the industry, ranging from companies in the clinical R&D phase to large public biopharma’s.
• Serve as audit engagement leader and/or client service coordinator, managing required financial statements, related disclosures, and other client deliverables.
• Manage multiple engagements, oversee engagement status, and maintain milestones for complex audit and assurance projects.
• Identify technical accounting and auditing matters early, assess impact, and coordinate with firm specialists as needed.
• Review work product, communicate audit status to clients, and assess resources needed for project completion.
• Maintain contact with clients throughout the year to build deeper relationships and better understand client goals and strategies.
• Manage profitability, billing, collections, engagement economics, and operational discipline consistent with firm expectations.
• Assess risk and design and communicate audit procedures to engagement teams.
• Develop external relationships and centers of influence to support business growth and brand presence.
• Provide insightful business advice and present as a trusted business advisor to clients and stakeholders.
• Develop others within the firm through training, career development, coaching, and participation in firm initiatives.
• Maintain professional development through ongoing education and stay current on relevant standards, firm policies, and quality expectations.
• Lead with an enterprise mindset, aligning decisions to long-term firm value, cultural stewardship, and client outcomes.
• Use digital quality enablers, data, and global delivery resources where appropriate to support consistent, efficient, high-quality outcomes.
• Builds and leverages deep local market and COI relationships to generate sustained client growth while ensuring exceptional client service delivery.
• Leads with strong ethical judgment and independence, ensuring firmwide compliance with audit standards, quality expectations, and professional conduct.

Minimum qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• RSM will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records.

RSM US US

RSM US US is an employer hiring in India (sector: Audit / Consulting / Advisory). In its own words: "RSM US LLP is the leading U.S."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Chicago, Boston, New York and Dallas.

• Industry: Audit / Consulting / Advisory