Assurance Managing Director - Life Sciences

RSM • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Audit / Assurance Managing Director provides strategic leadership across multiple audit engagements and client portfolios, ensuring high-quality delivery and alignment with professional standards. This role oversees engagement execution, guides senior leaders and engagement teams, maintains trusted client relationships, drives practice growth, influences senior stakeholders, and contributes to operational strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field.
• 13+ years of public accounting / external audit or assurance experience, with progressive responsibility.
• Proven experience leading complex audit engagements from planning through issuance, including oversight of engagement teams, timelines, budgets, and audit quality.
• Advanced technical proficiency in US GAAP, US GAAS, and other applicable professional and regulatory standards.
• Demonstrated ability to apply professional judgment, assess audit risk, and ensure audit quality, compliance, and independence.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, coaching, and developing Managers and Senior Managers.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder-management skills, capable of interacting with senior clients, executive leadership, and internal teams on audit strategy, issues, and deliverables.
• Active CPA (or equivalent certification) required.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work extended or non standard hours during peak periods to meet client, project, or firm business needs.
• Ability to maintain regular onsite presence at firm offices and client locations and travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership across multiple audit engagements and client portfolios, ensuring high-quality delivery and alignment with professional standards.
• Oversees engagement execution.
• Guides senior leaders and engagement teams.
• Maintains trusted client relationships.
• Drives practice growth.
• Influences senior stakeholders.
• Contributes to operational strategy.
• 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.
• Represents the firm with professionalism and credibility in external and internal settings.
• Operates with a high level of judgment and minimal supervision on complex or high risk engagements.
• Understands firm risk management, regulatory expectations, and quality control standards.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits and compensation package
• Flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life’s demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager