Assurance Partner - Government Contracting

RSM • Washington DC, DC

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About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Executing core functions of the Partner role
• Contributing to team objectives
• Maintaining quality standards
• Supporting client service delivery
• Lead engagement teams
• Build strong executive-level relationships
• Collaborate across borders to support consistent delivery and client experience
• Contribute to practice growth
• Mentor future leaders
• Help strengthen our reputation as the first-choice advisor to middle-market clients
• Apply risk-based audit methodology, internal control frameworks, complex financial reporting
• Guide complex / multi-entity / high risk audits
• Demonstrate strong business development and strategic leadership
• Identify and advance growth opportunities
• Drive cross firm service expansion
• Shape market strategy
• Build and leverage deep local market and COI relationships to generate sustained client growth while ensuring exceptional client service delivery
• Manage stakeholder relationships
• Interact with senior client executives, boards or audit committees, firm leadership, and cross-functional teams
• Influence firm direction
• Contribute to leadership decisions
• Participate in governance or partnership-level deliberations
• Lead with strong ethical judgment and independence
• Ensure firmwide compliance with audit standards, quality expectations, and professional conduct
• Manage demanding workloads
• Adapt to client and market pressures

Benefits

• Competitive benefits and compensation package
• Flexibility in schedule

What This Job Offers

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