Global Chief Financial Officer

RSM US LLP•Miami, FL

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Chief Financial Officer is a strategic, growth-focused leader responsible for working closely with the CEO, executive leadership team, and firm leaders to advance the firm’s strategy, support sustainable growth, and strengthen the business for the future. The position balances near-term performance with long-term value creation and helps shape the firm’s direction across organic growth, geographic expansion, operational transformation, and mergers and acquisitions. The firm is a global professional services organization with capabilities across assurance, tax, consulting, transaction advisory, and related services. It is focused on expanding international capabilities, strengthening cross-border collaboration, and evaluating strategic alternatives that may include new capital formation, a public offering, and acquisitions. The CFO will strengthen the finance function, support growth, and help position the firm for its next phase of development. The role leads the global finance organization and its controllership, planning and analysis, treasury, tax, audit, investor readiness, and broader financial operations. It also drives finance transformation, improves performance management and decision-making across a complex global organization, leads strategic finance and transaction activity, supports public-company readiness, and develops finance leaders across regions.

Requirements

Prior experience as a public-company or large-scale enterprise CFO, or in a similarly broad and complex senior finance leadership role.
Strong record of helping organizations scale through growth, transformation, and strategic change.
Experience working across global markets and partnering effectively with regional or country finance leaders in a matrixed environment.
Demonstrated success in capital markets, treasury, balance sheet management, and investor-facing environments.
Meaningful M&A experience, including transaction execution, financing, integration, and value capture.
Track record of improving financial and operational performance through modernization, disciplined execution, and strong leadership.
High integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to lead calmly and decisively under pressure.

Nice To Haves

Experience with IPO preparation or other forms of public-company readiness is highly desirable.
Experience in complex professional services, partnership-influenced, or multi-stakeholder business models is a plus.

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO, executive leadership team, and firm leaders in defining and executing growth strategy across markets, capabilities, and geographies.
Lead the global finance organization, including controllership, planning and analysis, treasury, tax, audit, investor readiness, and broader financial operations.
Strengthen financial discipline and public-company readiness, including controls, reporting processes, governance, forecasting rigor, and stakeholder communications for potential future capital-markets activity.
Drive enterprise-wide finance transformation, including simplification, standardization, shared services or centers of excellence where appropriate, and technology adoption to improve insight, efficiency, and decision support.
Partner with firm leaders and regional finance teams to improve performance management, resource allocation, and business decision-making across a complex global organization.
Lead capital structure planning, capital allocation, liquidity management, and financing decisions to support growth and resilience.
Evaluate, execute, and integrate acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions.
Help prepare the company for strategic alternatives, including private capital activity, IPO readiness, and broader market-facing financial leadership.
Build and develop a strong global finance leadership bench, fostering high standards, accountability, collaboration, and succession strength across regions.