Deal Services- Value Acceleration Solutions Associate- Fall 2027

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Deal Services – Value Acceleration Solutions Team

Position Summary:

RSM is seeking an Associate for its Value Acceleration Solutions (VAS) team within its rapidly growing Deal Services practice. The Deal Services practice offers our clients end-to-end transaction support, from deal strategy and readiness through diligence, execution, and integration.

The VAS team helps clients identify, quantify, and validate revenue and cost synergies to strengthen deal rationale and improve transaction competitiveness and helps clients manage operational disruption, address stranded costs to align people, processes and systems, and realize the value formulated in the deal thesis. Team members across the deal lifecycle with RSM consultants from other teams and benefit from extensive exposure to senior investment professionals, company executives, and firm leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Support private equity and corporate clients with analysis of potential revenue synergies, cost synergies, and cost takeout opportunities related to acquisitions and integrations
• Analyze and synthesize complex data to develop concise, decision-ready outputs that support synergy and cost takeout quantification
• Assess businesses being carved out from larger enterprises to understand current operating structures, headcount, costs, and separation implications
• Develop standalone headcount and cost models across functional areas to inform integration, separation, and value realization planning
• Leverage research, benchmarking tools, and transaction experience to support analyses in a fast-paced, value-driven deal environment
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans for post-merger integration and separation management office workstreams, including milestones, dependencies, owners, and timelines
• Track workstream progress against established plans, identify risks, issues, and decision points, and support timely escalation to project leadership
• Maintain recurring status materials, including action item trackers, initiative logs, milestone updates, and leadership reporting for integration and separation programs
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to gather updates, validate deliverables, and promote alignment across workstreams during planning and execution of integrations and separations

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Understanding of core corporate functions and related revenue, cost, and operational performance drivers
• Ability to travel locally and nationally up to 40%, with access to reliable transportation as needed
• Minimum 3.5 GPA preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  
• Ability to work as an effective member of a team 
• Motivated to work in a fast-paced environment 
• Strong computer skills, including MS Office (primarily excel and powerpoint) 
• Client focused 

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life’s demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.

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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RSM does not intend to hire entry-level candidates who require sponsorship now or in the future. This includes individuals who will one day request or require RSM to file or complete immigration-related forms or prepare letters on their behalf in order for them to obtain or continue their work authorization.

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At RSM, an employee’s pay at any point in their career is intended to reflect their experiences, performance, and skills for their current role. The salary range (or starting rate for interns and associates) for this role represents numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, location, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.

Compensation Range: $73,920 - $88,200