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Corporate finance - get the career you want at RSM
Our graduate apprenticeship programme within the Private Equity Coverage and Deal Origination team will give you all the skills and support you need to unlock a future in corporate finance that’s packed with opportunities and new experiences. You’ll enjoy a fast-tracked business career that recognises your potential and rewards your ambition.
When you join our team, you’ll enjoy a powerful combination of on-the-job learning and structured training – not to mention an impressive client list to work with. You’ll discover a culture that nurtures individuality and an environment where everyone is supported to reach their potential. With us, you’ll always be moving forward.
What does our Private Equity Coverage and Deal Origination (CAO) team do?
The Deal Origination team is a specialist business development function within RSM’s Corporate Finance department that supports the identification and generation of new business opportunities for the firm. The core responsibility is to identify privately owned businesses that have the potential to be a future M&A client of the firm. The Deal Origination team uses a thematic approach to assessing potential targets and is responsible for approaching and building relationships with prospects. The main objective is to grow RSM’s client base by building and maintaining relationships with senior decision-makers. We are a small, relationship-driven team and you will be exposed to senior colleagues, a varied workload and a high level of responsibility.
What can you expect?
You will be working closely with the wider Deal Origination team and you will provide research, analysis and support to the team and its strategy.
Key responsibilities
- Identification of prospective M&A deal clients through analysing historical financial information and sectortrends
- Preparation of documentation including company profiles, sector insight summaries and marketing materials
- Support team members with client/target meeting preparation and taking meeting minutes
- Manage and track opportunities pipeline using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software
What we look for
We’re on the lookout for organised graduates with a ‘can-do’ attitude who are prepared to work hard and take on high levels of responsibility. We also look for team players who enjoy interacting with others and are curious about how businesses work. You’ll be working on multiple projects at the same time, so time management and organisational skills are key. Confidence with numbers and business awareness is a must, but you’ll also need excellent communication skills and be able to forge strong working relationships with people from all backgrounds. Competency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint is essential.
If that sounds like you, we know you’ll enjoy being part of our team.
Locations
Our vacancies are subject to change as we recruit on a rolling basis.
For those who perform well across all of the tasks at our virtual assessment centre, should your first geographic preference be unavailable, you will be offered a role in one of our specialist corporate teams in one of our hubs. You may also potentially be offered a role in another department. This would always be discussed with you in the first instance.
Our specialist corporate finance hubs are across the country in our Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gatwick, Leeds, London, Manchester, Reading, and Southampton offices.
Flexible working
At RSM we work hard to create an environment where our people can make a difference - to themselves, their career, their teams, and to the success of our firm and clients. We support all our people to work flexibly, to manage their family and other responsibilities alongside their work commitments; we believe this is key to achieving an inspiring and fulfilling working environment.
Diversity and inclusion at RSM
At RSM, inclusion and diversity are central to our values. We have an authentic focus on intentional inclusion, enabling our people to feel they can bring their whole self to work and ensuring everyone feels supported, respected and confident to make a valuable contribution.
To find out more, please visit our diversity and inclusion page on our careers website.
Our recruitment process
Please note, for those who perform well throughout our assessment process, should your first preference be unavailable, you could potentially be offered a role in another location or department. This would always be discussed with you in this instance.
RSM will only take one application into consideration per recruitment cycle. We do not accept multiple applications to different vacancies.
