Valuations Executive (ACA) Graduate London August 2023

Our graduate apprenticeship programme within the valuations 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 valuations team do?

Our team is one of the most active corporate finance advisers in the UK, advising on more than 1,000 deals in the past five years. Our national network is broadly split into five distinct teams, one of which is our project finance, modelling and valuations team.

The valuations team provides independent and insightful valuation advice to clients in the UK mid-market, with a focus on AIM listed Plcs and PE-backed private companies. The advice can be relied upon by our clients for a variety of purposes – from straight commercial transactions, through corporate restructurings, tax planning, financial reporting, and expert witness work in a dispute scenario.

What can you expect?

At RSM, you’ll be a key member of the valuations and wider corporate finance team from day one. You’ll get the chance to take on a lot of responsibility, gaining practical experience that will help you kick-start your future career.

A career in the team will give you the chance to understand the key drivers of businesses. In this fast-paced role, you’ll be working on live projects from day one.

You’ll learn how to analyse the drivers of value in businesses and prepare valuation reports for a wide variety of clients, including listed multinationals, financial institutions and funds, central government departments, owner-managed businesses and leading charities. You will also get the chance to manage client projects, win new business and help develop best-practice valuation tools. This hands-on experience is invaluable as you take the next steps in your career.

We expect the successful candidate for this role to spend most of their time focussed on valuation projects and developing their valuations specialism, however, the role sits within the project finance, modelling and valuations team so you may be required to support the wider team on project finance and modelling projects from time-to-time.

At RSM, you’ll benefit from on-the-job training from more senior members of the team and gain access to our internal training courses that will help you develop in the role, including courses to teach you valuations and corporate finance specific skills. These residential courses give you the opportunity to interact with your peers and learn directly from service line experts within our departments.

When you join this team, you’ll work towards the ACA qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW), or your Chartered Accountancy (CA) qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) or with Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI).

What we look for

We’re on the lookout for 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. Valuations is growing quickly and we are looking to hire commercially focused and ambitious candidates to continue to drive growth forward.

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.

Our Recruitment Process

RSM will only take one application into consideration per recruitment cycle. We do not accept multiple applications to different vacancies.

Minimum Qualifications