Staff Consultant

Ryan & Wetmore is a full-service accounting, tax, and management consulting firm, servicing the Metropolitan Washington, DC, area since 1988. We provide a proactive approach with our clients and staff in our traditional and non-traditional consulting services.

We work hard to earn our clients’ confidence by encouraging open communication year-round. Through our numerous consulting engagements, we have become trusted business advisors. We do this by balancing our objectives of keeping an unbiased perspective and being our clients’ advocate. This approach has enabled us to help clients become more efficient, more competitive, and, therefore, more profitable.

Our employees are given the autonomy and trust to work on deadline-driven client deliverables independently while sharing close relationships with their supervisors. At Ryan & Wetmore, we believe that we can only be our greatest if our team is equipped with the best tools, content with their work environment, and energized to excel.

The Finance Consultant will be a key contributor to the Consulting team which serves mid-sized enterprises across a variety of industries including information technology, construction, real estate, healthcare, government contracting, and emerging entrepreneurs. While the tasks of the Finance Consultant vary based on assigned projects, the main responsibilities will be to advise and assist clients in both optimizing their finance function and accomplishing business objectives. In this role, the Finance Consultant will spend most of their time assessing financial and business situations, developing, and presenting strategies and plans, and monitoring changes in financial status and business performance. Our ideal Finance Consultant is comfortable and confident in bridging the gap between information technology (IT) and business by using data analytics.

• Provide creative and pragmatic solutions to address complex scenarios in areas such as:
• Mergers & Acquisitions support, including services throughout the entire process from buy/sell decisions and strategies, due diligence, critical transactional elements, closing assistance, and integration activities
• Comprehensive business planning to achieve short and long-term goals
• Corporate operational assessments and process improvements
• Cost, profitability, cash, and budget management
• Financial analysis and document review to support litigation services
• Build quantitative problem-solving models and understand solution behavior to generate results and advise clients
• Assemble, update, and maintain datasets to test, query, filter, analyze, and/or report on specified elements, characteristics, behaviors, and results
• Provide financial management information by preparing advanced financial status analyses and written reports
• Communicate with clients to discuss financial and operational goals, explain proposed business plans and options, explain advantages and risks, and answer questions
• Monitor clients' financial situation by tracking changes in wealth and life circumstances; analyzing financial plan results; identifying and evaluating new financial strategies; recommending changes in goals and plans
• Update job knowledge by tracking industry-specific economic conditions; participating in educational opportunities, such as webinars; reading professional and technical publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• Confidentiality of Firm and client information is critical

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Information, Technology Management (or related quantitative field).
• 0-2 years of experience in a related position in finance, business, accounting, or consulting (academic achievement and internship experience may qualify & recent graduates encouraged to apply)
• Ideal candidates have coursework in financial management, finance, statistics, accounting, and other related business courses
• Overall understanding of the finance function roles and activities
• Technologically savvy with experience using technical software applications
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills (we work in financial services, but we still like to laugh)
• Comfortable and confident in writing both long and short formats, such as whitepapers and blog posts
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and financial systems
• Ability to solve a mixture of quantitative and qualitative problems
• Aptitude in creative problem solving
• Strong organizational skills
• A positive attitude and outstanding work ethic
• 16 days of Paid Time Off – PTO (0-5 years of employment)
• 21 days of Paid Time Off – PTO (over 5 years of employment)