Junior Business Development Specialist

We are looking for a motivated, detail-oriented Business Development Specialist to join our Global Compliance and Reporting (GCR) team, with a focus on proposals and pricing for multinational clients. In this role you'll help us win and mobilise complex, cross-border accounting, tax, and compliance engagements — coordinating proposals and RFPs, building and quality-checking fee models, and gathering input from country teams and technical experts across our network.

It's an ideal role for someone with a background in business development, project coordination, procurement, or finance — and a genuine interest in how global solutions are scoped, priced, and won. A feel for numbers helps, but curiosity and organisation matter just as much.

We're always looking ahead — for you, our clients and the communities we're part of. Together, we grow, belong and impact.

We'll support you to learn, explore, and grow as you take this journey with us. Here, you'll feel safe to share bold ideas and unique perspectives. After all, success comes from working together. At Forvis Mazars, you'll belong to your local team, gain global experience and have an impact — now and in the future.

Support the pursuit and mobilisation of global GCR engagements: coordinate proposal and RFP activity, help build and sense-check multi-country fee models, keep bid documentation and governance on track, and ensure alignment across countries and service lines — so we present clear, accurate, and commercially sound proposals to multinational clients.

• Coordinate proposals and RFPs — manage the preparation and submission of commercial proposals and RFP/RFQ responses for multinational clients, tailoring content to each client's requirements.
• Consolidate country and technical input — gather and align contributions from local country teams and technical experts across service lines (accounting, tax, compliance, company secretarial), tracking requirements, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Support fee models and pricing — help build and quality-control multi-entity, multi-currency fee workbooks, checking figures, FX assumptions, and totals for accuracy and internal consistency.
• Produce client-ready materials — prepare clear, high-quality proposal documents and internal presentations, keeping brand, structure, and messaging consistent.
• Keep pursuits organised — maintain proposal content, entity registers, assumptions logs, and shared templates so material is accurate, current, and reusable.
• Manage governance steps — support NDA, global conflict-check, and independence procedures, tracking documentation and coordinating with the relevant stakeholders.
• Be the communication hub — consolidate questions and responses between local offices, clients, and pursuit leads throughout the tender process.
• Track timelines and pipeline — monitor pursuit milestones and pipeline status, follow up on pending actions, and help ensure key deadlines are met.
• Support handover and learning — help transition won engagements to delivery teams and capture feedback and lessons learned to improve future proposals.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Project Management, Supply Chain/Procurement, or a related field.
• 2–3 years of experience in business development, bid/proposal management, project coordination, or procurement — exposure to a professional services, finance, or Big Four environment is a plus.
• A feel for numbers is a plus — comfort reading and sense-checking fee models and multi-currency figures, or a real willingness to build that skill quickly. A basic grasp of the services we sell (accounting, tax, statutory reporting, compliance, company secretarial) can be developed on the job.
• Confident with Excel (fee workbooks, formulas, cross-checks), plus Word and PowerPoint; experience with CRM or proposal-management tools is a plus.
• Basic-to-good understanding of the RFP/tender process, with a real interest in developing proposal-management expertise.
• Strong project-coordination skills — able to run several proposals as projects at once, tracking timelines, dependencies, and stakeholders while keeping accuracy across large volumes of information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to summarise complex, technical topics clearly and professionally for clients and partners.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, international, multicultural setting; team-oriented and proactive, knowing when to progress independently and when to escalate.
• Fluent English (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus.