Manager, Workforce Planning

Armanino McKenna Certified Public Accountants & Consultants • Nashville, TN

76d • $134,000 - $181,200 • Remote

About The Position

At Armanino, you determine your career path. This means it's possible to pursue challenges you are passionate about, in industries you care about. Armanino is proud to be Among the top 20 Largest Accounting and Consulting Firms in the Nation and one of the Best Places to Work. We have a community of resources that are ready and willing to support your ideas, build your skills and expand your professional network. We want you to integrate all aspects of your life with your career. At Armanino, we know you don't check-out of life when you check-in at work. That's why we've created a unique work environment where your passions, work, and family & friends can overlap. We want to help you achieve growth by giving you access to a network of smart and supportive people, willing to listen to your ideas. The Workforce Planning Manager position is a strategic and critically important role at Armanino. As a Professional Services firm, managing our changing workforce in a dynamic and competitive environment impacts Armanino's ability to deliver outstanding services to our customers. This role will partner closely with Business Unit leaders, Human Resources, Finance and Executives to guide the business to reach the optimal level of staffing and matching the supply of talent with the demand from a growing customer base.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in applicable field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in workforce planning, personnel modeling or capacity planning
• Strong strategic workforce advisor background with experience operating in a complex organization with a record of delivering results
• Exceptional collaboration, influencing, and partnership skills with ability to drive consensus at various levels in cross-functional teams to drive actionable results
• Ability to articulate complex messages in a clear, concise way to a variety of audiences; calm under pressure and ability to pivot with unexpected challenges
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to solve new problems with innovative solutions
• Deep understanding of strategy development, design, and implementation of cross-functional initiatives related to personnel, staffing and long- range planning
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative workforce data and synthesize meaningful and actionable results
• Ability to identify technology solutions and tools to solve business problems, drive desired outcomes and present approaches through data driven storytelling
• Ability to handle multiple priorities with a high degree of flexibility and accountability
• Flexibility to work from home while collaborating in person half the time.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Finance, Business Administration, HRIS or related field
• Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Generative AI, and Machine Learning Models
• Experience with Workday, Workday HCM, Workday Adaptive Planning
• Experience with Microsoft BI Suite or similar Data Visualization tools
• Workforce Planning experience in a professional services industry with larger ($500m+ / yr) firm

Responsibilities

• Establish, implement and educate business partners on a systematic and disciplined workforce planning and prioritization process
• Lead the development of insightful, data-driven solutions and implement scalable workforce planning tools and technology
• Analyze business strategies and business-led workforce planning activities to identify talent implications and opportunities to improve planning consistency and standardization
• Develop compelling, logically structured presentations and deliverables to communicate workforce planning strategies to senior leadership
• Serve a key partner to functional leadership to develop and manage national workforce plan demand for a global mix of FTEs, contingent roles, and alternate sourcing (BPOs) based on business and resource needs
• Drive resolution and/or mitigation of current and anticipated workforce challenges, analyzing and identifying critical workforce requirements necessary to execute strategic business plans
• Develop productive partnerships across Talent, Finance and business units to serve as a trusted advisor on firmwide workforce planning activities, including annual Budget cycles and establishment of a rolling financial forecast
• Continuously lead and engage Business Leaders, Finance and Talent Acquisition on position prioritization before requisition creation
• Effectively gather and interpret internal/external data trends and insights to assess talent gaps, forecast needs and model future scenarios to inform leadership decision-making
• Create and drive the approach on performance improvement based on reporting. Define and track workforce metrics aligned with the firmwide workforce strategy and long-term plan

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time
• Flexible work arrangements
• 401K with Profit Sharing
• Wellness program
• Generous parental leave
• 11 paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree