Resource Management Senior Consultant
About The Position
This role is responsible for initiating and facilitating regular assessments with managers to discuss upcoming assignments, scheduling needs, or capacity, including evaluation of budgets in comparison of scheduling needs and historical actuals. The position manages the staffing/scheduling process for the office/region and department, and collaborates with office leadership to achieve office utilization goals of staff and meet recommended industry group mix requirements for staff role. The consultant will update data in the scheduling system as required to ensure that system schedules agree to assignments communicated by managers, and create scheduling system reports on a regular basis to help in making decisions about allocating resources across the office and/or regions. This role also assists the Talent Deployment Manager in reporting on and evaluating tax/assurance utilization (firmwide), closely monitors assurance/tax staff hours and schedules, and assists the Talent Deployment Manager and firm leadership to achieve utilization goals across all practice roles. The consultant will proactively address utilization matters with office and firm leadership, mediate conflicts and resolve resource needs that develop in office and/or region, and proactively communicate potential staffing issues and provide information to allow for the effective deployment of resources. Additionally, the role assigns staff to engagements to ensure that resources are effectively deployed and staff workloads are balanced, promotes and monitors the sharing of resources region-wide as well as firm-wide, and leads office, region, and firmwide scheduling meetings.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a professional services/public accounting firm in either tax, audit, or scheduling role
- High School diploma or GED equivalent is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, or other business related field highly preferred
- Project management skills necessary to: Meet project milestones, Make decisions when required, Monitor databases, Communicate clear objectives, Maintain and develop relationships with staff, Partners, and internal clients, Perform against tight deadlines
- Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) experience
- Role requires consistent travel to other regional offices
- This is an exempt position, so you may have to work hours that exceed the standard 40-hour work week.
Responsibilities
- Initiate and facilitate regular assessments with managers to discuss upcoming assignments, scheduling needs, or capacity, including evaluation of budgets in comparison of scheduling needs and historical actuals
- Manage the staffing/scheduling process for the office/region and department
- Collaborate with office leadership to achieve office utilization goals of staff and meet recommended industry group mix requirements for staff role
- Update data in scheduling system as required to ensure that system schedules agree to assignments communicated by managers
- Create scheduling system reports on a regular basis to help in making decisions about allocating resources across the office and/or regions
- Assist Talent Deployment Manager in reporting on and evaluating tax/assurance utilization (firmwide)
- Closely monitor assurance/tax staff hours and schedules
- Assist Talent Deployment Manager and firm leadership to achieve utilization goals across all practice roles
- Proactively address utilization matters with office and firm leadership
- Mediate conflicts and resolve resource needs that develop in office and/or region
- Proactively communicate potential staffing issues and provide information to allow for the effective deployment of resource
- Assign staff to engagements to ensure that resources are effectively deployed and staff workloads are balanced
- Promote and monitor the sharing of resources region-wide as well as firm-wide
- Lead office, region, and firmwide scheduling meetings
Benefits
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- disability insurance
- life insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- various pre-determined holidays
- 401(k) plan
- flexible benefits plans
- business-related travel expense
- lodging reimbursement for business-related use
- meal reimbursement for business-related use
- pension plan is also available for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff
- discretionary bonus plan is available for eligible staff
- option to elect health insurance in addition to limited paid sick time for some contingent staff positions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
