Resource Manager

Aprio•Little Falls, NJ

9d•$108,500 - $157,300•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Aprio's Resource Management team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Resource Manager to join their dynamic team. The Resource Manager aligns workforce capacity, skills, and availability with engagement demand. This role owns resource allocation, resolves staffing risks, improves utilization and leverage, and provides leadership with data-driven workforce insights to support operational and financial objectives. Responsibilities include staffing, capacity planning, forecasting, resource optimization, and cross-functional workforce coordination.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Operations, Finance, Project Management, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in Tax resource management, workforce planning, project staffing, operations, or a related discipline.
Experience managing resource allocation, capacity planning, utilization, and workforce forecasting.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret workforce, utilization, and operational performance data.
Experience using workforce management, project management, scheduling, and reporting tools.
Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, balance competing priorities, and resolve staffing conflicts.
Strong communication, facilitation, relationship management, and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in professional services, consulting, accounting, tax, audit, or another project-based environment.
Experience with strategic workforce planning, skills inventory management, and capacity modeling.
Experience with ProStaff, Power BI, Workday, Practice Engine, CCH Workflow, or similar workforce and reporting platforms.
Knowledge of utilization, leverage, forecasting, demand planning, and workforce optimization methodologies.
Project Management Professional (PMP), workforce planning certification, or related credential.

Responsibilities

Allocate resources based on skills, experience level, availability, timing, and engagement requirements.
Partner with practice leaders, job managers, and resource pod leaders to balance workloads and align staffing with client commitments.
Monitor capacity, utilization, leverage, scheduled-versus-actual performance, and forecast accuracy; identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
Resolve staffing conflicts, urgent resource needs, delays, and workload imbalances while communicating decisions and schedule changes effectively.
Maintain accurate resource plans, schedules, open needs, placeholders, skills inventories, and workforce data across resource management systems.
Lead recurring resource alignment meetings focused on supply and demand, staffing decisions, cross-utilization, forecasting, and workforce risks.
Manage workforce forecasting and capacity planning to identify future demand, skills gaps, staffing requirements, and hiring needs.
Coordinate cross-pod, onshore, offshore, outsourced, and integration-related staffing activities to optimize resource deployment.
Oversee preparation pools and unassigned-work queues to ensure timely staffing and workload progression.
Support adoption of workforce planning processes, reporting tools, resource management systems, and strategic workforce planning initiatives.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
401k with Profit Sharing
9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
Top rated wellness program
Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options