Workforce Planning Analyst Supervising Associate

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

The opportunity

EY is enabling a dynamic, reliable strategic workforce planning capability to support and inform business processes and define talent strategy to support business strategy. 

The analyst will be a member of the Service Line workforce planning team, work under the guidance of the Service Line Workforce Planning Leader and supported by developed strategies, tools, and technology.

In coordination with the respective Region or Sub Service Line, the analyst will develop, analyze, and model scenarios considering operational (near term) or strategic (long term) data. The analyst will support weekly, monthly, and annual business processes and often present work product to Region or Sub Service Line distributed leadership team(s).  The analyst will be a trusted advisor to the Region or Sub Service Line stakeholders (Talent, Experience Management, Finance and Recruiting) and an active contributing member of the Service Line Workforce Planning Team.

Your key responsibilities for respective Region or Sub Service Line

• Execute WFP weekly, monthly, and annual processes in support of business strategy.
• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders (Leadership, Talent, Experience Management, Finance, Recruiting).
• Daily/weekly coordination and input of data into Workforce Planning Tools (IOWP and Workforce Tracker) for Operational Workforce Planning.
• Host monthly deep dive meetings with local TCs and Experience Management to further understanding of workforce activity and/or workforce concerns.
• Monitoring attrition risks including performance issues, VISA risks, promotion projections (CPA risks) and mobility projections.
• Analyze headcount and supply activity – actual and projected – compared to plan and prior year to identify trends and/or key insights.
• Discuss appropriateness of projected supply activity with STC based on review of recent trends and insight gained from stakeholders.
• Work closely with Experience Management to understand demand, staffing concerns, etc.
• Distribute reports and participate in discussions with stakeholders regarding headcount and supply activity - identifying key data insights from the reports.
• Monthly reporting discussions with STC, EM Leader and Finance Director to understand headcount, supply activity, demand, supply/demand gaps and strategies to manage and near-term workforce concerns (in support of SQM procedures if applicable).
• Support annual financial plan process with creation of headcount roll-forward for plan working closely with stakeholders.
• Participate in and support annual campus goal setting discussions.
• Support creation of and annual review of desired leverage models to support business workforce strategy.   
• Work closely with stakeholders to define and model multi-year strategy including onshore, near shore and offshore workforce types.
• Participate in strategy discussions around potential impacts to workforce at a local level based on multi-year models.
• Present analysis to leaders and stakeholders in a manner that enables them to make strategic decisions.
• Participate in weekly Service Line workforce planning meetings to build team rapport, share best practices, collectively achieve workforce planning goals and objectives.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Curiosity to learn and understand complex business problems.
• Comfortable working in a cross-functional team managing through ambiguity.
• Strong communication skills – ability to ask the right questions and articulate analytics outcomes to senior level leader.
• English Language proficiency. 

To qualify for the role, you must have.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Workforce Planning preferable.
• 5 plus years of business experience, with 2 plus years of related experience preferably within in workforce planning, Talent, Finance or Experience Management, including running projects from beginning to end, delivering results to senior level leaders

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Proficiency in Microsoft applications, Power BI experience a plus
• Moderate to advanced understanding of Excel

What we look for

We're interested in knowledgeable professionals ready to take ownership for improving our processes. You'll need to be naturally curious, ready to learn and have a genuine passion for improvement. If you're aiming to influence change within a world class organization, all while developing your own career, this role is for you.