Resource Manager - Assurance Advisory

Resource Manager - Assurance Advisory 

The Opportunity 

As an experienced Resource Manager, you have the exciting opportunity to create an environment that empowers employees to engage in experiences that enhance their professional lives and career trajectories. Your role as a workforce planning and resource management expert is central to activating day-to-day operations that drive business performance and fulfil our commitment to nurturing talent. You achieve this by strategically placing the right people in the right roles at the right time. This includes assisting with project demand prioritisation and augmenting supply, while balancing commercial needs to ensure business success. Additionally, you will provide insights into workforce planning, skills, capabilities, and trends. 

You will be part of a fast-growing area of our Assurance practice, primarily focused on providing a wide range of advisory services to our clients. Working with people who inspire and bring out the best in you, you will have the opportunity to make a positive, strategic impact in our business. You will collaborate closely with and be a trusted advisor to our business leaders and other EY internal functions, whilst experiencing our diverse and inclusive culture and being supported in your ongoing growth and development. We believe that only the highest-performing teams that maximise the power of different perspectives can succeed in this fast-changing environment. 

This role is based in Naarm-Melbourne or Warrang – Sydney. Our roles can potentially be adjusted to work flexibly with reduced hours. Please speak with us about potential options. 

Your key responsibilities: 

• Partner with our business leaders and stakeholders to build and manage key relationships across accounts/sectors/talent pools to develop and direct a resource management agenda. 
• Collaborate closely with Talent and Recruitment teams on updates and movements in available talent pool. 
• Evaluate current and future resource needs, and develop a timely plan, challenging past resourcing models as needed. This requires understanding project backgrounds and the necessary skills.
• Allocate and manage people bench across open roles on projects with the right skills and expertise. 
• Manage cross team and multi-disciplinary talent pools, available capacity, understand capabilities and proactively identify opportunities for available people across Australia, New Zealand and GDS.
• Ensure seamless connectivity between pursuit teams and our available talent. 
• Provide timely and accurate insights into long term resource requirements based on recent and forecast trends.
• Understand and support, where feasible, service areas team members have identified they would like to be considered being resourced on engagement, to support the ongoing development of their skills and capabilities. 
• Drive behaviour change using data insights, and foster agile and continuous improvement. 
• Ensure a reliable and accurate business forecast as input into key business decisions on supply and demand. 
• Provide accurate and regular reporting regarding talent pool availability, current and utilisation forecast to stakeholders with relevant/ meaningful insights. 
• Act as an escalation point for other resourcing conflicts or challenges and assist with providing or managing solutions with relevant stakeholders. 
• Oversee the wider Assurance Advisory resourcing team and provide ongoing coaching and development support. 
• Lean in to support Assurance Advisory resourcing team members for periods of absence or where there’s identified an acute increased demand on resourcing need. 

Skill and attributes for success

• Minimum 5 years’ experience within operations management,  workforce planning or resource management. 
• Ability to provide strategic insights and manage expectations in pursuit of increasing utilisation and employee engagement. 
• Exceptional client service with a strong desire to build exceptional, high-performing teams for our business. 
• Ability to understand the business, learn the unique skills, needs and goals of our people. 
• Attention to detail and data accuracy and the ability to analyse data to provide insights and recommendations.  
• Stakeholder engagement across multiple levels in the business. 
• Ability to challenge the status quo and identify and support the implementation of solutions, which create efficiencies and enable better ways of working with relation to resourcing needs .

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more. 

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences ey.com/au/careerdevelopment 
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.  
• A comprehensive benefits package: From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally www.ey.com/au/benefits      
• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience. 

Acknowledgement of Country

EY acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which EY offices are located around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures, and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. Find out more about our vision for reconciliation at ey.com/en_au/careers/indigenous 

Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (DE&I) are core to who we are, how we work and how we live our values. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment experience for all. We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to be your best and participate equitably in our recruitment process. We understand sharing your needs with us can be daunting, so if you have questions before or during your application, we welcome you to get in touch at contactrecruitment@au.ey.com or +61 3 8650 7788 (option 2). Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential. 

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider. 

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