PwC - Senior Associate - Resource Planner/Resource Management/Tax/Assurance

PwC - Resource Planner/Resource Management (Tax/Assurance) - Senior Associate

Job title: Resource Planner - Senior Associate

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

About the job:

Job description - Key responsibilities:

1. Forecasting & Headcount planning:

- Collaborate with Business Leaders to set the plan and forecast for the fiscal.

- Partner with hiring managers on hiring strategies & processes helping to have a desired pool of resources for staffing in terms of Headcount and skills.

- Providing inputs to Business Leaders and hiring managers based on demand supply analysis on periodic basis.

2. Staffing:

- Optimal utilization of resources - planning, forecasting and allocation of practitioners to maximize efficiency.

- Help set up and maintain Deployment Schedules and determine staffing requirements with Market Team's help.

- Mapping the available capabilities with the current & future pipeline of demands, analyze the gaps and work with business to mitigate the excess supply/shortage

- Partnering with RMs/SPOCs from other business areas to have awareness on the availability/demand situation to collaborate and cater to business needs accordingly.

- Have discussion with the Market Leader and/or Business Leader

- On urgent and volume of unfilled roles

- On current/forecasted availability or shortage

- On high-risk staffing situations

- Maintaining appropriate leverage in staffing

- Manage staffing conflicts.

- To have regular connects (weekly/biweekly) with Market Leads

Utilization:

- Analyze utilization of practitioners on a regular basis.

- Have connects with practitioners/Team Leads on variance, if any.

- Analyze the trends in utilization and provide suggestions/feedback to business.

- Suggest/facilitate cross training/skilling based on business needs.

Reporting Analytics:

- Manage staffing data and ensure accuracy & integrity

- Provide reporting & analysis on staffing to Business Leaders and other Talent functions.

- Interpret the staffing data/reports into suggestions for Business and other Talent functions towards effective management of resources and demands.