Tax Resource Manager, Workforce Optimization

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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.

Key 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.

Key Outcomes:

• Right people assigned to the right work at the right time.
• Balanced workloads and improved utilization and leverage.
• Accurate demand forecasts and workforce capacity plans.
• Timely identification and resolution of staffing risks and conflicts.
• Greater visibility and transparency into workforce decisions and resource allocation.