Assistant Resourcing Manager at BDO UK

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Our biggest asset is our people, so our Audit Resourcing Directorate are focused on ensuring we have the right people working together to deliver the best results, whilst providing space for us all to deliver quality work and reach our potential. 

They use their specialist expertise to ensure we enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

Resourcing Teams are the heartbeat of our firm.

They know what is going on in the ground, they know where we are headed and they can drive us forward to deliver our strategy.
In this role you will focus on the allocation and prioritisation of resourcing needs for your business unit, including editing resourcing requests from multiple stakeholders across the business. The role will include regular tasks to be carried out as well as project work and ad hoc requests. The role is an important part of the business to provide an efficient, effective and professional resourcing coordination for the team.

The resourcing team are responsible for not just ensuring optimum resource allocation and utilisation but also providing timely and accurate management information to various stakeholders by identifying shortfalls, booking clashes and inefficiencies to help in contingency planning and risk mitigation. 

This is an important role in the firm as it enables us to appropriately resource the projects required to deliver a quality audit project and exceptional support service. Your main duties will involve but not be limited to:

• Support the Resource Managers in day to day resourcing operations of your business units
• Use our resource planner, Dayshape, to book trainees to jobs / study leave / college / training courses / holiday etc
• Build effective relationships with the central resourcing team and the Project Managers to understand the needs in respect of resourcing for assignments
• Act as a point of contact for the trainees, working with them to ensure allocation to jobs that support their objectives and career development
• Familiarisation with the trainees’ professional qualification pathways so that these are considered when allocating resource
• Work with People Managers and Resourcing Project Manager to support any performance issues, and notifying them if there are any issues or concerns related to staff and trainees
• Work with Resourcing Manager to closely monitor metrics such as utilisation, capacity and demand and creating monthly reporting.
• Own and ensure adoption of all resourcing policies in your area of remit
• Identify solutions to manage resourcing conflicts/clashes effectively, liaising with the relevant managers in a timely manner
• Support Business Support with absence approval, (e.g. holiday, sickness, TOIL, and study leave)
• Consider skills needed for projects and match to resource skills when allocating assignments.
• Ensure that the resource model accurately reflects any leaver and joiner movements.

You’ll be someone with:

• Experience in resource planning and management processes with exposure to tools and systems
• Intermediate IT skills (MS Outlook, Word, PowerPoint & Excel)
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Proven ability to operate under pressure with conflicting priorities, tight deadlines and demanding stakeholder needs
• Ability to interpret and analyse MI and data to identify and solve problems
• Continued professional development of yourself and others, seeking challenges and opportunities
• Experience in a professional services firm (Desirable)
• Previous experience of Dayshape (Desirable)

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.