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Plante Moran · 10 hours ago

Resource Management Senior Consultant

Auburn Hills, MI

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$68K/yr - $110K/yr

3+ years exp

Plante Moran is one of the nation’s largest audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management firms. The Resource Management Senior Consultant will manage staffing and scheduling processes, collaborate with leadership to achieve utilization goals, and address resource needs while promoting a positive working environment.

AccountingConsultingFinancial ServicesInsuranceTax ConsultingWealth Management

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Initiate and facilitate regular assessments with managers to discuss upcoming assignments, scheduling needs, or capacity, including evaluation of budgets in comparison of scheduling needs and historical actuals

Manage the staffing/scheduling process for the office/region and department

Collaborate with office leadership to achieve office utilization goals of staff and meet recommended industry group mix requirements for staff role

Update data in scheduling system as required to ensure that system schedules agree to assignments communicated by managers

Create scheduling system reports on a regular basis to help in making decisions about allocating resources across the office and/or regions

Assist Talent Deployment Manager in reporting on and evaluating tax/assurance utilization (firmwide)

Closely monitor assurance/tax staff hours and schedules

Assist Talent Deployment Manager and firm leadership to achieve utilization goals across all practice roles

Proactively address utilization matters with office and firm leadership

Mediate conflicts and resolve resource needs that develop in office and/or region

Proactively communicate potential staffing issues and provide information to allow for the effective deployment of resource

Assign staff to engagements to ensure that resources are effectively deployed and staff workloads are balanced

Promote and monitor the sharing of resources region-wide as well as firm-wide

Lead office, region, and firmwide scheduling meetings

Qualification

MS OfficeResource allocationProject managementPublic accounting experienceScheduling expertiseInterpersonal skillsOrganizational skillsTime managementSelf-motivationDetail oriented

Required

3+ years of experience in a professional services/public accounting firm in either tax, audit, or scheduling role

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, or other business related field highly preferred

Ability to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, performing a variety of complicated tasks

Project management skills necessary to: Meet project milestones, Make decisions when required, Monitor databases, Communicate clear objectives, Maintain and develop relationships with staff, Partners, and internal clients, Perform against tight deadlines

Must be detail oriented and able to multitask effectively

Strong self-motivation balanced with a desire to achieve team goals

Expert level skills with MS Office (especially Power Point and Excel)

Ability to coordinate information flow with multiple sources (Management, Partnership, team, staff, etc.)

Strong technical aptitude with a desire to understand system infrastructure, challenge and streamline existing processes, and create new processes

Strong supervision abilities

Strong organizational skills

Strong interpersonal and communication skills required to: Promote positive working relationships with diverse personalities/roles at all levels in the firm, Contribute to a positive team attitude

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Demonstrate effective time management skills by completing assignments within calendar schedules

Role requires regional travel to other offices