Resourcing Assistant Manager

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.

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.

The work we do is underpinned by quality. We deliver audits which are trusted and transparent which can be relied upon by companies and their stakeholders.

You’ll be someone who is comfortable working pro-actively and, managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with Senior Managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners. You’ll help deliver accurate and transparent reporting to all relevant stakeholders as you provide long term value.

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.

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:

• Supporting the Resource Managers in day to day resourcing operations of your business units
• Using our resource planner, Dayshape, to book trainees to jobs / study leave / college / training courses / holiday etc
• Building effective relationships with the central resourcing team and the Project Managers to understand the needs in respect of resourcing for assignments
• Acting 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
• Working 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
• Working with Resourcing Manager to closely monitor metrics such as utilisation, capacity and demand and creating monthly reporting.
• Owning and ensuring adoption of all resourcing policies in your area of remit
• Identifying solutions to manage resourcing conflicts/clashes effectively, liaising with the relevant managers in a timely manner
• Supporting Business Support with absence approval, (e.g. holiday, sickness, TOIL, and study leave)
• Considering skills needed for projects and match to resource skills when allocating assignments.
• Ensuring that the resource model accurately reflects any leaver and joiner movements.

• 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…