Resource Management, Senior Specialist (Tax)

Overview

This organization is seeking a Resource Management, Senior Specialist (Tax) to support the Northeast region.

This role is remote. While work does not require daily proximity to an office location, remote employees may be required to be present at an office with scheduled notice for client work, team meetings, or trainings.

Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor utilization levels against business plans, highlighting adverse variance and potential issues for resolution for a minimum of 75 professionals for a designated service line or geography in Advisory, Assurance, and Tax.
• Monitor the task list in the resource management (RM) technology tool to approve resource requests, PTO, CPE, and related items.
• For assigned business units, understand specialization requirements, timing constraints, staffing continuity, and geographic considerations.
• Maintain knowledge of employees’ preferences regarding skills, interests, and career development opportunities.
• Apply a common resource planning methodology to enable planning and prioritization decisions by cost and resource skills/interests.
• Deliver monthly metrics on staffing trends and resource activities, improving visibility of unallocated resources and increasing cross-sharing staffing activity.
• Ensure the labor workforce is efficiently planned according to operational requirements and resource management service level agreements.
• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders and externally with vendors.
• Maintain working knowledge of resource management platforms.
• Use influence skills to gain acceptance of planning proposals, promoting procedural best practices using basic data, logic, or a solid business case.
• Provide oversight of processes and technology when required.
• Perform other responsibilities and projects as directed by the resource management center of expertise.

Requirements

• 4-year undergrad degree in Business Management/Administration OR 4-year undergrad degree in accounting or finance.
• Minimum of 3 years of Tax or Assurance resource management or workforce planning experience.
• Ability to apply resource management procedures and policies and translate them for assigned business unit and business leader(s).
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically strong Excel skills, including the ability to use pivot tables and macros and summarize analytics via pivot charts.
• Solid understanding of financial statements and utilization metrics.
• Strong organization and time management skills to complete work accurately and on time.
• Exceptional communication, influencing, and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate effectively, tactfully, and courteously using Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Strong oral presentation, listening, and influencing skills.
• Ability to exercise creative problem-solving to provide solutions.
• Up to 10% travel may be required as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with resource management planning processes integrated across related functions (e.g., employee experience, recruiting, financial planning, learning and development) is strongly aligned with the role.

Compensation & Benefits

• Maryland salary range: $105,000 to $110,000.
• Actual compensation within the range will depend on skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws.
• Total rewards also include:
  • Discretionary performance bonus
  • Generous paid time off
  • Expanded and inclusive parental benefits
  • Access to learning and development platforms

Location

• Northeast region
• Remote (work does not require duties to be performed within proximity of a company office, but scheduled in-office presence may be required for client work, team meetings, or trainings).