Associate- Resource management

Service line - Position Title: Resource Management – Associate RA

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About Global Delivery Services:

Global Delivery Services refers to EY's worldwide network of service delivery centers. The GDS team plays an important role in EY’s strategy by ensuring effective support to EY’s growth agenda.

Our journey started in 2002 with approximately 200 people. Today we stand at 80,000+ professionals in ten locations around the world. We operate in Argentina, China, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Client service is focused on providing Consulting, Assurance, Tax, Strategy & Transactions, and Knowledge support to our clients around the world. The teams enable account teams worldwide to provide seamless, high-quality, value-added support, helping deliver exceptional client service.

Enablement Services provides cost-effective, high-skilled, and innovative services to support EY’s global and local enablement teams. Markets, BMC, AWS, Finance and Accounting, Risk Management, Procurement, People Shared Services, IT Service Delivery and IT Global Infrastructure services, are among the services offered by Enablement Services.

Our innovation specialists serve the GDS Client Service and Enablement Services teams, along with Service Lines, Core Business Services and Sectors. The team brings the desired environment, technologies and skilled teams together for facilitation, rapid prototyping and innovative thinking. The competencies offered include analytics, digital, user experience, mobile technology, infrastructure, Microsoft technologies and open innovation.

The Opportunity:

We’re looking for candidates who can work with us as Experience Management (EM) POC for assigned SET(s)/industry/sector teams to ensure timely execution of RM Reporting Activities and deliver highest quality support while meeting delivery timelines. 

You will be responsible for executing tasks with increasing autonomy, applying sound judgment within defined parameters, and contributing to team outcomes. You are expected to demonstrate initiative, resolve routine issues independently, and support junior colleagues.

You will anticipate and identify risks within engagements and share any issues with senior members of the team.

In line with EY commitment to quality, you’ll confirm that work is of high quality and is reviewed by the next-level reviewer.

Overview

The Resource Assistant (RA) is an important support role to Service Line Resource Deployment teams and the wider Resource Deployment network.

The role provides an end to end reporting & administrative support both to the Resource Deployment team and to the business with a focus around reporting insights and analytics.

This role is supervised by the SL Resource Deployment team and may work with several individuals on a day to day basis including some limited client facing contact with the business.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Data, analytics & projects

• Produce respective resourcing reports as per the set delivery time lines on a daily basis.
• Ensure consistency and quality with key resourcing reports like resource availability, Engagement reports, RVA, Clash resolution, bench availability reports etc
• Weekly performance comparison of the service line with the forecast and actuals. Further research on producing summary of root causes of performance impacted areas.
• Follow up of variances, driving greater retain/profinda adoption compliance and escalating issues to Resource Deployment Lead
• Seek Guidance from the CoE Analytics team for any strategic/critical reporting requests

Resource Management

• Support the RC and RM’s with Resourcing insights for planning and demand fulfilment. Help in scheduling/forecasting.
• Ensure Headcount Forecaster accuracy;
• Support the adoption and increased use of competency, skills and CV repositories including My Competency and Discover; and
• Support with mandatory training requirements for client teams, this includes nominations based on rank and grade, allocating training sessions without causing clash with chargeable work and further coordinating training swap requests from the business.

Skills and attributes for success:

The role requires someone who can manage a number of concurrent activities, with strong multi-tasking, prioritization, organizational and time management skills.

• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing with co-workers, management team and other Departments, including being sensitive to professional ethics;
• Ability to work proficiently with Microsoft Word, Excel.
• Good hands on expertise with Advance excel reporting and Power BI
• Flexible with working hours;
• Ability to work in a constantly changing work environment;
• Ability to maintain a professional demeanour at all time;
• Ability to organize information and have attention to detail and accurately follow procedures;
• Ability to establish strong partnerships with all levels of the organization while adjusting communications to the specified audience;
• Ability to identify root causes of problems and develop measurable solutions to eliminate re-occurrence;
• Ability to analyse information and use logic and process knowledge to address work-related issues and problems;
• Strong business acumen;
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize and execute multiple tasks;

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Graduates with 2-5 years of post-qualification experience, preferably on resource 
  management, scheduling and staffing concepts. 
• Exposure of short term and long-term resource planning would be an added advantage. 

What we look for:

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn 
  new things in this fast-moving environment 
• An opportunity to be part of a market-leading, multi-disciplinary team in the only 
  integrated global assurance business worldwide. 
• Opportunity to work with EY GDS Assurance practices globally with leading businesses 
  across a range of industries