**In your career, will you tick all the right boxes or think outside them?**
At EY we believe that whoever you are, your uniqueness helps us stand apart.
We bring together extraordinary people, like you, to build a better working world.
**What's in it for you?**
We are looking for a highly motivated self-starter and strong team player who likes to challenge themselves. As a Workforce Planner within the Assurance team in our Melbourne office your role will be all about working with people, building relationships and solving problems.
This is a fixed-term contract role of approximately 15 months, working full-time in our Melbourne office.
**What we're looking for**
Here's our 'wish list' but don't worry if you don't tick all the boxes. We're interested in your strengths, what you want to learn, and how far you want to go.
- Experience with resource management and/or supply and demand management within professional services
- Ability to understand the business and learn the unique skills, needs, desires and goals of our people
- Ability to find the right opportunities and connections to create diverse, inclusive and high-performing teams
- Able to optimise business performance by advocating solutions, providing insights and managing expectations in pursuit of increasing utilisation and employee engagement
- Demonstrating personal leadership and having presence, vitality and agility
- Experience in using MS Excel and information/data analysis with a high degree of accuracy
- Confident communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities within the business and operational market
- Strong conflict resolution and negotiating skills to balance individual and business needs
- Demonstrates a positive attitude and strong personal integrity and ability to work autonomously
**Your key responsibilities**
- Stakeholder and Relationship management - responsible for managing key relationships within and across Assurance
- Opportunity and Demand - work with engagement managers to actively allocate resources, challenge hours, timing and flexibility of engagements to find suitable resource
- Resource management - actively managing our available resources, understanding their capability and proactively identifying opportunities and resolving resourcing conflicts
- Resource optimisation - highlighting capability across the team and wider Assurance to optimise performance and meeting engagement metrics
- Developing and analysing resource management reports - engagement planning trends, utilisation, production
- Identify and implement improvements in resourcing processes and reporting
**What we can offer you**
**Acknowledgement of Country**
**The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.**
**EY | Building a better working world**
- Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider._