Resourcing Assistant Manager in London

About BD

BD is an accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world. We work with companies that are Britain's economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurial, and high‐growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.

About the Role

The Assistant Resourcing Manager will focus on the allocation and prioritisation of resourcing needs for the business unit, including editing resourcing requests from multiple stakeholders across the business. The role is an important part of the business, providing efficient, effective and professional resourcing coordination. The team ensures optimum resource allocation and utilisation, while delivering timely and accurate management information to various stakeholders by identifying shortfalls, booking clashes and inefficiencies to aid contingency planning and risk mitigation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the Resource Managers in day‐to‐day resourcing operations of your business units.
• Use our resource planner, Dayshape, to book trainees to jobs, study leave, college, training courses, holiday, etc.
• Build effective relationships with the central resourcing team and Project Managers to understand resourcing needs for assignments.
• Act as a point of contact for trainees, working with them to ensure allocation to jobs that support their objectives and career development.
• Familiarise with trainees' professional qualification pathways so they are considered when allocating resources.
• Work with People Managers and the Resourcing Project Manager to support any performance issues, notifying them of concerns related to staff and trainees.
• Monitor metrics such as utilisation, capacity and demand, creating monthly reporting.
• Own and ensure adoption of all resourcing policies in your remit.
• Identify solutions to manage resourcing conflicts and clashes effectively, liaising with relevant managers in a timely manner.
• Support Business Support with absence approvals (holiday, sickness, TOIL, study leave).
• Match skills needed for projects to resource skills when allocating assignments.
• Ensure the resource model accurately reflects any leaver and joiner movements.

Key Qualifications

• 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 yourself and others, seeking challenges and opportunities.
• Experience in a professional services firm (Desirable).
• Previous experience of Dayshape (Desirable).

Benefits and Working Environment

We are committed to agile working, offering everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand. We provide programmes, resources and frameworks that give clarity and structure around career development. Our culture values mutual support and respect, and we encourage continuous learning through multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources.