Resourcing Assistant Manager in Birmingham

The Resourcing Assistant Manager will play a central role in supporting with transition to a more centralised, tool-driven resource management model. This role will remove operational burden from managers and directors, freeing up capacity for client work and enabling more consistent, high-quality staffing decisions., This role combines day-to-day execution with change-management responsibilities, ensuring data integrity, improving utilisation insight, and helping embed new processes across service lines as the resourcing model matures. It sits within Business Support, Finance – Operational Resourcing team, reporting to a Resourcing Senior Manager.

• Allocate resources to projects, focus on resources under Manager. This includes offshore resources.
• Develop deep knowledge of individual staff skills, training pathways and experience levels to make informed, equitable deployment decisions.
• Prioritise resource during peak periods to ensure client delivery quality, escalating conflicting demands for resolution.
• Ensure that non-client commitments (e.g., internal projects, training, study leave) are accurately reflected in Retain in partnership with Early Careers and L&D teams.
• Support centralised resource planning, enabling agile deployment and resource sharing as the resourcing model expands.
• Maintain data accuracy for aligned business areas within the resourcing system, ensuring reliability for decision-making.
• Monitor utilisation, chargeability, capacity, unstaffed hours and other KPIs, providing analysis to Senior Manager and Service Line leadership.
• Support planning cycles including clash resolution, planning sheet review, and data imports into Retain.
• Produce ad hoc reporting and MI for engagement teams, Ops Directors and SL leads.
• Help prepare for future tool enhancements or replacements (aligned to firmwide transformation ).
  Experience with change management and setting up new processes from scratch.
• Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Ability to analyse data, identify trends and present insights clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail, particularly relating to data accuracy and workflow quality.
• Confident using resource systems, scheduling tools or advanced Excel/PowerBI.
  Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services. Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners. We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future.

You’ll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you\’re supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one. You\’ll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team. Together, we grow, belong and impact.

About the team Operational resourcing is a growing, strategically important function focused on improving client delivery, enhancing data accuracy, strengthening risk management, and enabling our people to develop through fair allocation and transparent deployment.