Resourcing Assistant Manager in Birmingham

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

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.

The Resourcing Assistant Manager will play a central role in supporting a 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, focusing on resources under Manager, including 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).

What we are looking for:

• 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.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: At Forvis Mazars, diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our values. We value our people's unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experience, and know this diversity creates better outcomes for our clients. We seek to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, inclusive of sex, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, and faith. We select candidates based on skills, knowledge, qualifications, and experience and aim to support all our team.