Resourcing Senior Associate

At PwC, our people in people strategy focus on developing and implementing long-term strategies to align the organisation's human capital with its overall business objectives. This involves analysing workforce trends, applying the latest HR strategy, long-term workforce planning and improving overall employee experience.

In strategic workforce planning at PwC, you will focus on analysing and forecasting the organisation's current and future workforce needs. You will play a crucial role in analysing if the organisation has the right people with the right skills in the right positions to achieve its strategic objectives. Additionally, you will analyse data, forecast future needs, develop strategies, and collaborate with stakeholders to optimise the workforce and drive organisational success.

The Senior Associate in the People pillar provides a pivotal role in supporting the Resource Managers with the staffing and deployment of our firms' employees working across our highly dynamic professional services firm offering Advisory, Tax, Audit and other assurance services to a large portfolio of international and local clients. This role will suit an individual looking to progress their career in PwC, who is prepared to provide support to the Resource team and wider BCI stakeholders. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, with the passion and ability to upskill yourself. The role requires a high level of self-management and personal responsibility coupled with the ability to prioritise, organise and manage tasks and workload. You will have a customer service mindset, good technical skills and the ability to keep up to date with current and emerging technology.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaboration with the resource managers and engagement managers in the allocation of staff to engagements
• Assisting engagement managers with immediate resourcing issues on a day-to-day basis
• Working with engagement managers to resolve booking conflicts
• Managing staff member time off requests
• Assisting engagement managers with engagement budgets
• Reviewing time charged to confirm accuracy
• Managing Engagement Lead and Engagement Manager communication updates
• Reconciliation of engagement budgets to live resource bookings
• Supporting wider resource team with tasks as required

This role reports to: Resource Manager. There are no direct reports into this role.

We are unable to provide a work permit for this role. Candidates must hold their own right to work in Guernsey or Jersey.

Essential skills:

• An enthusiastic and positive attitude with the eagerness to learn and drive own continual self-development.
• Able to demonstrate strong organisational skills and high levels of self-motivation.
• Strong prioritisation skills - ability to multitask, work well under pressure and tight deadlines, whilst supporting multiple stakeholders who might have conflicting priorities.
• Excellent communication skills and time management.
• Ability to work proactively/be flexible and make decisions where appropriate.
• Professional behaviours - High levels of discretion and understanding of confidentiality.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain trusted relationships.
• Able to collaborate, build a rapport with colleagues/clients and work well as part of a team.
• Curious mindset to existing and emerging technologies to support new ways of working and the ability to embrace and adapt to new technology in a fast-moving tech environment.
• Accurate and consistent recording of time to support wellbeing and capacity.
• Role modelling inclusivity by demonstrating a sound knowledge of cultural differences, global mindset and inclusion and diversity.
• Demonstrate flexibility and agility to support the delivery of business objectives.

Desirable skills:

• Data driven decision making
• Project management
• Budget & forecasting

Inter-island travel may be required from time to time.

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional. The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes.

Diversity: We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.