Consulting Traffic Manager in Slough

A proactive and highly organised professional with experience in project management or resourcing within a professional services environment. You will play a dual role (70% Traffic Manager, 30% Finance Assistant), ensuring our 40-person consultancy runs like clockwork by balancing consultant workloads with essential financial administration.

Here at Seismic we have a two-part vision: to help 10 million people join the shift by 2030 and to be the best place we have ever worked. We know that’s an ambitious vision. That means challenging ourselves and our clients every day, striving for growth, and delivering real impact. We foster a culture of continuous learning and mutual support, ensuring every changemaker feels empowered to grow and contribute their best.

The role and its responsibilities include:

• Traffic & Resourcing: Taking a commercial approach to prioritising and allocating capacity across competing demands, including sales, delivery and internal commitments.
• Managing the end-to-end resourcing process, matching the right consultants to the right projects based on skills and availability.
• Leading weekly resourcing meetings to identify capacity risks, bottlenecks, or under-utilisation.
• Acting as the bridge between the sales team (incoming work) and the delivery team (current capacity).
• Maintaining and optimising our resource management tools to ensure a "Single Source of Truth" for all project scheduling.
• Owning the resource (Utilisation) reports, taking a forward looking view to give the Leadership Team the information to make resourcing, recruitment and strategy decisions.

• Finance Assistance: Monitoring project "burn rates" to alert Project Managers when budgets are running ahead of plan.
• Tracking and maintaining oversight of budget adjustments, ensuring any changes are appropriately approved.
• Supporting cash collection by tracking aged debtors and following up on overdue invoices.
• Assisting with project invoicing and tracking expenses against project budgets.
• Managing the purchase ledger, ensuring supplier invoices are processed in a timely manner.
• Supporting the month-end process by ensuring all consultant timesheets are accurate and submitted on time.
• General financial administrative support.

About you: You believe that humanity and businesses need to make a seismic shift in the right direction and want to apply your consulting and analytical capabilities to help make that happen. You will especially enjoy working at Seismic if you have a growth mindset and are comfortable with uncertainty, as we are a fast-growing, agile and evolving business.

To be successful in this role you would need the following attributes:

• Agency Experience: Proven experience in a traffic, resourcing, or project management role within a fast-paced agency or professional services environment.
• Organisational Mastery: A track record of juggling multiple priorities and projects without dropping the ball.
• Numerical Accuracy: Strong attention to detail with experience in basic financial administration or budget tracking.
• Commerciality: Understanding the balance required to achieve our business sales objectives whilst meeting our utilisation expectations.
• Communication Skills: A knack for building relationships and the confidence to negotiate resource conflicts across different teams.
• Growth Mindset: Excited by the opportunity to join a high-performance, purpose-driven team.
• Pace & Ownership: Comfortable operating at pace in a growing business, managing a portfolio of clients and projects.

In your 100 days you will:

• Be paired with a dedicated manager and mentor to accelerate your integration and professional development.
• Go through our onboarding programme with training across all our sustainability services.
• Join our fortnightly Personal Growth sessions and Friday checkout.

Location: Ideally you will be within commuting distance of our London office, attending the office (Waterloo) at least twice per week.

Working hours: We believe in flexible working hours to better suit our personal lives while being considerate of each other and our clients.

Salary and benefits include:

• 25 days annual leave per year pro-rata.
• An extra day of annual leave for your birthday.
• The option to swap up to two Bank Holidays per year to suit your religious/cultural/family/personal needs.
• £500 per year professional development budget.
• Plus two days per year professional development time.
• £200 per year wellbeing budget.
• £200 home office setup budget.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Wellbeing and benefits platform.
• Bupa health insurance.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Financial coaching (Bippit).

Seismic is an equal opportunities employer.