Your role.

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• Initiate and facilitate regular assessments with managers to discuss upcoming assignments, scheduling needs, or capacity, including evaluation of budgets in comparison of scheduling needs and historical actuals
• Manage the staffing/scheduling process for the office/region and department
• Collaborate with office leadership to achieve office utilization goals of staff and meet recommended industry group mix requirements for staff role
• Update data in scheduling system as required to ensure that system schedules agree to assignments communicated by managers
• Create scheduling system reports on a regular basis to help in making decisions about allocating resources across the office and/or regions
• Assist Talent Deployment Manager in reporting on and evaluating tax/assurance utilization (firmwide)
• Closely monitor assurance/tax staff hours and schedules
• Assist Talent Deployment Manager and firm leadership to achieve utilization goals across all practice roles.
• Proactively address utilization matters with office and firm leadership
• Mediate conflicts and resolve resource needs that develop in office and/or region
• Proactively communicate potential staffing issues and provide information to allow for the effective deployment of resource
• Assign staff to engagements to ensure that resources are effectively deployed and staff workloads are balanced
• Promote and monitor the sharing of resources region-wide as well as firm-wide
• Lead office, region, and firmwide scheduling meetings

The qualifications.

• 3+ years of experience in a professional services/public accounting firm in either tax, audit, or scheduling role
• High School diploma or GED equivalent is required
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, or other business related field highly preferred
• Project management skills necessary to:
• • Meet project milestones
  • Make decisions when required
  • Monitor databases
  • Communicate clear objectives
  • Maintain and develop relationships with staff, Partners, and internal clients
  • Perform against tight deadlines
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) experience
• Role requires consistent travel to other regional offices

This is an exempt position, so you may have to work hours that exceed the standard 40-hour work week.

We are pleased to offer eligible staff a robust benefits package. Eligibility and contribution requirements for some of these benefits vary based on the number of hours staff work per week. Highlights include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance. In addition to this, eligible staff are able to take advantage of our Flexible Time Off and various pre-determined holidays, as well as a 401(k) plan, flexible benefits plans, business-related travel expense, lodging, and meal reimbursement for business-related use. A pension plan is also available for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff. A discretionary bonus plan is available for eligible staff. Plante Moran also offers some contingent staff positions the option to elect health insurance in addition to limited paid sick time.

The compensation range reflects the base salary we reasonably expect to pay for this position across our offices in the following regions: CO, IL, OH, and MA. Please review the position description for the applicable geographic location. Generally, experienced hires are not hired at or near the maximum salary range, as compensation decisions take into account a wide variety of factors, including but not limited to: responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. For early career roles, including campus hires, we offer standardized, market-based starting salaries among individuals within the same hiring group. This approach ensures fairness and reflects current industry benchmarks for entry-level talent.

The compensation range for this role in CO, IL, OH, and MA is: $67,500-$110,000

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