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Senior Resource Manager - Audit & Risk Assurance

Employer
PwC
Location
London (Central)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
14 Nov 2019

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A career in Resourcing and Deployment, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to work in cross line of service staffing helping our network be even more agile in the ever evolving markets we work with, providing the right people on the right projects at the right time. You’ll focus on ensuring that resources of suitable skills and calibre are available for tasks and activities as required as well as managing the education, planning, and skills enhancement associated with resources.About the role

This is an exciting time for Resource Management as we build on the professionalism of our people and work closely with the business to develop and implement the commercial and people strategy.

To support the creation of our two new lines of service, we have an opportunity for a senior manager, reporting to the Assurance Team Leader with no direct reports, who will contribute to operational excellence, project activity and transition activity across Audit and Risk Assurance Resourcing.

The role can be based from anywhere in the UK and the key responsibilities and key attributes of the role are below


Key responsibilities

Operational excellence

  • Drive future deployment priorities between the business units and LoS, ensuring an optimal outcome for the LoS as a whole.

  • Provide support and challenge to the business units to achieve business priorities in a collaborative and fair way.

  • Act as an escalation point for the BU RM teams when managing their resourcing outlooks/ conflicts.

  • Understand, mitigate risks and execute LoS priorities around future deployment, headcount levels and mobility.

  • Owns resourcing activities within the national and global parts of each LoS (excluding DDM).

  • Provides LoS wide insight to drive appropriate business decisions in the LoS


  • Project activity

  • Oversee the programme of LoS resourcing projects ensuring that clear deliverables and milestones are in place with benefits and risks monitored.

  • Support the RM Team Leader managing commercial, regulatory, people experience activities during business transformation


  • Transition activity

  • Owns the portfolio of transition activities across the LoS - ensuring successful and timely delivery of transition project activity in a coordinated and timely way.

  • Provides support to the RM team through this transition period.

  • Key attributes we are looking for include:Technical Expertise:Deployment and Manpower Planning

    Monitoring progress regularly against goals and objectives

    Providing a strategic focus on deployment and workforce utilisation

    Driving change and project management initiatives

    Knowledge and SkillsRelationship Skills including communicating and Influencing

    Develop and sustain long term relationships with key stakeholders

    Promote One RM as an integral partner, driving the success of the business

    Strategy and Change ManagementShaping and driving the firm’s agenda in One RM

    Demonstrating agile thinking and innovative problem solving

    Leading on the identification, design and implementation of change, managing risks and working with stakeholders to drive initiatives in line with strategy

    Stakeholder ManagementAnticipating the issues and concerns of the stakeholders and providing strategic advice and support

    Providing long term and sustainable solutions to the business

    Commercial Acumen and Financial Management Asking the big questions of the business and looking more broadly for solutions across lines of service and

    Removing obstacles to create opportunities to help deliver our strategic objectives

    Utilising information effectively to lead organizational thinking

    Challenging, sharing and connecting across the business

    Monitoring trends and developments and sharing this among the team and peers


    Not the role for you?

    Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

    The skills we look for in future employees

    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, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

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    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. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

    Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity

    Company

    Our values define how we do things. And our purpose is why we exist - now more than ever - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and our communities. In a world we no longer recognise, we need to rely on the strength and agility of our people to help us to navigate these uncertain times.

    We're committed to ensuring that care and our people's wellbeing remains central to our culture. While we may not know what’s ahead, we can do all we can to help shape the future. As we continue to navigate this unprecedented time, it’s important that we support our people, to help them take care of themselves and to ensure the right support is available when it’s needed.

    For now, we ask you to join our talent network and stay in touch with what’s happening in real time, including new possibilities as they arise. Visit our website for more information on how we’re responding to this pandemic and what changes we’re making to our recruitment process. 

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    At PwC our culture drives our success and gives us a sustainable advantage, and we want to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to work in a way that works best for them and help them become the best that they can be. To support our flexible work environment we’ve evolved our dress code policy to “dress for your day”. This reflects the trust we have in our employees to decide what they think is appropriate given their daily responsibilities.

    Flexible Talent Network/Flexible working

    We’re looking for talented professionals we can deploy on a recurring basis across all areas of  PwC, depending on our business needs. The way you work is up to you, whether that’s full-time, part-time, term-time or reduced hours, just let us know and we’ll try and match you to a suitable role. As well as wide ranging opportunities across our business, we have a specific need for qualified accountants to work during our busy season and a programme supporting those returning to work after a break.

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    As a leading professional services network we’re confident we can offer outstanding training and development opportunities, exposure to multi-disciplinary teams, and support from industry-leading experts. Discover where your talent could take you and join an employer focused on helping you reach your full potential.

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