Assurance Deployment Consultant

At ACs in India we are focused on attracting, developing and retaining high potential talent and achieving excellence in everything we do.

With innovation, growth and learning at our core, our people are able to make more possible and make our clients successful. We owe this success to our diverse and talented workforce. Therefore, it is our constant endeavor to attract the best talent and bring the best experiences and opportunities for our people. We do this by creating a culture of care and belonging, supporting their learning and growth thereby creating a strong people culture and engine of growth for PwC.

We are seeking an experienced and result-oriented Workforce Management professional with a strong understanding of workforce management concepts to lead our sector/practice resource deployment team. We are looking for dynamic professionals who can work with the business to predict future demand projections and optimize resource availability to assign best-fit staffing on projects. The suitable candidate will be responsible to assess the ongoing demand and capacity, determine personnel requirements based on staffing rules and regulatory compliance guidelines and collaborating on resource management with multiple teams within our organization.

As an AC Deployment Consultant, you will be responsible to meet all resource management KPIs for the assigned Sector/practice team. You will be the primary deployment POC for business stakeholders and will be expected to provide subject matter guidance, monitor and assess demand – capacity gaps, create effective staffing solutions, maneuver over/under staffing situations, enable cross teaming, upskilling and cross skilling of resources and provide proactive staffing solutions.

As a people manager, you will be responsible to coach, mentor and supervise your team, perform regular reviews of all deployment activities performed by your team, upskill/cross skill team members, provide career coaching and guidance, timely and quality focused delivery. You should be able to effectively understand and fulfil against stakeholder expectations, guiding and monitoring their adherence to deployment KPIs.

To ensure success as an AC Deployment Consultant, you should possess extensive domain knowledge in resource management, demand – supply planning, project-based staffing, capacity and headcount planning, demand and supply forecasting, capacity and bench management, scheduling and business analytics. A best fit will be someone who can accurately predict staffing needs and generate capacity to fulfil project demands.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyzing annual budget plans and generating capacity to enable effective staffing on projects based on scope of work, skills, prior experience, availability, compliance restrictions and project budget.
• Proactive capacity and headcount planning to minimize over/under staffing scenarios.
• Create effective staffing portfolios based on client needs, staffing preferences, business team structure, growth strategy, location strategy, resource utilization, client prioritization, staff continuity and other defined business rules.
• Demonstrate success against all business, operational and people management KPIs.
• Implement defined quality & risk controls to ensure 100% compliance on all regulatory requirements and business rules outlined in the deployment process narratives and SOPs.
• Consistent review of planning assumptions, demand growth, attrition and recruitment pipeline to minimize staffing gaps, reduce non billable time and optimize staffing during busy season staffing.
• Analyze and execute staffing solutions to meet unplanned demands.
• Collaborate with hiring managers, Talent acquisition team and LOS Operations on new hire allocations in accordance with open staffing needs, client succession planning and capacity analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement, process transformation, technology enablement and automation to create measurable efficiencies within the team.
• Create dashboards to monitor, analyze and report against key KPIs.
• Documenting processes and maintaining records.
• Stakeholder management – Create strong connects with stakeholders in the business, onshore deployment, Territory PMO, AC Solutions, cross AC deployers and IAC HC teams.
• Team management – Backup and succession planning, quality monitoring, performance evaluation, career guidance and overall supervision.

Key Skills and Experiences:

• Graduate or post-graduate in any workstream, with a good academic record.
• 8 – 10 years of relevant, post-qualification work experience in a reputed organization with a proven track record of career growth and stability.
• Must have at least 5 – 6 years of experience in managing business stakeholders.
• 1 – 2 years of experience in directly supervising team members will be preferred.
• Handson knowledge of working on staffing tools will be mandatory.
• Ability to analyze large data and identify trends to draw intelligent inferences and projections will be required.
• Prior resource management experience in Big 4s, Audit/Tax/accounting practice and/or financial services industry will be preferred.
• Client focused and solution-oriented mindset will be mandatory.
• Prior experience of working in and managing cross-location teams will be preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Excellent process documentation, articulation and presentation skills – knowledge in using MS Visio, PowerPoint and Google Slides to create impactful process flows and business presentations.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills with a proven record of multi-tasking and delivering under tight deadlines.
• Very strong people management skills.
• Prior experience in project management/change management/process transformation will be preferred.
• Working knowledge of Power BI, Spotfire, Tableau and Google Charts will be preferred

Travel Requirements

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