Manage workforce resource allocation, capacity planning, forecasting, utilization, and staffing across client engagements. Partner with practice and resource leaders to resolve conflicts, balance workloads, maintain workforce data, and improve deployment decisions. Lead resource alignment meetings, monitor operational KPIs, identify staffing risks and skills gaps, and support workforce planning processes, reporting tools, and strategic initiatives.
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Join Aprio's Resource Management team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Resource Manager to join their dynamic team.
The Resource Manager aligns workforce capacity, skills, and availability with engagement demand. This role owns resource allocation, resolves staffing risks, improves utilization and leverage, and provides leadership with data-driven workforce insights to support operational and financial objectives. Responsibilities include staffing, capacity planning, forecasting, resource optimization, and cross-functional workforce coordination.
Position Responsibilities:
- Allocate resources based on skills, experience level, availability, timing, and engagement requirements.
- Partner with practice leaders, job managers, and resource pod leaders to balance workloads and align staffing with client commitments.
- Monitor capacity, utilization, leverage, scheduled-versus-actual performance, and forecast accuracy; identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
- Resolve staffing conflicts, urgent resource needs, delays, and workload imbalances while communicating decisions and schedule changes effectively.
- Maintain accurate resource plans, schedules, open needs, placeholders, skills inventories, and workforce data across resource management systems.
- Lead recurring resource alignment meetings focused on supply and demand, staffing decisions, cross-utilization, forecasting, and workforce risks.
- Manage workforce forecasting and capacity planning to identify future demand, skills gaps, staffing requirements, and hiring needs.
- Coordinate cross-pod, onshore, offshore, outsourced, and integration-related staffing activities to optimize resource deployment.
- Oversee preparation pools and unassigned-work queues to ensure timely staffing and workload progression.
- Support adoption of workforce planning processes, reporting tools, resource management systems, and strategic workforce planning initiatives.
- Right people assigned to the right work at the right time.
- Balanced workloads and improved utilization and leverage.
- Accurate demand forecasts and workforce capacity plans.
- Timely identification and resolution of staffing risks and conflicts.
- Greater visibility and transparency into workforce decisions and resource allocation.
- Consistent workforce planning that supports client service, operational efficiency, and business growth.
- Workforce planning, resource allocation, and capacity management.
- Workforce analytics, KPI reporting, and data-driven decision making.
- Forecasting, demand planning, and resource optimization.
- Stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
- Strong business acumen, communication, and organizational skills.
- Process improvement, operational excellence, and workforce data governance.
Key Responsibilities
Key Outcomes
Core Capabilities
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Operations, Finance, Project Management, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Tax resource management, workforce planning, project staffing, operations, or a related discipline.
- Experience managing resource allocation, capacity planning, utilization, and workforce forecasting.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret workforce, utilization, and operational performance data.
- Experience using workforce management, project management, scheduling, and reporting tools.
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, balance competing priorities, and resolve staffing conflicts.
- Strong communication, facilitation, relationship management, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in professional services, consulting, accounting, tax, audit, or another project-based environment.
- Experience with strategic workforce planning, skills inventory management, and capacity modeling.
- Experience with ProStaff, Power BI, Workday, Practice Engine, CCH Workflow, or similar workforce and reporting platforms.
- Knowledge of utilization, leverage, forecasting, demand planning, and workforce optimization methodologies.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), workforce planning certification, or related credential.
- Strategic thinker with a strong operational mindset.
- Data-driven decision maker who uses analytics to improve workforce outcomes.
- Collaborative partner who builds alignment across leadership, operations, and client service teams.
- Effective communicator who navigates ambiguity and makes timely staffing decisions.
- Continuous improvement mindset
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Success Profile
The application window is anticipated to close on 10/31/2026 and may be extended as needed.
Why work for Aprio:
Whether you are just starting out, looking to advance into management or searching for your next leadership role, Aprio offers an opportunity to grow with a future-focused, innovative firm.
Perks/Benefits we offer for full-time team members:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
- Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
- 401k with Profit Sharing
- 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
- Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
- Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
- Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
- Top rated wellness program
- Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options
What’s in it for you:
- Working with an industry leader: Be part of a high-growth firm that is passionate for what’s next.
- An awesome culture: Thirty-one fundamental behaviors guide our culture every day ensuring we always deliver an exceptional team-member and client experience. We call it the Aprio Way. This shared mindset creates lasting relationships between team members and with clients.
- A great team: Work with a high-energy, passionate, caring and ambitious team of professionals in a collaborative culture.
- Entrepreneurship: Have the freedom to innovate and bring your ideas to help us grow to become the CPA firm of choice nationally.
- Growth opportunities: Grow professionally in an environment that fosters continuous learning and advancement.
- Competitive compensation: You will be rewarded with competitive compensation, industry-leading benefits and a flexible work environment to enjoy work/life balance.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Aprio is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex; pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Aprio, LLP and Aprio Advisory Group, LLC, operate in an alternative business structure, with Aprio Advisory Group, LLC providing non-attest tax and consulting services, and Aprio, LLP providing CPA firm services.
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