Resource Planning Senior

About the role

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. This role is responsible for the deployment of practitioners/consultants across client engagements and internal initiatives.

This role partners closely with engagement leaders, practice leadership, and talent teams to balance workloads, forecast demand, identify skill and capacity gaps, and align staffing decisions with business priorities, deadlines, and budget considerations.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day staffing and scheduling for an assigned pool of practitioners/consultants, ensuring timely placement aligned to engagement needs, skill requirements, location constraints, and cost considerations.
• Prioritize and fulfill staffing requests based on client requirements, time constraints, and budget parameters; recommend alternatives when constraints exist.
• Maintain an up-to-date view of capacity, availability, and skill inventory across the resource pool; proactively communicate availability and constraints to engagement and practice leaders.
• Collect and analyze demand signals from project/engagement leaders to forecast near-term and mid-term staffing needs; surface capacity risks and recommend mitigation actions.
• Monitor and manage key productivity measures such as utilization/billability, bench time, staffing lead time, assignment duration, and time-to-fill; produce routine summaries for leadership.
• Coordinate with leaders to align staffing assignments with practitioner development goals and monitor professional development activity indicators.
• Build strong working relationships with engagement leaders, people leaders, and talent partners; provide consultative guidance on staffing tradeoffs and resource options.

Requirements

• 5 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in business operations, project management or related field preferred.
• Bachelor's degree is required; combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Degree in Business Management, Project Management, or related field preferred.

Benefits

CLA offers comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.