EY Workforce Planner - Assurance 

New Zealand, Auckland, Auckland 

740383718

Mā te kahukura ka rere te manu I With wings a bird will fly

We bring together extraordinary people, like you, to build a better working world.

Kei a koe te mana I The choice is yours

As ouryou’ll be responsible for connecting people to the experiences which enrich the lives and careers of our Assurance professionals. Working as part of a broader Oceania resource team, you will be responsible for applying consistent resource planning across a range of engagements for our New Zealand client practice and will work closely with the business to ensure all staffing needs are met. You will be overseeing client portfolio of our resources across our Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington offices.

This is a permanent, full-time role based in Auckland.

Ō Pūmanawa I What we’re looking for

Here’s our ‘wish list’ but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your strengths, what you want to learn, and how far you want to go.

• Experience with resource management and/or supply and demand management within professional services.
• Ability to understand the business and learn the unique skills, needs and goals of our people.
• Ability to find the right opportunities and connections to create diverse, inclusive and high-performing teams.
• Able to optimise business performance by advocating solutions, providing insights and managing expectations in pursuit of increasing utilisation and employee engagement.
• Demonstrating personal leadership and having presence, vitality and agility.
• Experience in using MS Excel and information/data analysis with a high degree of accuracy.
• Confident communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities within the business and operational market.
• Strong conflict resolution and negotiating skills to balance individual and business needs.
• Demonstrates a positive attitude and strong personal integrity and ability to work autonomously.

Your key responsibilities

• Stakeholder and Relationship management – responsible for managing key relationships within and across Assurance.
• Opportunity and Demand – work with engagement managers to actively allocate resources, challenge hours, timing and flexibility of engagements to find suitable resources.
• Resource management – actively managing our available resources, understanding their capability and proactively identifying opportunities and resolving resourcing conflicts.
• Resource optimisation – highlighting capability across the team and wider Assurance to optimise performance and meeting engagement metrics.
• Developing and analysing resource management reports – engagement planning trends, utilisation, production.
• Identifying and implementing improvements in resourcing processes and reporting.

Kuhu mai ki a EY I Come, be a part of EY

• Explore how a career at EY is yours to build at

• Discover how, when and where you can work at

• Learn about our commitment to DE&I at

• Discover the various ways our benefits can cater to your needs, across wellness, financial wellbeing, and family-friendly policies which include 26 weeks gender neutral paid parental leave at

• We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation depending on skills and experience.

Apply now… we’re over 1,000 perspectives in Aotearoa New Zealand and we’re ready to welcome yours.

Our preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or our external third-party provider.