Aprio PH - Tax Resource Manager, Workforce Optimization

Work with a Top 20 CPA and advisory firm that Accounts for Anything. Aprio has 40 U.S. office locations, as well as international office locations and more than 3,200 team members that speak 60+ languages across the globe. By bringing together proven expertise, deep understanding, and strategic foresight for fast-growing industries, Aprio ensures clients are prepared for wherever life or business may take them. Discover a top-rated culture, vast growth opportunities and your next big career move with Aprio.

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.

Key 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.
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esolve 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.

Key Outcomes

• 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.

Core Capabilities

• 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.

Required 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.
• Work Setup: Hybrid – Initial 2 months onsite, followed by a hybrid schedule of 2 days onsite and 3 days work-from-home per week.
• Work location is either at our Clark or Makati site.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Perks/Benefits We Offer For Full-time Team Members

• Wellness program
• HMO coverage
• Rewards and Recognition program
• Free shuttle service (provided by CDC | for onsite employees)
• Free lunch meal (For onsite employees)
• On-demand learning classes
• Discretionary time off and Holidays
• Performance-based salary increase
• Discretionary incentive compensation based on client or individual performance
• Hybrid set up to selected roles/location, terms and conditions may apply
• CPA & Certification Assistance and Bonus Program

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.
• A great team: Work with a high-energy, passionate, caring, and ambitious team of professionals in a collaborative culture.
• Growth opportunities: Grow professionally in an environment that fosters continuous learning and advancement.
• Competitive compensation: You will be rewarded with competitive compensation.

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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.