Location: United States, Michigan, Flint Location: United States, Michigan, Auburn Hills Location: United States, Michigan, Macomb Location: United States, Ohio, Cincinnati Location: United States, Ohio, Columbus Location: United States, Ohio, Cleveland Make your mark. Our internal firm services team focuses on the firm's critical business needs. From administrative support to scheduling client engagements and everything in between, our integrated solution approach is designed to help enable and manage growth, leverage resources, and optimize firm operations. At Plante Moran, we have the privilege of serving clients and providing consultative services as they face challenges and seek new opportunities. What does diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to Plante Moran? It means that all staff members have equitable and fair opportunities to succeed, in an inclusive environment, with their individual, unique identities. Plante Moran enjoys a "Workplace for Your Day" model which, simply put, means we strive for flexibility and balance while staying true to our principally in-person model. We believe that face-to-face interactions are paramount for individual and collective development, but also encourage individuals to work with their supervisor and team to determine their optimal working environment each day. Your role. Your work will include, but not be limited to: Initiate and facilitate regular assessments with managers to discuss upcoming assignments, scheduling needs, or capacity, including evaluation of budgets in comparison of scheduling needs and historical actuals Manage the staffing/scheduling process for the office/region and department Collaborate with office leadership to achieve office utilization goals of staff and meet recommended industry group mix requirements for staff roles Update data in scheduling system as required to ensure that system schedules agree to assignments communicated by managers Create scheduling system reports on a regular basis to help in making decisions about allocating resources across the office and/or regions Assist Talent Deployment Manager in reporting on and evaluating tax/assurance utilization (firmwide) Closely monitor assurance/tax staff hours and schedules Assist Talent Deployment Manager and firm leadership to achieve utilization goals across all practice roles. Proactively address utilization matters with office and firm leadership Mediate conflicts and resolve resource needs that develop in office and/or region Proactively communicate potential staffing issues and provide information to allow for the effective deployment of resources Assign staff to engagements to ensure that resources are effectively deployed and staff workloads are balanced Promote and monitor the sharing of resources region-wide as well as firm-wide Participate/Lead office, region and firmwide scheduling meetings The qualifications. Position requires 1-3 years experience in a professional services/public accounting firm in either tax, audit, or scheduling role. Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, or other business related field highly preferred. Ability to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, performing a variety of complicated tasks Project management skills necessary to: Meet project milestones Make decisions when required Monitor databases Communicate clear objectives Maintain and develop relationships with staff, Partners, and internal clients Perform against tight deadlines Must be detail oriented and able to multitask effectively Strong self-motivation balanced with a desire to achieve team goals Expert level skills with MS Office (especially Power Point and Excel) Ability to coordinate information flow with multiple sources (Management, Partnership, team, staff, etc.) Strong te