About The Back Room

We exist to free our clients' time so they can focus on what they do best — growing their business. We deliver smart, efficient solutions that liberate teams from the everyday admin, and we hold ourselves to the same standard. Time is the ultimate currency, and we treat it like it.

About the Client
Our client is one of the UK's leading accountancy and business advisory firms, supporting ambitious businesses, entrepreneurs, and private clients with accounting, tax, audit, and advisory services. They are continuing to grow their offshore team to support their cloud accounting operations and deliver high-quality financial services to a diverse portfolio of owner-managed businesses.

The Role
As Resource Manager, you'll oversee how our audit team and offshore consultants get deployed — matching people to client needs, forecasting future demand, and keeping utilisation and capacity data accurate across the department. You'll manage the Resource Coordinators, maintain the skills matrix, and act as the key point of contact for resolving scheduling conflicts before they become problems. It's a hands-on, high-visibility role at the centre of how the business runs day to day.

What You'll Do

• Responsible for deployment of resources to match client demand/deadlines, location and skills of the team

• Work closely with stakeholders and the wider coordinator team to find solutions for resourcing conflicts, monitor client information flow, and redistribute resource to reduce ‘idle time’

• Maintain the resource reporting data to provide a clear picture to management on capacity

• Has an understanding for headcount levels in their business unit to enable fair work allocation/portfolio building and feed into wider recruitment/promotion needs

• Monitor and manage utilisation levels across all grades. Ensuing planned over and underutilisation is challenged, flagged or escalated to relevant stakeholders

• Update our resource planner for any new recruits and leavers, allocating/reallocating jobs and training based on skillsets and training needs

• Ensure that processes implemented by the resourcing team are followed by all stakeholders within the business including holiday booking/study leave /non chargeable projects etc

• Maintain an internal skills matrix and use this to allocate work accordingly

• Work closely with our training manager and student support manager to allocate time out of the business for internal training courses, college and exams

• Provide regular data driven insight to Senior audit resource manager/ key stakeholders on upcoming capacity, peaks and conflicts to help enable and drive business decisions

What We're Looking For

• Can hold difficult conversations, challenge senior stakeholders and is resilient

• Experience working with various different stakeholders

• Can prioritise effectively with incredible time management

• At least 3 years’ experience working as a resource manager, ideally supporting

• Resourcing/scheduling needs for audit teams or otherwise in accountancy

• A real team player, ready to jump in and support the team when needed

Why This Role

You'll have real ownership and influence, working directly with senior stakeholders and helping shape decisions on capacity, recruitment, and resourcing strategy. We back that with a flexible approach to work, generous holiday, no dress code, and a multi-award-winning wellbeing offering that supports you beyond just the day job. At Cooper Parry, we're in it together — you'll be trusted, supported, and given the space to grow your career your way.

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