KPMG
Director - One Firm Resource Management - (Maternity Cover)
- Contract
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
- Urgent
Job overview
Date posted
19/06/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 50,000 - 60,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Director
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
03/08/2025
Job description
We are recruiting for a 7-month contract maternity cover to lead a team of resourcing consultants across onshore and offshore locations. This role involves driving strategic workforce planning, leading the annual budgeting and resourcing process, managing deployment for over 700 consultants, and acting as the primary contact for senior stakeholders. The position demands a high level of data accuracy, conflict resolution, and stakeholder engagement, using tools such as Power BI and Retain. The role supports strategic objectives and the implementation of a regional resourcing model while coaching the team and collaborating across functions.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead a team of 4 resourcing consultants (on & offshore) driving process and best practice across the service line
- Be responsible for the resourcing of over 700 consultants across two countries
- Lead and re-define the annual budgeting and staffing process
- Help define a regional resourcing model for the Middle East in line with clustering
- Act as the main point of contact for assigned portfolios, delivering the day-to-day deployment requirements
- Ensure Retain is the one source of truth for all staff planning data
- Act as an escalation point for the resourcing team, providing solutions
- Manage resourcing conflicts and priorities
- Develop excellent working relationship with key stakeholders such as the Head of Audit, Audit COO, Audit Partner & Director Group
- Monitor Emirati utilization and ensure they are appropriately coached and leveraged on audit engagements
- Leverage offshore / contingent workforce options
- Build relationships with regional resourcing counterparts (Saudi Arabia & others)
- Use PowerBI and other reporting tools to bring insights to leadership and mitigate potential risk to utilization
- Coach and upskill the team
- Share best practice with Tax & Advisory Resource Management Teams
- Take an active role in resource management projects and initiatives
- Support delivery of strategic objectives and manage any resultant change
- Understand pipeline opportunities to enable appropriate decisions about available resources
Experience & skills
- 8+ years resource management experience
- Senior stakeholder management - strong relationship skills including communicating and influencing
- Experience in leading a team
- Familiar with the budget cycle and conflict management
- Confident in implementing change
- Ability to manage conflicting deadlines and priorities
- Ability to use management information to drive decision making
- Commercially minded with ability to influence business outcomes