Director, Workforce Planning & Analysis
Horizon Media
- New York City, NY
- $145,000-170,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Steward financial rigor and strategic insights for Horizon and Affiliates
- Apply advanced workforce planning techniques and tools (e.g., scenario modeling/planning, demand forecasting, trend analysis, predictive modeling) to provide insight and recommendations on workforce plans
- Work with all business stakeholders in the continuous improvement of the staffing management processes
- Develop and communicate key performance indicators with regards to staffing metrics, staffing utilization, scope creep, including ad-hoc analyses and special projects
- Facilitate the sharing of best practices across the Agency
- Refine and maintain quarterly client dashboard reports, portfolio profitability and team productivity analysis by business leader to promote a culture of accountability
- Prioritize and perform ad-hoc, deep-dive analysis and projections to help better inform business leaders
- Work closely with the FP&A team to understand and ensure accurate revenue reporting by client
- Provide variance analysis of actual results vs. plan/forecast by client
- Review reoccurring reporting, such as hours & FTE, profitability, pacing and utilization, weekly, monthly, and quarterly prepared by the Manager, WPA
- Gather, analyze, and share internal and external data to identify economic trends, demographic shifts, and capabilities that will impact the demand and supply of talent
- Maintain staffing utilization analyses and identify hot spots
- Refine and maintain add to staff approval process
- Partner closely with Managing Partners to develop, refine, and price staffing plans by client
- Maintain open communication with Business Solutions leads and Chief Business Solutions Officer
- Build an understanding of the business in order to ask necessary questions to further the work
- Anticipate business needs of the Managing Partners based on best practices
- Mentor and develop junior team members
- Maintain and improve procedures and policies of financial management at HMI
- Assist in development and implementation of future process improvements
- Growth and development of Manager, pending team size and structure
- Thorough understanding of existing team and agency templates and/or process documents
- Innovate and iterate upon these based on previous experience coupled with a curiosity to learn and better the practice
- Understand and provide backup on the day-to-day aspects of the time tracking system, Replicon
- Understand and provide backup for online ticketing system to track ad-hoc reporting requests
- Assist in long-term search for new time tracking system
- An innovator with the ability to drive change
- Able to research and analyze, problem solve, and offer insights and recommendations
- Organized with a strong sense of time management, clearly relaying status of tasks and deliverables
- An excellent communicator, able to work with all members of the organization and all levels of management
- A strong attention to detail and keen eye for accuracy
- Able to work independently as well as within a team environment
- An analytical and critical thinker, with the ability to tell a story backed by data
- Detailed oriented and have the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- A proactive, self-motivator with the ability to learn quickly
- Maintain a positive attitude and be able to adapt to changes
- A leader in the practice, able to influence relevant stakeholders
- A supporter and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- 8+ years of experience in financial analysis/reporting, including ad hoc reporting, variance analysis and budgeting
- Exceptional MS Excel skills
- Experience with IBM PA a plus