Overview

At KPMG in Canada, our people bring their unique perspectives to Canada’s most important challenges. Here, you can build momentum that reaches beyond our business, develop skills for the future, and take ownership of your career with support at every stage. Join a firm where your career can make a difference.

Your work matters. As part of our Audit & Assurance practice, you’ll deliver high-quality work that supports trust, transparency, and confidence across both public and private organizations. We foster an environment of high challenge, where curiosity and critical thinking are encouraged. Through high support, including progressive learning, strong coaching, inclusive teamwork, and a shared commitment to integrity, we perform at our best – measuring what matters, recognizing impact, and continuously evolving to deliver excellence. This creates a culture where the best work happens when high challenge and high support work together. That balance is how our values show up—in how we work, how we lead, and what we deliver.

The Resource Management team is part of KPMG’s National Audit & Assurance Resource Management Team, leading initiatives that centralize, standardize and automate processes to effectively deploy resources in support of high quality, efficient audits.

Key responsibilities include mentoring and supporting the GEO Resource Management Team, optimizing resource allocation and capacity planning, and maintaining strong relationships with Audit & Assurance leadership.

The role also supports forecasting and capacity analysis related to hiring, attrition, promotions, and other workforce metrics to deliver data-driven insights that improve resource allocation and utilization.

What you will do

• Documentation of System of Quality Management (SoQM) Controls, including follow-up with Leadership and resources, and working with National SoQM team with process updates.
• In conjunction with Leadership, monitor monthly and annual headcount plans.
• Lead and coach a GEO Resource Management Team. Drive consistency within the GEO in implementing and executing National Resource Management guidelines.
• Support and contribute improvements to National Resource Management tools and processes such as Firmwide Scheduling Tool, Standard Reporting, and Engagement Budget Tool.
• Produce and provide input to Leadership with utilization reports, forecasts, and variance reports.
• Understand engagements that require staffing. Identify available resources, matching skills with engagement requirements. Where required, facilitate the use of resources from within other GEOs.
• Provide advanced warning of resource availability to GEO Leadership and National Resource Management Team.
• Proactively monitor and measure process and systems compliance for all assigned resources. Ensure that chargeable and non-chargeable time for all levels are up to date in the scheduling tool.
• Support staffing across GEO and facilitate conflict resolution with respect to staffing.
• Utilizing our engagement budget tool, work with engagement teams to allocate resources for new client engagements and maintain schedules of existing engagements.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders including Learning and Development, Audit Quality, Audit Operations, National Resource Managers and Leaders across Audit, Tax and Advisory.
• Engage regularly with Develop Partners, Functional Managing Partners, Audit & Assurance Partners, and Resource Managers across the country.
• Drive process consistency and efficiency across GEO.