Job Description
Are you looking for your next career move within forecasting ?
As a Forecast Analyst within the Workforce Planning team, you will be tasked with generating short, medium, and long-term forecasts, as well as determining Average Handle Time (AHT) and staffing needs for the business. Your role will involve ensuring business objectives are achieved through the proficient management of forecasting models, cooperative planning, and effective communication. In a constantly evolving environment, your adaptability to change and proactive approach in daily tasks will be crucial.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform Daily/Weekly/Monthly and half -hourly forecasting for contact volumes across multiple channels and contact types determining staffing requirements based on historical trends and business growth objectives.
- Account for growth, changes in customer behaviours and taking into consideration seasonal variations and trends ensuring impacts to the business are captured, analysed and recommendations of staffing are delivered in a timely manner
- Establish a statistical baseline forecast for all departments and provides clear communication of the forecasted workload, changes, assumptions, inputs to relevant stakeholders
- Analyze forecast vs demand volumes
- Maintaining the intraday patterns on WFM platform
- Work together with the other members of the Planning team to ensure understanding/requirements with our scheduling/Real time teams
- Perform ad hoc duties as assigned
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills :
- Experience in long/short Term forecasting within a workforce planning environment
- Understanding of long/short term forecasting within Call/Contact Centre
- Strong planning, time management, analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.)
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong Experience in business analysis, reporting of business data, problem identification, resolution, and root cause analysis
- Ability to partner and work collaboratively with others
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders at a variety of levels
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience with Workforce Management systems
- Experience in Call/Contact Centre workforce management within a banking or financial services environment is beneficial
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About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
Operations teams develop and manage innovative, secure service solutions to meet clients' needs globally. Developing and using the latest technology, teams work to deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it easy and convenient to do business with the firm. Teams also drive growth by refining technology-driven customer and client experiences that put users first, providing an unparalleled experience.
