VP, Engineering Workforce Strategy & Planning

BNY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Vice President of Workforce Planning in New York to drive workforce strategy, headcount planning, and senior decision support within the Engineering F&BM organization. This role combines finance, talent, and business strategy to guide investments aligned with financial targets and transformation objectives.

Responsibilities include headcount forecasting, scenario analysis, and partnering with engineering leadership to align plans with budgets and cycles, while delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) preferred.
• 6-8 years of relevant experience preferred.
• Strong background in workforce planning, financial planning and analysis, management reporting, or organizational strategy preferred.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, with the ability to translate workforce data into business insights and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support workforce planning activities for Engineering, including headcount forecasting, hiring demand, attrition assumptions, and organizational capacity analysis.
• Partner with Engineering F&BM leadership to align workforce plans with budget, forecast, and strategic planning cycles.
• Develop robust headcount and workforce models to support annual planning, quarterly forecasts, and ad hoc scenario analysis.
• Provide insights on workforce drivers including hiring pipeline, vacancy trends, contractor mix, internal mobility, productivity, and span/layer considerations.
• Support decision making on role prioritization, location strategy, resourcing trade-offs, and investment allocation across engineering teams.
• Analyze workforce-related financial impacts, including compensation trends, open roles, run-rate implications, and variance to plan.
• Collaborate with Finance and the People Team to ensure workforce assumptions are accurate, consistent, and aligned across planning processes.
• Prepare materials for senior management reviews, including workforce updates, risks, opportunities, and strategic recommendations.
• Identify structural risks and opportunities in the workforce model, including critical skills gaps, capacity constraints, and efficiency opportunities.
• Drive enhancements to workforce reporting, governance, and planning processes to improve transparency and decision support.
• Contribute to broader organizational planning and support leadership decision-making on strategic workforce investments.
• Operate independently on complex workforce analyses and planning initiatives.

Skills

Workforce planning

Financial planning & analysis

Management reporting

Organizational strategy

Analytical & modeling skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, Business, or related field

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Job description

BNY is seeking a Vice President of Workforce Planning in New York to drive workforce strategy, headcount planning, and senior decision support within the Engineering F&BM organization. This role combines finance, talent, and business strategy to guide investments aligned with financial targets and transformation objectives.

Responsibilities include headcount forecasting, scenario analysis, and partnering with engineering leadership to align plans with budgets and cycles, while delivering