Talent Acquisition Specialist

cord ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent recruitment firm in Greater London is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist focusing on the Tax stream. You will be responsible for recruiting high-quality candidates and developing innovative resourcing strategies. Your role involves collaborating with senior stakeholders and playing a key part in enhancing the firm's employer brand. Strong communication skills and prior recruitment experience are essential. The position offers opportunities for professional growth in a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Previous in-house or RPO Tax recruitment experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist is strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication and negotiating skills.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Recruit all approved vacancies with a focus on quality of hire.
• Develop and deliver a resourcing strategy for your business area.
• Act as a trusted advisor to key stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates on recruitment activity.
• Utilize relevant recruitment resources and social media.

Skills

Salary benchmarking

Candidate sourcing

Excellent communication

Negotiating skills

Tools

Workday

Job description

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

In line with the firm’s ambitious and progressive vision and strategy, resourcing and talent management plays a key role in its delivery. You will act as a Talent Acquisition Specialist to support the firm’s Tax stream - London Tax Group and BDO's northern offices. The role will be based in our Baker Street office.

You will be working within a small, tax focused recruitment team, and will have sole responsibility for your own business areas, building relationships with senior level stakeholders and working with them to understand their future business needs. This is an exciting opportunity to not only deliver good people, but also to directly influence strategic and innovative resourcing solutions to attract top talent. In this role you’ll also;

• Recruit all approved vacancies within the business areas with a key focus on quality of hire, ensuring that the service lines are supplied with the best quality candidates possible.
• Develop knowledge and understanding of the service line to a sufficiently high level in order to become an ambassador for the employer brand and an expert when representing the department and the firm.
• Proactively develop and deliver a resourcing strategy for your business area; provide monthly progress updates to the People Manager against the plan.
• Support on the design, implementation and evaluation of stream and firm wide resourcing projects.
• Identify potential risks, take steps to mitigate any risk in the recruitment process and align to ISQM1 and FRC requirements. Escalation of non-compliance where applicable.
• Act as a trusted advisor to key stakeholders and engage with your sourcing advisor, to ensure that the most effective and cost-efficient sourcing strategy is utilised at all times. Provision of progress updates on an agreed basis.
• Keep up-to-date with market trends and provide regular updates to your business areas as appropriate — this includes but is not limited to; provision of market intelligence, competitor recruitment activity, salary benchmarking data and resourcing best practice.
• Provide regular updates to your business stakeholders on all recruitment activity. This includes but is not limited to; vacancy updates, referral rates, supplier performance, direct sourcing cost savings and recruitment spend. Making improvement recommendations where applicable.
• To prepare agendas and chair regular stakeholder meetings, at agreed timescales. Take ownership of documenting outputs and circulating minutes post meeting.
• To actively utilise all relevant recruitment resources and social media in line with our brand and values to promote career opportunities. This includes use of clear job adverts used to advertise roles externally and social cards on LinkedIn.
• Adapt style when delivering to various levels, methods and audiences.
• Ensure that quality recruitment decisions are made by ensuring all direct candidates are screened and that all candidates are interviewed and assessed, consistently and against the AMP question banks.
• Be proactive, assess the risks and consider the root cause of issues raised to provide the best solution.
• Manage priorities appropriately, working with the business & Resourcing team to ensure time frames and SLAs are met.
• To use Workday data and dashboards to support resourcing conversations, provide guidance and make recommendations to support resourcing decisions.
• Provide expert advice on interview process and structure, whilst continually developing your knowledge of assessment strategies to influence quality of hire.
• Actively utilise all relevant recruitment resources and social media in line with our brand and values to promote career opportunities to increase the number of direct hires, including the ownership of sourcing and screening such candidates.
• Provide support and guidance to Resourcing Coordinators & Sourcing team in the delivery of their role.
• Provide expert advice on the design and structure of job descriptions, ensuring roles are represented in a clear, concise and appealing fashion.
• Provide coaching and support to managers on all areas of the recruitment process.
• Ensure continuing professional development is up to date at all times.
• Proactively foster relationships and leverage the firm’s employer brand to build and maintain a continuous pipeline of quality candidates.
• Work in partnership with other areas of HR — reward, benefits and Global Mobility to ensure the best candidate experience from attraction through to on-boarding.
• Identify and represent the Firm in external networking, recruitment and business events.
• Organise and lead supplier events across your business areas, to ensure high level engagement from our agencies.
• Provide support to your colleagues during periods of absence and annual leave.
• Establish and maintain effective networks and relationships with both internal and external resources/stakeholders to promote and identify referral opportunities.
• Provide robust challenge and innovative solutions to workforce planning.
• Identify and develop potential improvements on use of both Workday and the recruitment process, to ensure operational efficiency.
• Proactively monitor the supply chain in your business area and make recommendations for additional support where required.
• Proactively deal with difficult situations, seeking support as required and use experience to develop self and others.
• Be aware of and comply with the firm’s policies at all times.
• Any other duties appropriate to the grade and level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the necessary experience and/or training.
• Be aware of the firm’s risk management and practice assurance procedures and ensure compliance.

Requirements

• Previous in-house or RPO Tax recruitment experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist is strongly preferred, other professional services experience will also be of benefit.
• Excellent communication and negotiating skills, comfortable challenging the status quo and input, extract only relevant job content.

Core Skills: Salary benchmarking, Candidate sourcing; Other Skills: Hiring; Seniority: Senior, Lead