Talent Acquisition Specialist

The Role

Are you passionate about recruiting in the financial services sector and making a tangible impact on an organization? We would love to speak with you Let's talk Seeking candidates with deep Wealth Management recruitment experience. Heavy and seasoned recent Banking/Financial Services recruitment experience is a must have.

In this role, you will assist Hiring Managers in filling open positions by offering expert guidance and ensuring quality throughout the recruitment process. You will be responsible for creating and delivering excellent recruitment services and following the established service agreements. This role requires to use recruitment technology tools and manage end-to-end process. You'll engage directly with the client where you will give expert advice and manage their expectations at every stage of the hiring process.

Key Accountabilities

• Create and maintain trusted partner relationships with Senior hiring managers/stakeholders. Independent execution of the end-to-end delivery of recruitment services to them, providing counsel, advising through insight and SME knowledge on the recruitment process and ensuring that timelines are correctly identified and met
• Lead discussion on attraction strategies, working with hiring managers to correctly identify approach based on market and hiring demands
• Make recommendations for best fit and skills profile, coaching hiring managers on what may or may not be achievable

Recruitment Delivery

• Take full ownership to ensure the recruitment service is delivered in line with contractual obligations and client service level agreements
• Lead vacancy consultation discussions with hiring managers– this includes role requirements, sourcing strategy, DEI requirements, pay range, agreed timeframes, responsibilities of all involved, and the selection process
• Provide high-quality candidates for shortlist to the hiring manager
• Deliver excellent candidate experience, managing candidate satisfaction with the recruitment experience, from initial interview to start date
• Support the hiring manager with hiring decisions and guide them in determining an appropriate offer; lead the (often complex) offer process and negotiations to close the candidate
• Anticipate potential stakeholder issues within own area of expertise, taking action to address, and using judgement to escalate appropriately
• Proactively manage the future demand by facilitating demand planning meetings to discuss forecasts with client resourcing lead team
• Build proactive pipelining strategies and share insights with hiring managers to support strategic decision-making and execution outside of live demand. Reports regularly on progress of Talent Pool

Technology and Compliance

• Ensure that all changes to a candidate's status and requisition updates are tracked in real time in all relevant systems
• Ensure compliance with legislation affecting area of work (e.g. age discrimination, employment risks for contractors, OFCCP, data management techniques or similar local legislative requirements)
• Identify and track compliance risks in line with the overall AMS Risk Management Framework and suggest solutions.

Skills & Experience

You'll need to demonstrate:

• Experience of developing and delivering end-to-end recruitment campaign strategies to meet client requirements
• Proven experience in recruiting for financial services, ideally within investment banking
• Worked with, and presented to and solved issues for clients and candidates, including Hiring Managers
• Expert in behavioural / competency-based interviewing
• Experience of working to and achieving demanding targets, ratios and SLAs
• Able to demonstrate a broader understanding of the clients business and strategies and how they influence AMS Service Delivery
• Able to act autonomously, potentially responsible for own business areas on a standalone basis
• Understanding of legislation affecting area of work (e.g. age discrimination, employment risks for contractors)
• Expertise in various candidate sourcing strategies (e.g. web sourcing, networking, advertising and database searching)

Why Choose Us?

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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