Talent Acquisition Specialist

Ideas | People | Trust We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them. We’ll broaden your horizons Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential.

They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships. 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. The 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;
Business Thinking 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. Communicating:
Keep up-to-date with market trends and provide regular updates to your business areas as appropriate – this includes but is not exclusive 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 exclusive 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…