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 relevant recruitment resources and social media in line with our brand and values to promote career opportunities. This includes use of clear job adverts are used to advertise roles externally and social cards on Linked In.
• Adapt style when delivering to various levels, methods and audiences

Decision Making:

• 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 SLA’s 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

Developing Self & Others:

• 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 the 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.

Collaborating

• Proactively foster relationships and leverage the firms 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

Innovating & Change:

• 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.

Other

• 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 

You'll be someone with:

• 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 influencing and driving change whilst maintaining strong relationships
• Outstanding stakeholder management and client focus 
• Good business acumen with proven ability to build rapid credibility 
• Proven ability to collaborate and influence key stakeholders, peers and senior management
• An independent problem solver who can set priorities, make high quality judgements and decisions quickly and effectively drive outcomes through to completion 
• Up to date with employment law that impacts resourcing and recruitment life cycle
• Personable and well-presented
• Able to work under pressure with accuracy and focus
• Competent at using MS Office applications and Outlook, ideally with a solid grasp of excel
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Good attention to detail
• Experience of working within a confidential discipline
• Proactive and creative problem solver
• Solutions focussed and managing risks appropriately
• Collaborative team player and willing to help others as required
• Take the initiative and work independently whilst demonstrating the ability to build credible and professional working relationships when dealing with people at all levels of seniority
• Flexible and adaptable style
• Willingness to travel to other offices when required
• Demonstrates our firm’s values

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture.  From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another.  At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices.  BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences.  With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.