Accounting Finance Recruitment Consultant
Job Summary
As a Consultant/Senior Consultant in Accounting & Finance, you will manage 360-degree recruitment processes, focusing on business development and client acquisition. You will be responsible for building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to provide high-quality placement services. The role requires a strategic mindset, proven sales success, and the ability to mentor team members in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Execute end-to-end 360 recruitment processes
- Drive business development and client acquisition
- Manage and maintain client and candidate relationships
- Mentor and guide junior recruitment team members
Required Skills
- 3+ years agency recruitment experience
- Accounting & Finance market expertise
- Strong business development and sales capability
- Strategic problem-solving and negotiation skills
Job Details
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible in new client acquisition from leads generation to negotiating terms to secure exclusive relationships and retain existing business in order to continuously develop your business area.
- Handle a range of clients and take responsibility for key relationships, ensuring we deliver on all client expectations and our SLAs.
- Manage the recruitment process from beginning to end, including the development and delivery of short and long-term recruitment campaigns.
- Source, select and match high quality candidates, ensuring only the best are put forward to our clients for interview.
- Provide guidance to other team members on all aspects of recruitment, mentoring less experienced colleagues.
- Support your manager in identifying team and individual areas for development, deputising for them in their absence.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of prior 360 recruitment experience in recruitment agency environment.
- Demonstrated experience in business development and onboarding new client accounts within Accounting & Finance function desk.
- Demonstrated experience in sourcing and placing mid to senior level candidates within Accounting & Finance desk.
- Stable tenure within previous recruitment roles, with evidence of progression within previous companies.
- Documented history of success within business development, evidenced by consistency in achieving and exceeding individual placement targets as a full-cycle recruitment consultant.
- Proven ability to confidently and effectively communicate, present to, and build rapport with senior-level executives and decision-makers.
- Maintains the highest standards of professionalism, ethics, and integrity in all client interactions.
- The passion to be in a sales and client management environment, and the drive to make things happen and hit targets, even under pressure.
- Strong negotiation skills and a highly strategic, commercial/ entrepreneurial mindset.
- Strong problem-solving and lateral-thinking skills – you deliver innovative solutions.