Recruitment Operations Assistant

Job description

Role: Recruitment Operations Assistant – Experienced Hire
Role Type: 6 Month - FTC
Location: Birmingham, UK
Team: Experienced Hire Recruitment Team – KBS
Grade: E

Travel: Some Travel required; e.g. Meetings in London offices.

The Team

The Experienced Hire (EH) Recruitment Team is a team of highly specialist recruiters recruiting diverse talent into KPMG. The Recruitment Operations team provides process, systems and project management support to the recruitment teams.

The Role

• Responsible for a variety of co-ordination and administrative tasks across KPMG’s end to end recruitment process, such as managing the EH general inbox and answering routine enquiries
• Supporting the Experienced Hire recruitment team with day to day activities and recruitment projects as required ensuring adherence to programme quality standards
• Provide PMO support to a variety of different projects, such as managing the collation of Risk and Issue logs, programme status reports, taking meeting minutes and ensuring prompt follow up on actions.
• Responsibility for the ongoing maintenance of both ATS and People systems
• Identification and execution of process improvement opportunities

The Person

• Proven ability in operations, customer service, people and project support/ PMO environments and be able to build on his/her experiences contributing to meeting the goals and objectives of the Experienced Hire Team and KPMG
• Previous experience in Recruiting Support or HR Operations in a large, matrixed, organisation.
• Knowledge and understanding of the full Recruiting lifecycle
• Experience in Applicant Tracking Systems and/or HR Software: experience of Success factors would be beneficial
• Strong project-based orientation; comfortable working to deadlines and maintaining responsibility for reports, etc
• Proactively contributing to initiatives and/or projects across the wider team as required, with strong organisation skills and high levels of attention to detail
• Proven ability to take initiative and continuously seek ways to improve existing processes.
• Adaptability and resilience to changing priorities and initiatives
• Proven analytical/decision making skills
• Effective prioritization and time management discipline
• Strong relationship development skills and communications skills, written and verbal
• Experience and ability to work with cross functional teams (finance, operations, legal, IT)