Early Careers Lead

We are looking for a driven Early Careers Recruitment Lead to join our established and forward-thinking People Team. We’re going through an exciting period of transformation here at Bishop Fleming as we’re looking to significantly grow the firm, supported by the implementation of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, Workday, which will streamline the way we work and provide a better experience for both candidates and hiring managers alike. This is a wide-ranging role working in a recruitment team of 3 that is influential and instrumental in supporting the firm to hire great talent across a range of our apprenticeship, graduate, placement and experienced hires positions.

Year on year we recruit record numbers of apprentices and we’ve received recognition in the form of awards that support the success of our apprenticeship program. We are keen to continue attracting great talent to support our ambitious growth plans in Early Careers and this position will be integral in delivering against our plans. This role will be based in newly refurbished offices in central Bristol, the role will require some travel to our offices.  

The Role  

In this role, you will focus on hiring the best talent in the market into our apprenticeship program by leading Early Careers recruitment across all of our offices. Working closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager you will look at how we attract, select, and recruit in the market by utilising the best tools and techniques to ensure the firm is recruiting the right people to support us on our growth journey. This is a great opportunity to put your stamp on the role at a time that we’re going through a significant period of transformation.

Adopting a flexible approach to work, you will thrive in a fast-paced role and will be motivated to ensure that our People team continues to offer a great level of service to our people and candidates. You will also work with the Talent Acquisition Manager to hire Experienced Hires across the firm.

Day to day responsibilities will include: 

• Leading the end-to-end recruitment of graduate, apprentice and placement trainees, reviewing CVs, test results, video interviews and shortlisting all suitable trainee applicants for assessment centres this includes:
• Organising and facilitating assessment centres with the support of the Resourcing Administrator, including running feedback sessions and wash-ups
• Organising and attending various graduate and school career fairs and events, building good relationships with schools and universities
• Coordinating business representatives to support in the attendance of school and university events
• Overseeing the trainee onboarding process and induction process working with the L&D Leads, keeping incoming trainees engaged with the business ahead of their start dates and ensuring a successful introduction into the firm
• Providing regular updates and reporting on the progress of trainee resourcing to hiring managers, the Talent Acquisition Manager, and other key stakeholders, providing supporting management information (MI)
• Working closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager to ensure we have the right attraction and selection methods in place to ensure we recruit the best possible talent in the market
• Researching and working with the wider team to implement innovative ways to engage with our target audiences
• Fully engaging with Workday and ensuring we’re optimising this leading technology to keep pace with market changes
• Supporting key lateral hires working with the wider recruitment team
• Supporting the wider People Team

What we are looking for 

To be considered for the role, you will have:   

• Experience of Early Careers/future talent/volume recruitment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills that enable you to offer an excellent client service to hiring managers & candidates
• Good IT skills and be particularly comfortable working with MS Word and Excel, having applicant tracking systems (ATS) experience particularly with Workday would be an advantage
• A ‘can do’ attitude with the aptitude to deal with a high volume of candidate applications and requests
• Excellent organisational skills with good attention to detail 
• You’ll also be driven to achieve and curious around process improvement

Why Bishop Fleming?!

Bishop Fleming is an independent leading provider of audit, accountancy, tax, and advisory services in the UK. With a turnover of £38.4m, the firm saw growth of 15.5% per cent over the last 12 months.

From owner-managed businesses, SMEs, and large businesses; to entrepreneurs and private individuals; Bishop Fleming has a wealth of knowledge and experience in areas such as internal and external audit, corporate and personal tax, corporate finance and deals and accounting services.

Bishop Fleming is currently ranked 33 in the Accountancy Age league table and is the number one provider of audit services multi-academy trusts in the academy sector. The firm was also ranked fifth in the inaugural UK Accountancy Age Mid-Tier Power Index.

With 8 offices spanning from the West Midlands to the South West, the firm has 43 partners and nearly 500 staff, and is a certified Great Place to Work®. Bishop Fleming is a member of Kreston Global, a global network of independent accounting firms in more than 100 countries.

We are a firm that thinks clients, people and communities. As a member of Business in the Community (BITC) we are focussed on improving our responsible business practices and collectively making positive impacts for the benefit of society.

If that’s not enough, we offer a fantastic range of benefits including: 

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus Christmas off! 
• Hybrid working 
• A contributory Pension scheme 
• Life assurance 
• Simply Health cashback plan including access to 24/7 online GP service and counselling services 
• Perkbox discounts and rewards platform with over 4,000 perks and discounts 
• Yulife employee wellbeing app 
• Social events with active social committees that plan internal and external events   
• Numerous opportunities for development 

You will be able to take full advantage of the hybrid working that we offer to all of our people. Whether you’re working from the office or from home or from, we support our people to achieve the right balance of flexibility in line with delivering excellent service. 

We welcome applicants who would like the flexibility in their working arrangements, including working from home or part time working, which may help to accommodate parent or carer responsibilities, further studies and activities outside of work.  

We are committed to welcoming new people into an inclusive working environment, where everyone is given equal opportunity to reach their full potential.  We support a culture where people are valued and treated fairly with respect and differences are understood and celebrated.  

The more varied our workforce, the broader the expertise within our business. The broader our expertise, the greater our chances of innovation and success. That's why we're committed to equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion at every level.