IFS - HC - Recruitment Associate (Assurance)

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Internal Firm Services

Specialism
IFS - Human Capital (HC)

Management Level
Associate

Job Description & Summary
A career in Human Resources, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference at PwC by helping to fully leverage the skills and talents of all our people. You'll focus on helping the local offices in driving the Firm's people strategy, creating a unique people experience for each individual, and supporting our Firm wide values by working with the core competencies that measure and drive individual and Firm wide success in the marketplace.

It takes talented people to support the largest professional services organisation in the world. Our Recruiting team works to identify and attract talent for PwC. You'll focus on engaging the most qualified experienced candidates by building relationships with job seekers and candidates, while understanding the dynamic hiring needs of each business. Our team actively recruits for full time employees at all levels, from experienced to executive, as well as fixed term, contingent, and flexible talent and supports the internal movement process between roles.

The Assurance Recruitment Associate is responsible for supporting the recruitment of experienced hires across a range of teams within the Assurance line of service. They will provide a quality in-house recruitment service to stakeholders and a quality candidate experience and ensure that our employer branding is positively promoted at all times.

Primary duties and responsibilities

Financial
• Reports recruitment information & statistics to key internal clients, for the purpose of tracking cost, time & source of hire and to keep them informed of progress on recruitment
• Ensures that cost efficient options are explored for interviewing candidates

Customer
• Finalise and create job descriptions/profiles with Partners and Directors
• Develop and promote the PwC people value proposition within recruitment
• Keep up to date with any changes in business needs and change in market conditions
• Support firmwide strategy to continuously increase diversity through improved recruitment practices across the region
• Build and maintain strong and sustainable business relationships and networks Internal Process Source experienced candidates from multiple sources, manage and maximise talent pipelines liaising with PwC Recruitment teams in other locations to share information and minimize duplication of effort
• Interview and test candidates using the standard competency based recruitment model and employing psychometric testing within selection
• Manage the end to end recruitment process in line with Global PwC standards and metrics
• Collects data for recruitment reporting needs in a timely manner

Learning and Growth
• Support improvements in the HC Operating model, specifically the increased delivery of standardised services.
• Looks for areas of continuous improvement across the Recruitment & Global Mobility function
• Identifying external trends in D&I, integrating into a recruitment strategy and recognising best practice which will increase diversity among the workforce
• Promote collaboration, trust and improvement between team members and across the People Team
• Work on specific projects related to HR initiatives as assigned

Requirements

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

Education
• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Psychology or Business Management is an advantage
• Professional Human Resources certification or Recruitment qualifications is an advantage (i.e CIPD, Level A/B Psychometric Testing)

Language
• Fluency in spoken and written English is mandator, proficiency in Arabic is an advantage

Overall Experience
• 2+ years of recruitment experience
• Professional Services and/or Big 4 expertise and knowledge is ideal
• Experience as a 360 recruiter is essential
• Experience and proficiency in recruitment technology is essential

Knowledge and Skills
• Experience and expertise of selection techniques including competency based interviewing and designing and running assessment centres is essential
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong customer service orientation with ability to use patience and diplomacy to handle issues

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.