IFS - Recruitment Associate - Consulting

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 the firm. You'll focus on engaging the most qualified 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.

As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Proactively assist the team in various aspects of the project
- Prepare deliverables
- Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
- Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
- Ensure you are adhering to compliance matters
- Work on developing internal relationships and your PwC brand

The Recruitment Coordinator works closely with the Regional Recruitment Team and candidates on recruiting and on-boarding efforts for the Middle East Region.  The role requires a "client service mentality" so that key stakeholders receive a quality in-house recruitment service with the objective of providing a distinctive candidate experience.  It is essential to build and maintain positive working relationships with all stakeholders - the role requires constant, regular and consistent communication with the Human Capital Team across the Middle East region, and with candidates across the globe.  The Recruitment and On-boarding coordinator will be the first point of contact for new hires from the point that an offer is accepted through the new hire's first day at PwC.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Successfully transitioning a new hire from the offer management stage to their date of joining, whilst managing their on-boarding process with the on-boarding team in their country of employment.
- Managing offer management process (preparing contracts, communicate on-boarding process to the new joiner, and manage their on-boarding process up to date of joining and transitioning phase).
- Maintaining records of all job offers, employment, and on-boarding documentation.
- Manage and keep reports up to date for all Consulting new hires.
- Address all new joiner queries regarding their on-boarding.
- Initiating shipping / relocation services for expat hires.
- Schedule interviews upon recruiter's request.
- Conducting HR interviews for candidates.
- Manage the online testing of applicants.
- Keep the business informed of a new hire on-boarding logistics and date of joining.
- Provides support to source candidates from multiple sources, liaising with PwC Recruitment teams in other locations to share information and minimize duplication of effort.
- Updates and maintains candidate information and career opportunities on PwC Careers website.
- Works on specific projects related to HR initiatives as assigned.

Requirements

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or other related field.
- Minimum of 2/3 years relevant experience in Human Resources and/or Recruitment.
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), strong attention to detail.
- Strong team player, enthusiastic, self-motivated, hard working and proactive.
- Ability to work and deliver under pressure and within tight deadlines; ability to multitask and prioritise tasks.
- Fluent in English (Verbal & Written).
- Strong IT and Microsoft office skills especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ideally have worked on Google products such as Sheets, Slides, Google Drive.
- Exposure to Workday would be advantageous.   
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information in a professional manner.
- Empathetic with ability to build rapport with candidates and upcoming new hires.
- Ideally you will  have worked internationally or spent time abroad.

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.