About Moore Kingston Smith

We are a dynamic, leading UK firm of auditors, accountants and business advisers. We have been helping clients thrive since 1923.

As trusted advisers to businesses, private individuals and not for profit organisations, we are passionate about helping our clients achieve their ambitions. We are committed to supporting them through good and bad times. Our highly experienced people have the strategic insight, drive and dedication to deliver results.

With over 65 partners and more than 550 staff based in and around London, we are a leading member of the Moore Global Network, an international family made up of over 30,000 people across more than 100 countries, members connect and collaborate to take care of our clients’ needs – at a local, national and international level.

With the success of our clients at the centre of everything we do, our people are hugely important to us. We recognise that they are key to our continued growth and development as a firm. Our commitment to developing our people and providing an environment in which they can thrive is therefore paramount to us.

This is evidenced by the many awards we have won, recognising both our people and employer excellence, and our creative innovation, particularly in regard to client services – among other things.

Purpose of the Role

We are seeking an Early Talent Advisor to work within our busy People Team. This is a new role created to support the attraction, development and retention of our Early Talent. The role is a hybrid role focussing primarily on recruitment and learning and development disciplines. You will work closely with the Early Talent Manager, Senior Early Talent Administrator and the broader People team to help deliver a strategic and professional proposition, attracting and recruiting high calibre individuals into the firm and supporting with their learning and development journey.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Operations

• Support the recruitment process for all those on early talent pathways (predominantly ACA and AAT)

• Support with the design and oversee structured internship programme

• Support with the design and oversee industrial placements

• Organise and attend Early Talent attraction events

• Support Early Talent Manager with salary review and promotion process for Early Talent population

• Support Early Talent candidates throughout contract with development and pastoral support

• Oversee the preparation and issue of appropriate contractual documentation in relation to appointments, terminations and variations of employment.

Learning & Development (L&D)

• Prepare and facilitate Early Talent Induction activities

• Prepare and facilitate professional skills training for Early Talent population including sessions on delegation and working with clients

• Build a strong relationship with the ICAEW to ensure we are ahead on trends

• Work with the Senior ET Administrator, Kaplan and the ICAEW to influence decisions around the study routes and exams (where possible)

• Broaden the tailored trainee development opportunities to include more professional skills options such as mentoring and coaching

• Help to streamline the local trainee training offerings and ensure more consistency across the offices (knowledge management/knowledge sharing)

• Utilise the Moore network to identify secondment opportunities to help with development and retention of trainees

Miscellaneous

• Manage adhoc Early Talent project work

• Support with workforce planning

• Report and track apprenticeship spend via digital apprenticeship service

• Support with the collation of strategic MI

• Keep up-to-date with L&D and recruitment trends and developments

• Knowledge share with other members of the internal L&D and recruitment community and wider People team

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in L&D and/or Early Talent recruitment

• Strong presentation and facilitation skills

• Strong excel skills

• Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities

• Ability to build rapport with internal/external contacts at of all levels of hierarchy

• Takes ownership of their workload and development

Desirable

• Experience of working in a Partnership Firm

• CIPD accreditation

Moore Kingston Smith is an Inclusive Employer

We are passionate about inclusion and we seek to attract talented individuals from a wide and diverse talent pool. Our business is made stronger by the different perspectives and experiences of our people and we feel it is important and in line with our values that we continue to build a workforce which is representative of our society as it is today.

We are proud of the great strides we have made in recent years to build a more agile workforce, move our gender pay gap to an almost neutral score and our Inclusion Committee, yet we recognise there will always be ways in which we can grow and learn as an organisation. We welcome applications from those who can help us on our journey and who wish to bring their authentic selves to work each day and help us build a sustainable and inclusive workplace of the future.