L4 Talent Acquisition Service Line Portfolio Lead (Tax) - Perm
Added 12 Sept · still live
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Salary
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£52,900
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 1136 (80% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £52,900, and EY is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 3571 (Human resources and industrial relations officers, Talent acquisition specialist/consultant focus if role is more advisory than managerial) or SOC 2440 (Business and financial project management professionals, Portfolio lead title suggests project/portfolio management focus). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
About the role
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Talent Acquisition Service Line Portfolio Lead, Tax and Law
Level 4: Associate Director
Location: UK Wide
Hybrid working: Currently a minimum of 1 day per week in the office
This role requires strategic thinking, and the ability to partner and influence decision makers within a service line. The successful candidate will ensure our service line experienced hires and early careers recruiters are maximizing our core and regional technology, digital tools, and processes in alignment with the regional vision and strategy. The Talent Acquisition function has been through a large transformation globally over the last year to adapt and enhance how we attract and select candidates in a highly competitive landscape. This role will ensure that the Service Line Experience Hires and Early Careers recruitment teams adopt a best-in-class service and maximizing all available tools to achieve this.
As the Service Line Portfolio Lead, UKI, you will drive delivery & execution across experienced hires and early careers within the Service Line and our big bet expansion areas. This role will deliver a seamless recruiting process and exceptional experience for our candidates, recruiters, and business stakeholders in the Service Line. You will report to the Head of Portfolios & Business Partnership UKI and work as part of the extended UK TA2 Leadership team, driving and executing on end-to-end hiring across experienced hires and early careers.
This role will require a high level of collaboration with key stakeholders and peers. It is essential that this role instils a level of consistency in approach and methodology with best practice methods being always utilised in line with EY’s regional and global standards.
Job Duties
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Join EY and help to build a better working world.
Talent Acquisition Service Line Portfolio Lead, Tax and Law
Level 4: Associate Director
Location: UK Wide
Hybrid working: Currently a minimum of 1 day per week in the office
This role requires strategic thinking, and the ability to partner and influence decision makers within a service line. The successful candidate will ensure our service line experienced hires and early careers recruiters are maximizing our core and regional technology, digital tools, and processes in alignment with the regional vision and strategy. The Talent Acquisition function has been through a large transformation globally over the last year to adapt and enhance how we attract and select candidates in a highly competitive landscape. This role will ensure that the Service Line Experience Hires and Early Careers recruitment teams adopt a best-in-class service and maximizing all available tools to achieve this.
As the Service Line Portfolio Lead, UKI, you will drive delivery & execution across experienced hires and early careers within the Service Line and our big bet expansion areas. This role will deliver a seamless recruiting process and exceptional experience for our candidates, recruiters, and business stakeholders in the Service Line. You will report to the Head of Portfolios & Business Partnership UKI and work as part of the extended UK TA2 Leadership team, driving and executing on end-to-end hiring across experienced hires and early careers.
This role will require a high level of collaboration with key stakeholders and peers. It is essential that this role instils a level of consistency in approach and methodology with best practice methods being always utilised in line with EY’s regional and global standards.
Job Duties
People Management
Service Line TA2 Managers across Experienced Hires and Early Careers will report into this role. Each role type will have a team of recruiters that deliver a best-in-class service to our clients that report into their respective Service Line TA2 Managers.
Service Line TA2 Managers across Experienced Hires and Early Careers will report into this role. Each role type will have a team of recruiters that deliver a best-in-class service to our clients that report into their respective Service Line TA2 Managers.
- Develop a collaborative team within the Service Line TA2 team that can pivot through peaks and troughs through the financial year.
- Work with the Head of TA2 Portfolios to achieve a clear succession plans at all levels and offer a transparent career pathway for our recruitment teams in alignment with our career agility strategy.
- Upskill teams to help recruiters perform now and prepare for a future driven by AI and automation.
- Become the single point of contact for our Service Line Leadership teams and Strategic Talent Leads to ensure there is a clear understanding and alignment of all TA2 activities that relate to the end-to-end delivery of our experienced and early career hiring.
- Develop our service line recruiters to become true business partners at all levels,
- Being part of a Portfolio Lead team ensuring a consistent way of approaching successes, challenges, opportunities and threats across all experience hires and early careers recruitment delivery.
- Working collaboratively with our strategic and specialist services such as talent intelligence, candidate experience to deliver a proactive and value add service to our Service Lines.
- Partner closely where applicable with our Head of Contingent Workers to maximise the Build, Buy, Borrow strategy across the service line and champion our contingent worker model to give agility to our client server teams.
- Ensuring our offshore IBM, Talent Shared Services and Global Talent Attraction teams are delivering to the standards and SLA’s required to maintain an excellent experience for our service line hiring teams, candidate and recruiters along the whole recruitment lifecycle.
- An understanding of the drivers required to measure demand in order to deliver our financial targets is required.
- Working with our head of TA2 Portfolios and coordinate with our Strategic Talent Leads, Service Line Operations Directors and Financial Planning & Analysis team to plan each financial year from an FTE perspective and measure/review this throughout.
- Provide practical solutions to deliver the workforce demand through each financial year across early careers and experienced hires.
- Provide Service Line Leadership regular update of progress against plan, using objective workforce planning data. This is to be done in a consistent manner in collaboration with all Service Line Portfolio Leads.
- Accountable for the delivery and execution of our workforce plans across experienced hires and early careers, ensuring a world class approach to candidate and hiring manager experience.
- Working with TA2 Operations, validate and review existing reports, gather feedback, and prioritise iterative improvements. You will use key data to provide insights and storyboard reporting to our service line leadership teams that drives continuous improvement and collaboration.
- Control and measure agency spend across the region and provide this data and insights to operational leadership to put measures in place where needed.
- Use all available sources such as business referrals, advertising, direct sourcing, internal hiring and agency usage as part of our overall sourcing strategy to deliver against our workforce plans.
Qualifications and Experience
As this is a demanding role in a fast-paced and complex service line/environment, we are looking for someone who can quickly build trusted stakeholder relationships, establish credibility and step confidently into the role from day one.
As such, consideration will be given to candidates who can demonstrate:
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.
- A proven track record of leading specialist recruitment delivery within a complex recruitment environment.
- Experience operating at Senior Manager level, or equivalent leadership experience.
- Ability to effectively balance a TAA leadership role with commerciality and pragmatism
- Demonstrated experience as a Talent Acquisition Lead in a professional services or multinational organisation, with a strong focus on people management, delivery and business partnerships.
- Commercially astute, with the confidence to influence at all levels of an organisation and the humility to listen, learn, and adapt.
- Committed to ensuring data accuracy and implementing measures for regional TA teams to maintain real-time and accurate data.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with MI tools such as Power BI
- Passionate about refining and validating data, prioritizing key insights, and presenting them compellingly.
- Advocate for ED&I within the organisation and to external audiences, ensuring comprehensive market representation in Early Careers programs and experience hiring.
- Hands-on leader with a problem-solving and solutions-oriented approach.
- Capable of navigating ambiguity, exercising sound judgment under pressure, and engaging and influencing internal stakeholders and the external market confidently.
- Ethical and compliant, always acting in the best interests of the business and leading by example.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Resilient and adaptable to change.
- Strong organisational and time-management abilities.
- Commitment to professional development and staying current with industry trends.
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
The Exceptional EY Experience. It’s Yours To Build.
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About EY
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.
Please note
Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!
EY | Building a better working world
- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
The Exceptional EY Experience. It’s Yours To Build.
Apply now.
About EY
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.
Please note
Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!
EY | Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
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Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 1136 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~170k in sampleP25 £45kP75 £77k
£33kmedian £59kgoing rate £53k£99k
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