Talent Associate

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

Department: People Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Edinburgh

Compensation: £24,000 - £30,000 / year

Description

Our People Operations Team

The People Operations team supports and enables everyone in FreeAgent to focus on doing their best work, through the delivery of exceptional service across our 3 sub-teams: the People team, Talent team and Front Office team.

The role

As a Talent Associate within the Talent Team you'll play a pivotal role in attracting talent to FreeAgent. A key focus will be to reinforce our recruitment marketing activities while providing general administrative support within the team across a wide range of recruitment and people focussed projects.

Developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders will be crucial to your success, and you will be naturally driven to provide exceptional service to managers and a smooth candidate experience throughout the hiring process.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to develop their career within an internal Talent team, with an opportunity to support on projects across the wider People Operations remit.

Day to day here's what you can expect:

• Proactively engage with our candidate market using online sourcing tools, networks of contacts, partnerships, and agency partners
• Source candidates for all types of roles across the business and build up our talent pool of suitable candidates that have shown interest in future opportunities
• Update our employee referral tool and promote opportunities for employees to utilise their networks
• Support our online advertising through job advert posting on a number of job boards and platforms
• Assist with the planning and hosting of both virtual and in-person recruitment events
• Communication with candidates within our applicant tracking system to ensure we deliver a high touch and supportive candidate experience
• Support the administration of selection tests and interview arrangements
• Administrative support of our team mailboxes, monthly reporting, and process documentation
  
  
  

You 🙌

Ideally you'll have:

• A proven interest in recruitment with some experience in a resourcing role or similar
• Excellent communication skills, balancing genuine empathy with a sense of urgency
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to adapt your style and approach
• Solid administration skills supported by good planning and personal organisation
  
  
  

Our work life 👩🏽‍💻

We believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.

At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!

Work pattern for this role

This is a permanent full time role (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)

This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, however there will be an opportunity to adopt hybrid working, under an agreed pattern of 2 days from the office and 3 days at home each week. Working from home is second nature to us as we have been championing remote working for 17 years.

Perks 🎁

Annual starting salary of £24,000 - £30,000 per annum depending on experience, with room to progress to £32,000 within the band.

Our starting salaries typically leave some opportunity for growth within the band as salaries are linked to performance expectations to nurture our culture of fairness, learning and development.

We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, with benefits and perks including (but not limited to!) the following:

• 33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you're with us)
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Private health care
• Life assurance
• 5% matched pension contributions
• Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)
• Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
• Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellness webinars
• Focused learning time and learning budgets
• Volunteering day
  
  
  

Find out more about our benefits package here!

About FreeAgent

FreeAgent aims to remove the stress and pain of dealing with business finances. From the very beginning in 2007, our aim was to create a product that would make an impact and improve the lives of micro-businesses in the UK. Now FreeAgent is one of the UK's most popular online accounting software providers, with over 200,000 customers.

Not to blow our own horn … but in 2024 we won the UK Customer Experience silver award for 'Customers at the Heart of Everything'. ICB LUCA Awards also named FreeAgent the 'Friendliest Software of the Year' in 2024 for the fifth time (following wins in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023). The list could go on!

From hiring our very first employee back in 2008, we’ve grown to over 250 employees who all share the same vision and values. Find out more about what it's like to work here on our Life at FreeAgent blog. If you still have questions, email talent@freeagent.com

FreeAgent is an equal opportunities employer, and we invest in our people and culture to ensure we have a happy, diverse and high-performing team. We strongly encourage applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, family or parental status.

We hope the detail in our job advertisements is informative but not limiting. Research shows, and we’ve observed, that underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role without meeting all of the criteria listed. If this feels relatable we’d encourage you to apply, even if you think there may be areas for development.