Senior Recruitment Associate

About the Role:

The Senior Recruitment Associate is a key member of the full-time Recruitment Search team working closely with Engagement Managers on finance and accounting talent recruitment mandates.

This role is pivotal in finding and engaging top passive and active talent through proactive outreach, leveraging multiple strategies. Once engaged, the Senior Recruitment Associate will develop a market map and engagement strategy to find, attract, and evaluate talent. The Senior Recruitment Associate will conduct candidate interviews (screening/technical interviews), assess qualifications and interest, build candidate profiles, and play an integral role in shortlisting and presenting candidates to clients.

What You’ll Do:

• Apply exceptional relationship-building skills to proactively develop a top-tier candidate “kiosk” (bench of talent) through high levels of outreach, sourcing, referrals, candidate screening/technical interviews, follow-ups, and networking to nurture relationships with the best talent
• Work closely with the Engagement Managers and clients to understand the client’s hiring needs, including company culture, values, and specific requirements for the role
• Provide insights to clients based on your in-depth understanding of competency and market trends for senior finance candidates in high-growth companies
• Leverage your in-depth understanding of hard and soft-skill requirements for senior roles to assess the alignment of candidates’ technical skills, fit, and experience against the job requirements
• Utilize various data sources and systems to source, cultivate, consolidate, and nurture a highly qualified candidate pool
• Develop and execute customized search strategies for each role, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and assessing senior finance candidates
• Maintain accurate and detailed records of candidate interactions and other recruitment related information
• You will gain client-facing business partnering experience through supporting job intakes, calibration meetings, and shortlist presentations and advising clients on talent market trends
• Always act with your candidates’ best interest in mind and be a partner to them throughout their career journey, using your empathetic people skills along with the data, tools, and insights Clarity provides
• Promote Clarity’s brand, value proposition, and service offerings when appropriate with candidates throughout the recruitment process. Today's candidates are tomorrow's clients if treated right and the relationship nurtured

What You’ll Need

• A minimum of an undergraduate degree, preferably in Business or Economics
• 3-5 years of experience within agency recruitment (360 or 180), ideally involving the placement of full-time roles in the Accounting and Finance sector OR 5+ years CPA background with some recruitment exposure.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with comfort writing and speaking to a senior-level audience
• A goal-achiever, you excel at time management to meet weekly metrics and submission deadlines
• Strong business acumen and understanding of senior-level roles and responsibilities, including market trends and competitive landscape
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• You always bring your A-game and positive attitude, motivation, persistence, and a competitive edge to complement a top-performing team
• Comfortable Working with presentation slides, docs, and spreadsheets (MS Office)
• Able to attend in-person staff meetings/events at our Oakville or Toronto (ON) office locations as needed or required.

3-MONTHS into your role:

• You will have a good handle on how to find, contact and screen potential candidates.
• You will strive to understand candidate aptitudes, motivators, behaviors and goals through comprehensive interviewing techniques
• You can show in-depth understanding of role requirements and an ability to find the right people through your extensive headhunting efforts.
• You will have a solid grasp of the Clarity brand and be able to explain to candidates why Clarity should be their recruitment partner of choice.
• You will begin to fully own shortlists submitted to clients, managing candidates throughout the deal cycle.

9-MONTHS into your role:

• You will have cultivated a robust and evolving candidate pipeline that includes candidates for current live roles and a pipeline for future roles.
• You can demonstrate expert knowledge of using different sourcing techniques including Boolean search, Xray, and various search architectures, etc.
• You have fostered trust and partnerships with your internal stakeholders (engagement managers, peers, and leadership)
• You can effectively identify and mitigate any candidate risk throughout the recruitment cycle.
• You begin to understand market trends and can adjust your pipeline activity in response to fluid market demands.
• You have expanded your foundational industry Accounting, Finance, and Data Analytics knowledge and are able to demonstrate expertise to candidates, clients, and peers.

Establish yourself as the Recruiter you want to be, 12-MONTHS into your role:

• You are self-motivated to succeed (or exceed). You hit your recruitment targets out of the park.
• You instinctively seek to find solutions to difficult searches, engaging various external sources to support you.
• You have established your brand and reputation as a credible recruiter who delivers on their promises and has built strong relationships with their candidates.
• You are a champion for change, participating in or leading internal innovations to make a great recruitment team, even better.
• You have honed and cultivated your influencing skills, negotiation, and counteroffer acumen. Candidate control comes easy.

Why Join Us?

• MAKE AN IMPACT: We encourage taking risks, running experiments and challenging the way things are done. You will be a direct contributor to the company’s success and will elevate the hiring and recruitment experience for our clients and candidates.
• STAND OUT: You are not just a number in a vast organization, you’ll be a direct contributor to the company’s success and your voice will be heard.
• COMPENSATION TIED TO PERFORMANCE: We offer a competitive base salary plus commission eligible from day 1 with no cap on earning potential.
• COLLABORATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE: You’ll be set up to succeed with the Search Recruitment team collaborating with client-facing Engagement Managers who develop/support you.
• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: We invest in training with a regular learning series and our leaders have a mandate to support your personal and professional development. You’ll have access to the leadership team, professional development benefits, and frequent 1:1 time with your manager, as well as other company leaders.
• BENEFITS/PERSONAL TIME OFF: We provide a competitive compensation package with company-paid benefits, generous paid time off, closures during winter break, and a $500 wellness credit. We also encourage you to use your time off.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING ARRANGEMENTS: We’ll provide you with $1000 work-from-home credit to help you set up.
• PERKS: We have a fun, team-oriented culture (even in this physically distant world) and regularly hold digital or in-person staff events to celebrate important achievements and cultural holidays.

Recognize Yourself Here? Let’s Talk.

If you feel you’d be a great fit but don’t meet all the requirements listed, we still encourage you to apply. Thank you for considering Clarity

We do appreciate all interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Clarity Recruitment is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate all applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnic background, ancestry, religion, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, age, family/marital status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Moreover, our hiring process ensures that every qualified candidate is given fair consideration, and decisions are based on merit.

Clarity Recruitment welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.