Make your career count

At Price Bailey, we provide exciting opportunities for training, personal growth and career engagement. We believe in fostering happiness and fulfilment in your work, whilst supporting and inspiring you to grow. We understand that your life extends beyond the workplace, which is why our Smart Working culture promotes flexibility, allowing you to choose when and where you work, whilst still providing excellent client care.

A well-established firm of chartered accountants and business advisors, we offer a wide range of services, including auditing, accounting, tax and corporate finance. We proudly serve a diverse client base across the UK and internationally, with a strong focus on entrepreneurial owner-managed businesses that share our passion for innovation.

What do the team do?

Our HR function supports the leadership teams around the business by providing them with high quality expertise on all people related matters. The team is comprised of 13 people to manage resourcing, operations, internal training, wellbeing and reward, and is led by a partner and director.

Our dedicated Resourcing team is comprised of three people, who are responsible for recruiting talent across all grades at Price Bailey, from trainee to partner level. With the firm's ambitious growth plans, we hire a significant number of accountancy trainees each year to support its continued success.

With our Early Careers Advisor due to go on maternity leave, we're looking for someone in her absence to primarily oversee the attraction and recruitment of school leavers and graduates, as well as managing our work experience programmes. You will also have the opportunity to support with Experienced Hire recruitment and wider HR projects too. This is a 9 month fixed term contract, with the potential for it to be extended in the future.

What will I be doing?

As an Early Careers Advisor you will have ownership of the following tasks:

• Lead the end-to-end recruitment of school leavers, graduates, and placement students, ensuring a smooth and engaging candidate experience.
• Collaborate with Marketing to design and launch targeted early careers campaigns that attract top talent.
• Build strong partnerships with schools, academies, and universities to promote Price Bailey as an employer of choice.
• Coordinate and attend careers fairs alongside colleagues, using our current trainees as ambassadors to inspire future applicants.
• Own the selection process, from scheduling assessment centres to refining recruitment materials and ensuring robust, inclusive hiring practices.
• Work closely with internal teams, such as Professional Studies to ensure seamless onboarding and a diverse, well-supported trainee intake.
• Support wider HR team with recruitment of Experienced Hire vacancies during trainee recruitment off-season, as well as any ad hoc HR project work.

What experience do I need?

Whilst having the following experience is advantageous, we value passion and potential. If you meet the minimum criteria listed below and are eager to develop yourself, we would love to hear from you:

• Previous recruitment experience in either an inhouse team or a recruitment agency (minimum criteria)
• Proven ability to manage multiple vacancies simultaneously and/or high volume recruitment campaigns (minimum criteria)
• Experience of trainee recruitment in a professional services firm would be advantageous
• An assured and effective communicator with strong stakeholder management experience
• Ability to work at pace and manage multiple priorities at any one time
• Excellent attention to detail

What's on offer?

In addition to your salary, we also offer the following benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday) 
• Contributory pension scheme
• 4x life assurance
• All employee share scheme
• Family friendly policies e.g. paid time off for dependants 
• 2 days paid for volunteering
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including shopping discount

Price Bailey aspires to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their social background, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We are an equal opportunities employer and place inclusion at the heart of what we do. Our workplace is one where diversity is embraced and where everyone is empowered to be their authentic selves.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know in the appropriate section of your application. For candidates with a disability who meet the minimum criteria of the role, we also offer a guaranteed interview, which you can opt into as part of your application.

A polite note to recruitment agencies

Price Bailey will only accept CV's from recruitment agencies who have been briefed on specific roles by our Resourcing team and where contractual agreement exists already. We do not accept speculative CV's and agency fees will not be owed in these instances. Should you wish to be considered for our approved supplier list please contact recruitment@pricebailey.co.uk