Talent Acquisition Manager

Join Unity Advisory as a Talent Acquisition Manager in London, where you'll lead recruitment across senior levels in a dynamic professional environment.

• Design and run proactive sourcing strategies across LinkedIn, networking, and direct outreach
• Develop structured talent maps for priority roles and maintain warm pipelines of high-calibre candidates
• Use data and tooling — including AI-enabled sourcing tools — to enrich candidate intelligence and reduce time-to-shortlist
• Actively support Partner and Director searches: owning sourcing, candidate engagement, and process coordination
• Manage end-to-end recruitment from Senior Associate to Director level, ensuring a consistent, high-quality candidate experience
• Brief hiring managers and Partners effectively — hold timelines, feedback loops, and decisions with discipline
• Continuously improve role briefs, interview frameworks, and assessment approaches
• Manage and optimise the ATS and supporting hiring infrastructure as the firm scales
• Track meaningful hiring metrics: time to hire, pipeline conversion, source quality, offer acceptance
• Develop playbooks and templates that make the process more repeatable and scalable
• Represent Unity credibly in the market at every candidate touchpoint
• Support employer brand initiatives including content, events, and referral programmes
• Act as an ambassador for Unity's culture and Ownership Model

• 5–8 years of talent acquisition experience, either in-house within professional services (Big Four, mid-tier, or boutique advisory) or as a specialist agency recruiter placing into finance/professional services
• Deep knowledge of at least one of: Deals and Financial Due Diligence (FDD), Office of the CFO / Finance Transformation, or Tax
• Proven track record of sourcing and securing strong hires at Manager to Director level in high-calibre environments
• Comfortable engaging Partner and Director-level candidates directly
• Experience improving hiring processes in a scaling environment
• Consultative and intelligent in your approach to hiring — you think about fit, not just profile
• Strong relationship builder across candidates, hiring managers, and senior Partners
• Clear and direct communicator, written and verbal
• Commercially aware: you understand why hiring decisions matter to a PE-backed business
• Comfortable with data — used to improve, not just report
• Genuinely collaborative — comfortable sharing workload and building something jointly
• High ownership: you see a gap and close it, without being asked twice
• Low ego: you share credit freely and focus on what is right for the firm
• Honest and direct: candid feedback to candidates and hiring managers alike
• Curious about talent practice — not just filling roles, but building something

• A close, collaborative TA team — shared ownership of both staff and senior hiring from day one
• Direct access to the CEO, Chair, and Partners
• Genuine scope to shape how talent acquisition works at a scaling PE-backed firm
• A culture that is high-standards without being political, and ambitious without being transactional
• The opportunity to work alongside exceptional people who take their craft seriously