In House Recruitment Advisor

AAT is the UK's leading qualification and professional membership body for vocational accountants.We pride ourselves on providing practical qualifications that meet the needs of both employers and employees.

Term: 6 months FTC (with the potential to be permanent)

Location: We have hybrid working in place, with 1-2 daysper week, in our office in Canary Wharf

What exactly will you be doing?

You’ll be supporting AAT by developing and implementing successful attraction and selection plans for vacancies: filling vacancies with diverse, high calibre, motivated people in a timely fashion.

Major objectives

• Work closely with managers to develop effective recruitment campaigns and manage these
• Research avenues to source applicants for hard to fill roles, using data analysis where available
• Identify and utilise opportunities to increase diversity
• Promote opportunities to support internal promotions
• Work in collaboration with the People Analytics, Payroll and Systems Lead to manage the Applicant Tracking System and ensure it is utilised to its full capacity
• Manage relationships with agencies and negotiate cost effective rates and terms
• Work with managers to design best practice and effective selection processes
• Support managers with selection process, reviewing interview questions and developing selection methods as appropriate for the role and in line with AAT behaviours
• Support managers with application sifting and sit on selection panels as required
• Ensure AAT's employer brand remains positive and visible
• Suggest process improvements to ensure these are efficient and effective

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with experience in recruitment, who is confident designing appropriate attraction and selection campaigns for roles. You will be passionate about diversity and inclusion and ensuring we fill our vacancies with the best people. Attention to detail and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders are essential skills. Applications from those with wider HR experience as well as in a Recruitment capacity are also welcome.

What are the benefits?

At AAT we believe in treating our staff well and this is reflected in our wide-ranging benefits, which include:

• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our London office) and opportunities for further flexible working
• 25 days’ annual leave, increasing one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time employees)
• Great pension scheme, life assurance, and critical illness cover
• Health cash plan
• Regular wellbeing initiatives
• Cycle2Work scheme and much more

Closing Date:

The planned closing date for this role is 16 September 2026; however, we reserve the right to close the role earlier than planned.

It’s an exciting time to join AAT and we would love you to join us on our journey.

We are committed to being an inclusive and welcoming place to work. We encourage applications from diverse candidates and make recruitment decisions based on skill and experience. We have a diversity and inclusivity (D&I) champions group, which leads on our D&I strategy and organise events to celebrate and raise awareness. We are a disability-confident committed employer and have signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We have also signed up for the Women in Finance Charter, and in 2020 we exceeded our target for appointing females into senior positions.

Come and help us to make AAT an even better place to work!

Interested?