Job Title: Workforce Capability Analyst - Background Screening & Certification Specialist
Corporate Title: Associate
Division: Human Resources
Location: Birmingham

Overview:

In your role as a Workforce Capability Analyst you'll be responsible for performing the regional delivery of global Workforce Capability processes. You'll perform the day-to-day execution of elements of a global process, ensuring required inputs and outputs are produced in line with internal procedures and standards and acting as first line for advisory of the process. You'll raise potential improvements in the process and work collaboratively to support initiatives in the team.

You'll support and in some cases own relationships with relevant stakeholders including suppliers and customers as well as advising and supporting business stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage the team's day to day portfolio of background screening cases to meet agreed service level agreements (SLA's) and ensure due diligence is shown at all times
• Process screening cases, working within policy, process and guidelines
• Ensure issues are escalated as appropriate to management and business accordingly
• Co-ordinate and present escalation cases to the Hiring Adjudication Panel on a weekly basis
• Resolve issues with screening cases by effectively communicating with Managers, Recruiters and Candidates
• Ensure issues are dealt with efficiently with third parties in order to close background screening cases
• Ensure that all reporting requirements are met and delivered by agreed deadlines
• Identify, analyze and address areas for improvements and/or amendments
• Act as first point of contact for management escalation and special attention issues
• Providing oversight and annual certification of circa 3000 people in the UK
• Prove that our employees are fit and proper for their roles. Certifying all staff in positions of responsibility in line with New framework in Part 4 Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013, amending Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) Conduct Rules (replace existing statements of principle and code of practice)
• Responsible for maintaining and provision of all reference requirements, the on-going assessment of training against positions and the physically issue certificates
• Act as a process expert responsible for maintaining, advising and delivering end-to-end process effectiveness through the Certification Regime

Skills and Qualifications:

• The ability to communicate professionally and effectively at all levels
• The ability to work and use discretion when reviewing/holding confidential information
• The ability to work on your own initiative without supervision
• Excellent organization/prioritization skills
• The ability to work well under pressure
• The ability to anticipate needs, demonstrate initiative and be proactive
• Attention to detail and ability to multi task
• Educated to A level or above or equivalent work experience/qualifications

My client, a global FMCG business are looking for a Senior Finance ~Analyst to come on board on an 8 month contract.

Position Description:
The role will focus on the implementation of seven digit accounts in SAP to support transition of statutory accounting activities to the outsourced partner
Finalise outstanding historical balances in Balance Sheet reconciliations and transfer responsibility to relevant teams.
Finalise outstanding US Corporate queries, complete documentation of procedures as they relate to US GAAP and Statutory responsibilities which remain in country
ensure all entities are on SAP in separate company codes and support the move to separate HFM units for each Irish company code.

Skills Required: 3 KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:
1)Experienced in financial and statutory accounting
2)Good analytical and documentation skills
3)SAP Experience Skills Preferred: Experienced in US GAAP, local GAAP and SAP Good communicator (oral and written for documentation)
4) Statutory Accounting experience

Problem Solving Experience Required: Able to work as part of team receiving guidance from several team members experienced in different areas.
3 to 5 years experience in US GAAP and Statutory reporting SAP and excel expertise

Experience Preferred: SAP accounting project implementation experience Education Required: Qualified accountant with 3-5 years post qualification experience

Do your family and friends call you to help them with their computers?

Do you have a passion for technology?

If so, you are ideally suited to train for a Junior IT Contract worker. With our IT Contractor training package you will have the latest technology at your fingertips.

IT has become an increasingly more difficult industry to enter with professional level certifications now expected from candidates.

Salary expectations have therefore also risen with a newly qualified IT technician typically earning a salary between £18-25k rising to £35k+ with experience.

If you are looking to start a career working in IT, this carefully tailored IT Technician course bundle will teach you the skills and knowledge required to pursue a successful career. There is no need to find yourself trapped in a dead-end job when you can invest in your future with quality online training.

Through our partnership with a leading IT contracting company, once you complete the course and pass our internal examination you will be fast tracked onto a further 1 weeks focused training towards the specific role.

This role will pay an initial salary between £18k-£23k and you will be expected to be available for contracts within a 50 mile radius of your home.

The initial training is provided at a cost of just 6 interest free monthly payments of £99 with no credit check required. If required you may pay the cost up front or clear the balance earlier. Once you complete and pass our internal examination then a 1 weeks focused contract specific training is required in the IT contractors Head Office. Upon completion of this training successful applicants will then be offered a position to work for the IT contracting company.

The comprehensive IT package includes:-

• CompTIA Fundamentals - Teaches you to explain and identify basic computer components and set up a basic computer system as well as some basic networking and security skills. CompTIA Fundamentals provides a fantastic foundation to build on before completing CompTIA A+
• CompTIA A+ - Teaches you how to work in a professional IT environment and covers hardware, components, operating systems and how to troubleshoot and support users. It is the Internationally recognised standard for IT certifications and a gateway certification to almost every IT career.
• CompTIA Network+ (N+) Builds on the initial knowledge provided by CompTIA A+ for individuals working towards a Network Engineer role.
• Microsoft Windows Certifications - These teaches the skills and knowledge required to configure, manage and maintain Windows operating systems in a professional IT or multi platform environment.
• CCENT - The foundation to most Cisco certifications and essential for anyone looking to progress their IT career in a network support position.

What other assistance is provided ?

• To further assist you with your IT training needs, included in this study bundle is access to a CompTIA Live-lab which enables you to get real access to live systems in a multi-platform environment. This will give you valuable real world experience.
• You will have access to our Student Mentor to give guidance on any issues and career guidance you need.
• You will have access to our internal CompTIA Tutor Support who is on hand to provide guidance and answer any questions you may have regarding the courses. This service is provided 9-6pm Monday to Friday.
• Upon completion of the training and instalments you will receive access to a Free CV review to ensure your cv is written to a standard that IT recruiters need.

Once you have completed your studies and earned your certifications, you will be ready to take the next step towards your new IT career. Providing you achieve a score of 70% or more on our internal exam and have completed all your monthly instalments we will then fast-track your application through our IT Contracting connection.

Enquire today and one of our expert Course and Career Advisors will contact you within 48 hours to get you started on the path to your IT Support career.

An exciting role has arisen for a Deputy Night Manager with an industry leading distribution organisation in Birmingham.

Overall Responsibilities

Manage the resources available in order to achieve accurate packing, and accurate and timely delivery of the Newspaper and Magazine product, within the agreed budgets.

Key Results Area

Within agreed Key Performance Indicators, (KPI's):

• To maintain an efficient, cost effective transport service and to meet legal, operating and customer service requirements.
• Accurate receipt and input of information of newspapers received.
• Accurate packing of all newspaper and magazine product productively.
• Management of retailer claims to minimize waste.
• Operates within agreed location budgets.

Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Preparing for and attending all relevant senior management meetings at the Group House
• Preparing all relevant management information for publishers along with internal reports.
• Ensuring a professional hand-over takes place between each shift
• Setting goals for team members and self-using the My Goals system and ensuring these are achieved.
• To have a working PDP or DAP in place.
• Identifying potential in the team and ensures relevant development plans are in place in line with the Talent Management Strategy.
• Identifying poor performance and taking appropriate action.
• Training and coaching all employees within the team
• Planning the likely volumes and resource requirements for the week ahead.
• Auditing all processes regularly to ensure compliance.
• Liaising with publishers and third party distributors.
• Liaising with Customer Services to obtain feedback on service levels.
• Ensuring all standard operating practices are adhered to.
• Ensuring that Company health, safety and security standards are maintained.
• Performing health and safety risk assessments, and quarterly Audits
• Maintaining high standards of housekeeping at all times.
• Ensuring all staff are aware of their own performance and that of the location.
• Covering for other members of the Management Team within the Group when required to do so.
• Ensuring customer documentation is dispatched accurately
• Claims management

Essential

• Previous experience of managing or supervising a team
• Previous experience of training and developing team members
• Awareness of health and safety standards
• Experience of setting and achieving KPIs

Desirable

• Previous experience of working night shifts
• Previous experience of the newspaper and magazine distribution industry
• Experience in using the SAP system
• Previous warehouse experience

Six Sigma, Lean, Capacity planning, Efficiency, Wealth Management, Trade Lifecycle, Client Facing, SLA's, Banking

Team Manager, Financial Services - Birmingham

A well respected Financial Services company is looking for a team manager with a track record for ensuring team project delivery and an understanding of Wealth Management to join a fast-moving, thriving company in their Birmingham office. The successful team manager will be responsible for the day to day management of the team and must have a keen interest in learning the technical aspect of the role that the team will manage.

You will need:

• Experience managing a team in a Financial Services or Wealth Management company.
• An understanding of Lean Six Sigma training.
• The ability to maintain and distribute team workload in a pressured environment, ensuring SLA's are hit.
• Confident in a client facing environment with the ability to negotiate difficult conversations to a successful outcome.

This is an excellent position for an experienced manager with a passion for people's careers and development as well as a keen interest in learning new technical skills. The successful Manager is unlikely to know and fully understand the technical aspects of this role until they have taken some time to learn. The role will offer a steep learning curve initially so the successful Manager needs to have a strong enough personality to manage a team whilst still learning the ropes.

For more information about this position please contact Peter Hutchins at Circle Recruitment.

Six Sigma, Lean, Capacity planning, Efficiency, Wealth Management, Trade Lifecycle, Client Facing, SLA's, Banking

Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them.

PMO Manager - Global Investment Bank

A leading Global Investment Bank is looking for a PMO Manager to join the Client Data Services Organisation which is responsible for the operational running of processes and any transformation change relating to the on-boarding of clients covering Know Your Client (KYC), Regulatory and Tax Classification, account set up and the maintenance of client reference data.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right PMO Manager to join a Client Data Services Tax Programme.

Responsibilities:

- Helping to establish a central Project Management Office (PMO) function for Tax
- Supporting and maintaining the flow of communication between key stakeholders across the programme
- Financial Management
- Presenting findings, problem statements and business requirements with supporting documentation
- Providing support to the Project Manager
- Taking minutes at PMO meetings and pro-actively managing the progress on actions and decisions
- Governing the PMO SharePoint site

Skills required:

• Previous experience working as a PMO Analyst within Financial Services
• Anti-Money Laundering/Know Your Client or Compliance related experience
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• MS Office proficient
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organisational and attention to detail skills

Graduate Risk Analyst - Global Investment Bank

A Global Investment Bank is looking for a Risk Monitoring Risk Analyst to join their Risk Management team covering all Global markets Products.

The role is essentially looking at portfolios to assure they are compliant.

4 core elements of the role:

1 - Financial Engineering of capital markets products

2 - Risk Analytics across a number of portfolios

3 - Involved in System and Data related work

4- 3rd party relationship management with portfolio managers with Hedgefunds throughout the world

Great opportunity for someone to get in to Global markets at a top tier firm and get amazing exposure to senior stakeholders throughout the industry.

Will also have the opportunity to gain experience across all major asset classes and products and how to manage risk across those products.

Skills required:

Financial Services experience (Ideal)

Degree in a Mathematical subject (Physics, Engineering, Maths, Computer Science etc) - ideally from Redbrick University with top level grades.

It is an exciting time at EY as we look towards growing our business in the UK with a key focus in the Birmingham and surrounding areas. As a result we have a fantastic opportunity an experienced Recruiter to join our award winning in house recruitment team at EY working to support our Tax Service Line, finding future talent that will enable EY to deliver our strategy

The Opportunity:

Working as a valued member of the UK&I Experience Hired recruitment team, you have the opportunity to deliver a best in class candidate experience and identify talent in the market directly. We're looking for someone like you who has the autonomy to become a key business partner to your stakeholders, offering advice on best practice defining a sourcing strategy to deliver the end-to-end recruitment processes across your portfolio.

Your Key Responsibilities:

You'll spend most of your time independently driving the planning, coordination and delivery of recruitment for a specific business area or sub service level. Partners, Directors and Senior Managers will look to you for best practice, market knowledge and the ability to source exceptional talent. Furthermore, you will act as an ambassador, embodying the EY culture and reputation.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Demonstrating a broad knowledge and experience of recruiting end to end and attracting direct candidates from a variety of sources - headhunting candidates directly for vacancies, resourcing candidates from job boards, recruitment portals, etc.
• Managing stakeholder and candidate expectations throughout recruitment, managing the offer process for potential joiners and ensuring all candidates receive feedback on interview outcomes, including delivering sensitive and difficult messages
• Managing relationships with third parties, such as recruitment agencies and head-hunters within agreed terms and highlighting/escalating issues to recruitment manager
• Delivering on direct sourcing targets by focusing on direct recruitment across a number of areas, researching and generating a candidate pipeline from internal and external sources, both UK and international, as well as promoting and developing alternative recruitment channels
• Developing a strong network of candidates up to and including senior manager level in the external market, new joiners and key business contacts
• Accurately collecting and reporting on data for specific KPI's or produces reports for the team
• Contributing and leading on projects and recruitment wide initiatives

To Qualify for the Role you must have:

• Previous end to end recruitment experience, ideally in-house
• Able to apply knowledge or take a fresh perspective to solve complex problems and issues that arise
• Time and project management skills - able to plan and manage time effectively and flex up and down to deal with key priorities
• Ability to interact well with people at all levels within the firm
• Strong IT skills - Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Highly organised with a sound attention to detail and an ability to deliver to deadlines

Ideally, you'll also have:

• An enthusiastic, can do approach and be a strong team player
• The ability to juggle conflicting demands on time and prioritise effectively
• The ability to pre-empt deadlines and pursue colleagues for relevant information
• A desire to embrace and drive change whilst identifying and supporting process improvements and demonstrating best practice
• Ability to learn new processes and skills quickly
• The ability to work well unsupervised and use initiative where required

What We Look for:

You will be an experienced Recruitment Advisor with a passion for direct sourcing and desire to provide an exceptional candidate experience. You will also work closely with Partners and Directors across the business so the ability to build strong and effective relationships, delivering at times difficult messages, will also be key.

What working at EY Offers:

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we're using the finance products, expertise and systems we've developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we'll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

As a Recruitment Account Support Representative you will work closely with an appointed Account Manager, to identify suitable applicants for current vacancies.
Your role will include researching the candidates database, and utilising other candidate platforms to source candidates.
You will be required to fully qualify candidates with regards to rate, and availability for the roles.
Interpret a requirement specification to identify criteria for undertaking candidate searches.
Negotiate with candidates and clients at all stages of the sourcing process.
Arrange interviews with both the candidate and the client as required.
Maintain the candidate database, by updating electronic records in line with our processes and procedures.
Ensure that all potential candidates have the right to work.
Carry out and be fully effective in building existing and new relationships with clients/candidates.
Contribute to a professional and well respected service through the provision of high standards of customer service - in line with our service level agreements.
It is required that applicants have experience of building and maintaining effective relationships over the telephone, and must have a strong customer service background.
Must have the ability to take a pro-active, results focused approach, in a target related environment.
Be able to work under pressure to sometimes tight deadlines.
Have excellent communication skills with a strong telephone manner.
Be a team player.
It would be highly desirable if applicants have previous recruitment experience at resourcer or account support level, or have experience of selling over the telephone.

Please contact Rebecca Sabin for further information.

Certes Computing (and all of its subsidiary companies) is committed to promoting equality and diversity in its business operations.

Maintenance Engineer (Electrically Biased) - Birmingham - up to £32,000

Electrically biased Maintenance Engineer required by a steel manufacturing company in the Birmingham area, paying up to £32,000.

My client are looking for an experienced Maintenance Engineer who is fully qualified electrically.

Skills Required:

• Must have full Electrical Qualifications
• Multi-skilled, with experience working with hydraulic/pneumatic/mechanical systems is advantageous.
• Experience working in heavy industry

If you'd like to be put forward for this role please email me with your most up to date CV ASAP.

We are currently recruiting Trainee Resourcers to join our team based in Marston Green, Birmingham. We are an established IT Recruitment business who specialise in contract, permanent and bespoke recruitment.

Job Title - Trainee Resourcer

Location - Marston Green, Birmingham

Salary - £16,000 - 20,000 dependent upon experience, plus commission

As the Trainee Resourcer your role will be to provide support to the account management team by sourcing suitable candidates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Place contract and permanent resource into our clients, maximising margins.
• Develop and nurture professional relationships with candidates and ensure high standards of service are maintained.
• Work closely with Account Managers to provide high levels of support
• Establish network of prime candidates to support sales process
• To resource all opportunities, supporting the team throughout the whole resourcing life cycle to timescales agreed either by client and/or recruitment consultant/team leader
• Seek out innovative methods of sourcing candidates
• Use all possible opportunities to contact candidates - eg Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

The ideal candidate will have excellent customer service experience, good telephone manner and great communication skills. Previous sales, telesales, telemarketing experience would be highly advantageous. Full training will be given.