About the Role
This role partners with an experienced talent acquisition specialist to provide additional capacity, a complementary perspective, and shared ownership of staff and senior hiring. You will join a small, close-knit TA team, operating as genuine partners, sharing work, going to market together, and jointly shaping hiring across all levels. Working closely with the CPO, you will cover the full hiring lifecycle from Senior Associate through to Director level, with an active role in our senior Partner pipeline. You will have direct access to the CEO, Chair, and Partners.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage the pipeline
- 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 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
- Continuously improve role briefs, interview frameworks, and assessment approaches
- Manage and optimise the ATS and supporting hiring infrastructure
- Track meaningful hiring metrics
- 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
Requirements
- 5–8 years of talent acquisition experience, either in-house within professional services 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
Skills
- Consultative and intelligent approach to hiring
- Strong relationship building
- Clear and direct communication (written and verbal)
- Commercial awareness
- Comfortable with data
Experience Level
- 5-8 years
Benefits
- 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
About the Company
- Unity Advisory is a PE-backed finance advisory firm, backed by Warburg Pincus, trusted by CFOs and senior finance leaders navigating complex, high-stakes transformation.
- We are scaling deliberately — building something durable, not just fast.
- Talent is one of the few levers that can accelerate or constrain everything we do. That is why this role matters.
