Recruiter: Natilla Turner
Attracting Brilliant Talent – Finance Talent Acquisition Partner (Finance)
Location: Bristol, London (Hybrid Working - 3 days in the office, 2 remote)
At BT, we're not just a telecommunications company. We're a force for good, a hub of innovation, and a place where purpose and technology converge. With a rich heritage as industry pioneers spanning 180 years, we've been connecting the world. Today, we stand as a symbol of progress and excellence, a brand synonymous with impact.
What We Offer
Your growth is our priority. With BT Group, you'll unlock unparalleled personal development. We offer abundant opportunities for learning, exploration, and new career avenues. As you evolve, so do we.
Be Part of Our Future
Contribute your skills, expertise, and passion to a team shaping the digital landscape and fostering an inclusive tomorrow.
Discover your potential at BT Group.
Why This Role Matters
Our ambitions and plans can only become reality through our people. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring that BT continues to attract and secure exceptional talent.
As a Talent Acquisition Partner specialising in Finance, you will collaborate closely with key stakeholders and hiring managers in the Finance business unit. Your focus will be on acquiring the right skills for the future while maintaining a strong commitment to fostering diversity and inclusivity. This will enable BT to deliver exceptional services to its customers and continue to connect for the greater good.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategic Partnership: You'll be a trusted partner, working strategically with your stakeholders to plan and deliver inclusive hiring within the Finance business unit.
Proactive Talent Acquisition: You will take a proactive and inclusive approach to talent acquisition by building robust networks and talent pipelines.
Exceptional Talent Acquisition: You will drive efforts to attract, source, identify, assess, and onboard outstanding talent aligned with the organization’s growth strategy.
Insight-led Approach: You'll deliver insight-led approaches to talent acquisition, policy, processes, and framework to ensure consistency and marketplace competitiveness.
End-to-end Recruitment: You will manage end-to-end recruitment processes, including search, mapping, and candidate relations management for manager-level positions.
Diversity Hiring: Your focus will be on generating diverse shortlists by embedding diverse hiring practices throughout the hiring process.
Candidate Experience: You'll manage candidate experiences, ensuring superior engagement is felt and perceived by both hiring managers and candidates throughout the recruitment process.
Data-Driven Recruitment: You will adopt a data-first approach to recruitment, using meaningful insights to facilitate great decision-making.
Brand Ambassadorship: You'll contribute to Talent Acquisition’s brand ambassadorship in the external talent marketplace, demonstrating our values and leadership skills to inspire others, both internally and externally.
Leadership Responsibilities
Mentoring: You will mentor other professionals, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
Knowledge Sharing: You will champion, continuously develop, and share knowledge on emerging trends and changes in Talent Acquisition with the team.
Your Experience: What We Value
- Direct Sourcing Experience – gained working within an in-house environment or RPO.
- Talent Acquisition Strategy – the ability to develop and execute attraction strategies.
- Market Analysis & Research – Ability to provide data-led insight to underpin strategies and inform decision-making.
- Superb Stakeholder Management Skills – Adaptable and capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- Relationship Management - Creative agencies, wider business support functions, and external partners.
- Business Partnering – Ability to build trusted partnerships with business areas, linking in with wider teams (including Workforce Management, People Analytics, Operations, HRBPs, LLTD).
What’s in it for you? What are the benefits?
At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organization with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity.
Benefits of working for BT include:
- Up to 10% bonus
- 25 days’ annual leave (not including bank holidays)
- Pension scheme - you contribute 5%, BT contributes 10%
- Family Healthcare
- Discounted broadband, and EE Mobile
- Season ticket loan and cycle-to-work schemes and many more flexible benefits to fit around you
- Access and involvement with our incredible 11 People Networks including Able2 network, Carers network, Ethnic diversity network, Gender equality network, and Pride network
- Volunteering days, so you can give back to your local community
A Few points to note:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria.
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, and people to possibilities. We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck into tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, and make things happen. But you won’t be alone!