Front Office Researcher (Financial Services)

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential. We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Front Office Researcher to join our team, supporting recruitment efforts for roles at all levels within Global Markets and Investment Banking.

Responsibilities:

The role encompasses a wide variety of responsibilities to support effective direct recruitment function:

• Assisting senior recruiters with day-to-day activities on the desk.
• Understanding job requirements and screening applications, as well as shortlisting candidates for advertised or proactively sourced roles.
• Building and maintaining candidate pipelines for future vacancies, including formatting and updating market maps.
• Conducting phone screenings for shortlisted candidates applying to analyst and associate positions.
• Maintaining regular communication with candidates throughout their interview process, tracking timelines, preferences, concerns, and other relevant details.
• Providing constructive feedback to candidates post-interview.
• Managing candidate tracking systems, including creating, requesting, or modifying requisitions and advertising job openings.
• Ensuring timely scheduling of interviews and follow-ups.
• Developing knowledge of financial products, investment banking, and global markets business lines.
• Collaborating with onboarding teams and wider HR functions.
• Participating in broader team initiatives.

Requirements

• A degree in finance or knowledge of financial instruments is advantageous
• 1+ years of experience in financial services sales or recruitment.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Self-motivated with a proactive approach and positive attitude.
• Strong multitasking abilities; capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment under pressure.
• Fluent in spoken and written English; proficiency in another European language is a plus.

Benefits:

• A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
• A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
• Private medical insurance
• A fantastic training and development programme
• Volunteer time off
• The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
• Employee wellbeing through various programmes
• You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP

As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.

This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

Robert Walters - Global Talent Solutions

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