Talent Acquisition - Assistant Manager - Dublin (11… at EY · Dublin

Talent Acquisition - Assistant Manager – Dublin (11 month FTC)

• Job Title: Talent Acquisition Assistant Manager
• Location: Dublin, Ireland
• Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: No
• Business Area: CBS (Core Business Services)

The opportunity

Are you ready to be at the heart of a fast-growing, dynamic environment? As a Talent Acquisition Assistant Manager, you will play a key role in shaping the future of EY by managing and driving recruitment delivery in full across multiple business areas while coaching and training junior recruiters, influencing workforce planning decisions, and driving operational excellence across the Talent Acquisition function. You will act as a trusted talent advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring recruitment strategies align with business priorities, market realities, and EY’s quality and compliance standards.

This is your chance to influence the recruitment agenda and be part of a team that is driving change and innovation across the business.

The purpose of this role is to drive end-to-end recruitment for EY Ireland, balancing speed and candidate experience with rigorous data and compliance standards. Success means healthy pipelines, fast but governed hiring decisions, strong stakeholder partnerships, operational excellence, and recruitment processes that meet EY’s quality and audit standards.

Your key responsibilities

• Operational excellence: Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, ensuring compliance and accurate data management across all recruitment systems. Identify operational bottlenecks and implement scalable solutions to improve recruitment performance and operational efficiency. Drive evaluation and selection processes, coaching interviewers and delivering tailored guidance where needed.

• Talent attraction and pipeline management: Monitor pipeline health, ageing requisitions, interview feedback compliance, hiring manager responsiveness and overall recruitment effectiveness, operating to a high standard with strong attention to detail. Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical and future hiring needs, ensuring a proactive approach to workforce planning. Source top-tier talent using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, AI-driven tools, market insights and other digital sourcing platforms. Lead pre-screening conversations to evaluate candidate skills, experience and readiness for progression through the recruitment process.

• Team Accountability: Lead by example and coach junior recruiters, supporting onboarding, capability development and internal training as needed. Act as an escalation point for recruitment challenges, stakeholder concerns and candidate issues. Promote knowledge sharing, innovation and best practice across the team, helping to drive consistency and continuous improvement.

• Stakeholder Management & Talent Advisory: Partner with senior stakeholders to understand business priorities and talent needs, providing strategic consultation on workforce planning, talent market conditions, sourcing strategies and hiring risks. Build trusted relationships with senior business leaders and hiring managers, acting as a talent advisor and supporting informed hiring decisions. Challenge hiring assumptions constructively, providing candidate benchmarking, market insights and skills-based hiring recommendations. Drive accountability across hiring teams and teams/functions involved in recruitment and onboarding processes, ensuring adherence to agreed recruitment processes and timelines.

• Data & Insights: Leverage dashboards and data insights to monitor pipeline health, recruitment effectiveness and hiring outcomes. Analyse recruitment trends, conversion rates, sourcing effectiveness, time-to-hire and pipeline health to influence strategic hiring decisions. Deliver executive-level recruitment reporting, insights and recommendations to business leaders. Use recruitment data to proactively identify risks, forecast hiring challenges and improve hiring outcomes.

• Candidate Experience, Inclusiveness & Employer Brand: Create an exceptional candidate experience through clear communication, timely engagement and effective stakeholder collaboration. Embed inclusiveness principles into sourcing and selection activities, promoting inclusive hiring practices and balanced representation across talent pipelines. Support the development and execution of employer branding and talent attraction strategies, including social media campaigns, recruitment events, career fairs and targeted attraction initiatives, helping to strengthen EY’s market presence, build future talent pipelines and support current and future hiring needs.

• Compliance, Risk & Continuous Improvement: Lead by example in ensuring full compliance with EY recruitment policies, GDPR, ISQM controls, candidate evaluation standards and audit readiness obligations, while identifying opportunities for improvement. Suggest and guide recruitment transformation initiatives, including AI-enabled sourcing, automation, process optimisation and reporting enhancements. Champion adoption of recruitment technologies, data tools and innovative sourcing methodologies. Guide hiring managers and junior recruiters on the effective use of recruitment platforms, supporting enablement sessions and coaching team members on tool usage and troubleshooting.

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience in experience hire professional services recruitment.
• Proven experience in full-cycle Talent Acquisition, with strong knowledge of recruitment systems and best practices.
• Expertise in sourcing techniques and tools, with a track record of success in sourcing technical talent.
• Demonstrated experience guiding, coaching or training junior recruiters.
• Proven ability to successfully influence senior stakeholders and challenge constructively.
• Strong workforce planning and talent advisory capability.
• Strong time management and prioritisation, able to handle multiple requisitions and deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment, while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Experience driving operational improvements and recruitment transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of recruitment governance, audit controls and risk management.
• Advanced data analysis and reporting capability, with the ability to apply insights to influence hiring outcomes.
• Experience managing escalations and complex hiring situations.
• Commitment to delivering a seamless candidate experience and promoting inclusive hiring practices.
• Adaptability, resilience and a proactive positive approach.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Familiarity with digital recruitment marketing strategies.
• CIPD certification or equivalent.

What we look for

We’re looking for someone who is innovative, agile and purpose-driven. You’ll thrive in a dynamic environment, embrace inclusivity and be motivated by results. Your resilience and drive will help shape the future of EY.

The ideal candidate combines strong recruitment expertise with leadership capability. They are recognised as a trusted advisor, capable of developing others, influencing stakeholders, using data to drive decisions, managing risk effectively and continuously improving recruitment outcomes. They will balance exceptional recruitment delivery with operational excellence, stakeholder influence and a commitment to quality, compliance and candidate experience.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package. 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 and coaching 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

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

• Pension

• Cash incentives for referrals

• Maternity & Paternity leave

• Hybrid Working

• Discounted health insurance

• Work Mobile

• Bike to work Scheme

• EY Gym

• Web Doctor - Free unlimited online GP consultations for you and your family

• TECH MBA paid by EY

• Recognition Awards

• Travel Pass

• The purchase of additional annual leave

• Wellness rooms available in some offices

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.

Career Progression

• When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one.
• Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees.

Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximise the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.

To help create an equitable and inclusive experience during the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible about any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

IMPORTANT: Where agency assistance is required, our Talent Team will engage directly with suppliers. CVs / profiles should not be shared directly with Hiring Managers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to EY by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.