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People & Recruitment Advisor – FTC (Maternity Cover)

Location: Farringdon, London (Hybrid 2–3 days office)
Industry: Financial Services / Professional Services
Start: Immediate / Short Notice Preferred
Salary: Competitive + Full Benefits

We are partnering with a highly respected, people?centric firm within the financial services sector to appoint a People & Recruitment Advisor on a fixed?term maternity cover contract. This is an excellent opportunity for a capable HR professional to expand their advisory skillset in a collaborative, high?performance environment.

The role is broad, varied and hands?on—spanning recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, learning & development, events and wider People & Culture initiatives.

The Opportunity

You will take ownership of the end?to?end recruitment process, including drafting role profiles, advertising, shortlisting, screening candidates, coordinating interviews and supporting offer management. You will also ensure a seamless onboarding and induction experience for all new starters and support people?related aspects of acquisition integrations. Future recruitment initiatives—such as early careers and apprenticeships—will also sit within your remit.

You will handle low?complexity employee relations matters such as absence queries, probation reviews and informal performance issues, with support from senior colleagues. You’ll provide confident policy guidance to managers and maintain accurate case documentation.

Within learning & development, you will help coordinate technical, compliance and soft?skills training sessions, liaise with internal experts and external providers, maintain training records and follow up on development needs identified in performance reviews.

You will contribute to internal events across the firm, supporting logistics, communications and collaboration with the marketing team on event materials.

General People Operations responsibilities will include supporting cyclical HR processes, assisting with the leavers process and internal communications, maintaining accurate people data, updating organisation charts, coordinating recognition gifts, tracking team expenditure and sharing responsibility for the People inbox.

You will also support People & Culture projects and engagement initiatives, helping improve processes and employee experience across the business.

About You

You will bring strong HR generalist capability gained within a financial services environment — this is a mandatory requirement due to the regulatory and operational context of the role.

In addition, you will bring:

• Confidence managing full recruitment processes
• Experience using HR systems and strong Microsoft Office skills (especially Outlook and Excel)
• CIPD Level 5 (completed or currently studying) – desirable
• Excellent relationship?building and communication skills
• Strong judgement, organisation, discretion and attention to detail
• Ability to manage a varied workload and respond to changing business priorities
• Familiarity with GDPR, employment law and working within FCA?regulated settings

Bruin recognises the positive value of diversity, and aims to promote equality and challenge unfair discrimination. As a champion of equal opportunity employment we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions and beliefs. We particularly encourage applications from women, disabled, and Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services industry. Our clients work with us because they value a diverse workforce, and subscribe to our shared principle that all appointments are made on merit and that ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration.