Recruiting Specialist - Financial Services

Accenture; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 59,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Illinois is seeking a Talent Acquisition professional to lead end-to-end recruitment within the Financial Services sector. You will manage assessments, coordinate interviews, and partner with hiring managers to extend offers.

The role requires strong communication, negotiation, and organization skills, with a focus on delivering diverse, high-quality hires while staying current with market trends. This is a full-time position in the Chicago area.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in recruiting or talent acquisition.
• Bachelor's Degree Experience or familiarity with hiring in the Financial Services Industry
• Experience with end-to-end recruiting lifecycle
• Advanced communication skills.
• Intermediate negotiation skills.
• Advanced interpersonal skills.
• Intermediate organizational skills.
• Beginner data analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Communicate process updates and provide status reports to candidates, hiring managers, and stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates throughout the recruiting cycle.
• Manage assessments in alignment with position requirements.
• Schedule and participate in interviews or panel sessions.
• Assess candidate qualifications, prepare, and extend offer letters.
• Maintain up-to-date market knowledge and expertise in various geographical recruitment trends.
• Drive improvements in delivery, quality, diversity, and cost targets for recruiting processes.

Skills

Advanced communication

Intermediate negotiation

Advanced interpersonal

Intermediate organizational

Beginner data analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Financial Services hiring familiarity

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate process updates and provide status reports to candidates, hiring managers, and stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates throughout the recruiting cycle.
• Manage assessments in alignment with position requirements.
• Schedule and participate in interviews or panel sessions.
• Assess candidate qualifications, prepare, and extend offer letters.
• Maintain up-to-date market knowledge and expertise in various geographical recruitment trends.
• Drive improvements in delivery, quality, diversity, and cost targets for recruiting processes.

Basic Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in recruiting or talent acquisition

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Experience or familiarity with hiring in the Financial Services Industry
• Experience with end-to-end recruiting lifecycle
• Advanced communication skills.
• Intermediate negotiation skills.
• Advanced interpersonal skills.
• Intermediate organizational skills.
• Beginner data analysis skills.

Compensation

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/15/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

Annual Salary Range

• California $70,350 to $154,800
• Colorado $63,800 to $133,700
• Connecticut $63,800 to $133,700
• District of Columbia $68,000 to $142,400
• Illinois $59,100 to $133,700
• Maine $54,400 to $113,900
• Maryland $63,800 to $133,700
• Massachusetts $63,800 to $142,400
• Minnesota $63,800 to $133,700
• New York $66,300 to $154,800
• New Jersey $68,000 to $154,800
• Ohio $59,100 to $123,800
• Virginia $59,100 to $142,400
• Washington $80,200 to $142,400

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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