Talent Acquisition Specialist

About Meaden & Moore:

Meaden & Moore is a leading accounting, tax, advisory, and business consulting firm serving middle-market businesses, insurance carriers, law firms, and other organizations across the United States. The firm provides a broad range of services including forensic accounting, litigation support, risk advisory, tax, assurance, and business consulting solutions.

Having recently partnered with Unity Partners, Meaden & Moore is entering an exciting new phase of growth. The company is executing a strategy focused on organic expansion, operational excellence, and strategic acquisitions, creating significant opportunities for team members to help shape the future of a rapidly growing firm. As the business continues to grow, Meaden & Moore is investing in talent, technology, and infrastructure to support its next chapter.

About Unity Partners:

Unity Partners is a private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas that invests in founder- and family-owned business services companies across North America. The firm partners with management teams to accelerate growth through operational improvements, technology enablement, talent development, and strategic M&A.

Unlike traditional financial investors, Unity takes a collaborative approach to value creation, working closely alongside management teams to build market-leading platforms. The firm focuses on long-term partnership, operational excellence, and creating sustainable growth for employees, customers, and shareholders.

Opportunity:

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for supporting the firm’s talent acquisition efforts with primary focus on a dedicated service line, while also assisting with support services searches and recruiting needs across other departments as needed.

This role will partner closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager and internal stakeholders to understand service line hiring needs, support recruitment strategy, manage high-volume searches, and maintain active candidate pipelines.

The Talent Acquisition Specialist must be proactive in sourcing and engaging passive candidates, effectively communicating the Meaden & Moore brand and career opportunities, and providing diligent, timely follow-up to candidates and internal stakeholders throughout the recruitment process.

Responsibilities:

• Manage recruiting activity for a dedicated service line, while also supporting support services searches and other departmental recruiting needs as directed by the Talent Acquisition Manager.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition Manager, service line leaders, office leads, and department stakeholders to understand hiring needs, role priorities, search expectations, and candidate profiles.
• Manage high-volume recruiting searches by maintaining organized pipelines, tracking candidate activity, balancing competing priorities, and ensuring searches continue to move forward.
• Proactively source, engage, and screen active and passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, referrals, networking, social media, professional associations, and other creative sourcing strategies.
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines for current and future hiring needs within the assigned service line and other areas of the firm.
• Conduct pre-screening interviews by phone, video, or in person to assess candidate qualifications, interest level, compensation expectations, location preferences, and overall fit with firm needs.
• Effectively communicate the Meaden & Moore brand, culture, career opportunities, and service line-specific value proposition to prospective candidates.
• Maintain timely, professional, and diligent follow-up with candidates, hiring managers, and internal stakeholders throughout the recruitment process.
• Utilize the firm’s applicant tracking system to manage the recruitment process and ensure candidate profiles, activity notes, requisition details, and search updates are complete and accurate.
• Assist with recruitment strategy, sourcing plans, workforce planning, search prioritization, process improvement initiatives, and other recruiting projects.
• Maintain recruiting documents, dashboards, trackers, requisition priority lists, Predictive Index Job Targets, and other tools that support recruiting operations and planning.
• Maintain relationships with relevant professional organizations, state accounting societies, universities, referral sources, and networking groups to support talent acquisition efforts.
• Support fair and equitable hiring practices and partner with the DEI Committee or other internal groups to help attract qualified talent from a variety of sources.
• Work independently to identify potential recruiting challenges, recommend next steps, escalate issues appropriately, and maintain alignment with the Talent Acquisition Manager.
• Provide assistance with additional human resources projects and administrative functions as needed to meet the needs of the firm.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field required.
• Minimum 3 years of recruiting experience, preferably in a professional services environment.
• Familiar with social media platforms for sharing position information.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from candidates and colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• Microsoft Office and ATS software skills.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Must be a self-starter, being able to work independently and on a team.
• The ability to prioritize and meet set deadlines.
• Flexible, positive, can-do attitude.
• Experience managing high-volume recruiting pipelines, including sourcing for multiple active roles at one time and maintaining diligent follow-up with candidates and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to source and engage passive candidates and effectively sell an employer brand, team culture, and role opportunity.
• Strong judgment, initiative, and ability to operate independently while collaborating appropriately with the Talent Acquisition Manager and other stakeholders.
• SHRM-CP or SHRM PHR is a plus.
• SHRM Talent Acquisition Credential is a plus.
• Experience using Linkedin Recruiter is a plus.

Benefits, Perks, Culture, and Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievements as well.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Benefits/Compensation:

Determining actual compensation relies on many factors including individual candidate experience, qualifications, and comparable benchmarks. Base compensation for this role typically ranges between $72,000 - $81,000. Additionally, we offer discretionary year-end bonuses to supplement your compensation package.

In addition to compensation and bonus opportunities, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees professionally and personally. Our offerings include:

Benefits & Offerings:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Generous PTO and paid holidays

• 401(k) matching and profit sharing

• Professional development support

• Professional certification support and reimbursement

• Employee referral and new business bonus opportunities

• Wellness and employee assistance resources

• Long-term career growth and advancement opportunities

• Parental bonding time and compensation continuance

• Flexible and hybrid work opportunities, where applicable

Culture & Perks:

• Team outings, firm events, and holiday celebrations

• Busy season appreciation and stress-relief programs

• Wellness initiatives and incentives

• Technology, retailer, and event discounts

• Employee Resource Groups

• Strong commitment to community involvement, volunteerism, and charitable giving

Learn More About Life at Meaden & Moore:

• Why Us

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• Our Culture & Employee Experience