Michele Edwards (she/her)
Talent & Recruitment Senior Manager @ Grant Thornton UK
About
As a Senior Manager in Recruitment, I’m passionate about driving a high-performance culture that empowers teams to deliver exceptional results. I lead with purpose—championing behaviours that foster accountability, agility, and continuous improvement, while always keeping client service excellence at the heart of everything we do. I translate strategic workforce plans into actionable recruitment strategies, balancing proactive talent pipelining with responsive hiring solutions. By aligning recruitment delivery with service line priorities, I ensure our approach is both impactful and adaptable to evolving business needs. I’m committed to role-modelling performance standards and embedding a culture of consistent feedback and coaching. Through clear KPIs and robust reporting, I monitor progress and continuously refine our approach to maximise value. Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders is central to my role. I proactively manage expectations and advocate for the recruitment team’s reputation for excellence, ensuring we’re seen as strategic partners across the business. I also lead the delivery of key priorities within our Recruitment Value Creation Plan—driving measurable progress and collaborating across teams to achieve our shared goals.
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United Kingdom
Financial Services
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Diary Management, Microsoft Word, Risk Management, Audio Typing, PowerPoint, Payroll, Mail Merge, Training, Client Billing, Client Administration, Corporate Tax, External Audit, Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Financial Statements, IFRS, Tax, Invoicing
Experience

Talent and Recruitment Manager
Responsible for National experienced hire of Large and Complex, focusing on Advisory and Internal Audit, which includes: IT, Payments, Insurance, Public Services, Financial Modelling and Healthcare Forensic Accounting Cyber Security and Defence Data tech, data science, data modelling Financial Services Regulation Business Consultancy Actuarial (life and non life) Risk Management

Regional Recruiter
Manchester, United Kingdom
• Responsible for Audit, Public Sector Audit, Wealth Advisory, HR, internal finance and bulk recruitment for the North. Including collaborating with hiring managers when taking briefs, managing stakeholder expectations and proactively candidate sourcing from job boards and LinkedIn • Conducting high volume candidate screening including telephone interviews for level 1 and 2b roles across all service lines and providing feedback and recommendations to hiring managers • Delivering thorough interview preparation with external candidates ensuring that they are aware of our CLEARR values and competencies • Assisting internal candidates through consultation process, providing them with interview preparation, practice and CV writing assistance • End to end interview management including proposal and facilitation of interview feedback sessions on multiple vacancy recruitment • Proactively creating and maintaining market maps, talent pools and candidate networks • Conducting agency briefing sessions and ensuring that they are fully aware of the business needs • Stakeholder engagement including providing statistical analysis, championing the resourcing team and communicating the benefits of agency vs direct sourcing • Compiling and presenting market reports for hard to fill roles both face to face and over the telephone • Actively involved in projects centred on candidate and stakeholder experience, including creating and producing surveys and providing statistical analysis to the wider business • Established and maintained excellent working relationships with regional Partners, management and HRBPs to ensure all aspects of recruitment delivery exceed expectations • Arranging and organising interview bookings, ensuring that all candidates have current and insightful company information in order to perform well at interview

North West tax and audit administrator
I provide efficient, effective and reliable support to the North West Audit and Tax departments (corporate tax, personal tax, VAT, trust, international tax and employer solutions) and undertake client administration.
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