Talent Operations Associate

Talent Operations Associate (Contract-to-Hire, Remote) Parkside /Antal are working with a start up tech company who builds high-quality finance and modelling workflows that depend on excellent expert talent. Their bar is not generic output or polished templates; they care about real, company-specific, substantively useful work. Because their standards are exceptionally high, recruiting, evaluating, and managing strong experts is core to how they operate.The Opportunity This is an operations-heavy recruiting role for someone who can move quickly, stay organized, communicate clearly, and improve a process while running it. You will help the company source and evaluate expert talent, manage relationships with recruiting partners, coordinate candidate flow, and keep the team aligned on funnel performance.

• Location: 100% Remote
• Time Commitment: 20-40 hours per week
• Type: Contract-to-hire (Initial contract for the first 2 months, with the explicit goal of converting to a full-time role upon successful completion).

Who You Are We are open to a range of non-traditional backgrounds. You might come from recruiting, talent operations, consulting, finance operations, back-office at a finance firm, executive search support, or agency recruiting. You do not need a traditional recruiting background if you are sharp, organised, highly communicative, and able to take radical ownership. What You'll Do

• Candidate Evaluation: Conduct intro, qualification, and follow-up calls with experts; evaluate communication quality, availability, and alignment with the company's high standards.
• Partner Management: Serve as the main point of contact for external recruiting agencies and head-hunters; keep them calibrated with fast, specific candidate feedback.
• Pipeline Ownership: Maintain candidate trackers, monitor funnel stages (from submission to offer/rejection), and aggressively eliminate bottlenecks in scheduling.
• Process Optimization: Help implement project management systems to make recruiting faster, cleaner, and easier to scale.
• Reporting: Prepare weekly summaries covering pipeline health, partner performance, conversion rates, and action items.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 1-4+ years in talent operations, agency/corporate recruiting, business operations, consulting, finance back-office, or another high-signal role.
• Execution Mindset: Low-ego, practical, and execution-oriented with strong follow-up discipline—nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable hosting calls with high-profile experts and external partners.
• Tech Savvy: Highly comfortable working in spreadsheets, trackers, and modern project management tools.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience recruiting high-calibre finance profiles (Investment Banking, PE, FP&A, Consulting).
• Familiarity with financial modelling, Excel-heavy roles, or expert networks.
• Experience building recruiting dashboards or structured hiring processes from scratch.

What Success Looks Like Within your first two months, you will have taken full ownership of candidate flow, built clean visibility into our funnel, improved our scheduling speed, and helped us identify our highest-performing recruiting partners. Your successful execution during this window will unlock your transition into a full-time role.