Job Description

About our Business

CBIZ CMF, a 100+ person national consulting practice, is the dedicated private equity advisory division of CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ).  We are focused on providing private equity groups and their related portfolio companies with consulting services and solutions focused on (i) deal advisory; and (ii) performance management & improvement.  Our team embraces a collaborative, client-centric approach to architecting and delivering on projects driven by ongoing transactions, transitions and transformations within our client base.  We believe that the diverse perspectives of all our team members help to drive innovation and transformative results for our business.  We are entrepreneurially minded and operate as a meritocracy, promoting and compensating team members based upon performance and potential.   

Our clients are benefitted by additional scope and scale provided through CBIZ, which has over 100 offices and nearly 5,000 employees across North America, focused on providing top-level financial and employee focused professional services to organizations of all sizes.

CBIZ has been honored to be the recipient of several national recognitions:

• 2020 Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services by Great Place to Work®
• 2019 America’s Best Mid-Size Employers by Forbes
• 2019 Workplace Excellence Seal of Approval by the Alliance for Workplace Excellence
• Top 101 highest scoring companies in the country for Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources

Together, CBIZ and Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. (MHM) are ranked as one of the top providers of accounting services in the United States. MHM is an independent CPA firm that provides audit, review and attest services, while CBIZ provides, business consulting, tax and financial services. 

About the Role

 

The Research Associate will help the business scale by identifying top talent for consulting positions.  This position will conduct market research, competitive intelligence and talent mapping to find and engage top talent across the firms’ service lines.
 

• Conduct research to map markets and generate candidate names and profiles
• Contribute to the knowledge base of the firms’ recruiting team by providing education on markets, talent pools, profiles
• Engage and build relationships with candidates, and perform initial dialogue
• Build out talent networks in certain functions/markets
• Participate in service line update meetings on active projects and prepare reports
• Shadow interviews and debriefs
• Provide guidance and advice in a true partnership with leadership

Preferred Qualifications

 

• 2-3 years of experience in a market or candidate research function
• Inquisitive, with a strong desire to learn
• Highly articulate, strong communication skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset, can keep up with a fast paced recruiting culture
• Qualitative research skills, including the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and quickly learn new spaces

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 1 year of relevant experience
• Must be able to work in a team environment
• Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing throughout all levels oforganization, both internally and externally
• Proficient use of applicable technology
• Must be able to travel based on client and business needs