introduction to rk group
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Introduction to RK Group
Contents
1. Summary
2. Consultant background
3. Who we work with
4. What sets us apart
5. Core specialisms
6. Added value services
7. Screening processes
8. Supporting information
9. Kellan Group plc
10. Contact information
ABOUT US
RK (Company Information and Overview)
REC membership number 00087559
Summary
RK Group is a leading specialist financial recruitment consultancy operating in
the Midlands, Yorkshire & North West geographies from a regional branch
network (Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Preston). A dedicated
recruitment group operating exclusively in the specialism of finance including
Accountancy, Tax, Audit, Risk and Treasury across the clerical, part qualified
and qualified marketplace.
Established in 1996, the average length of service within the business is over 5
years. With a genuine commitment to long term development, we have built
close links with many businesses, clients, candidates and professional bodies in
local regions. The business was born out of a search and selection recruitment
team and as such we have adopted and continue to use a retained search
methodology whilst offering a contingency-based pricing strategy (i.e.
payment on success).
RK Group is part of AIM-listed Kellan Group PLC, so you can be assured of our
financial stability, corporate infrastructure and be confident in our reputation.
In summary as a business we provide Accountancy and Finance staff across
the North of England and have developed an extensive client and candidate
network over almost 20 years.
The background of the consultants who would be assisting with your resourcing
requirements
Our specialist consultants in central locations have, collectively, over 100 years
of recruitment experience within the accountancy and finance marketplace.
We strive to give an honest and reliable service to both our candidates and
clients alike to allow us to develop longstanding and professional working
relationships built on trust.
Who do we work with?
As a group we coordinate the recruitment of accountancy and finance role
for an extremely diverse range of clients ranging from owner-managed SMEs
& VC/PE-backed businesses through to FTSE 250 organisations.
In the last 12 month period we have successfully coordinated recruitment of
Accountancy and Finance staff for the majority of the large business in Greater
Manchester and surrounding regions. Our client base includes: Manchester
United FC, Sodexo SSC, The Coop Group, Hilti, Bibby, Lookers PLC, OCS, LF
Europe, Northern Rail, Ener-G Group, Sonoco, Virgin Media, Jet2, JCT600,
Manchester Building Society, Timpsons, Your Housing Group, Topps Tiles, Renold
PLC, Gunn JCB, Elior Group.
It is important to us that we are an honest, focused and dedicated recruitment
partner to any business we partner with, irrespective of size or sector. Put simply
we tailor our approach to find you a solution.
What sets us apart from other recruitment companies?
We strike the balance between being a large PLC and a boutique local
specialist recruitment business in the sense that we focus very much on
providing a service tailored to each individual client in our core regions whilst
having the backing, investment, state of the art technology and infrastructure
provided by a PLC parent group.
This allows our clients to have the benefit of close working relationships with a
network of consultants that have a true expertise of their local marketplace
and can offer a unique recruitment experience in line with your specific
requirements whilst also giving your business the reassurance that we have an
overarching parent group.
We strive to give an honest and reliable service to both our candidates and
clients alike to allow us to develop longstanding and professional working
relationships built on trust.
As a team our consultants deliberately focus on working within small
geographical locations which helps us to enhance the level of service that we
provide on a local basis. As an example, we have a dedicated consultant in
our Manchester office who focuses specifically in the recruitment of temporary
clerical finance roles in Greater Manchester. This dedicated approach allows
us to provide our clients truly substantiated advice on the candidate pool in
their catchment areas.
Our approach ensures that the consultants that you would partner with are
able to fully map local candidate pools in your area giving you access to a
relevant database of candidate options to select. Alongside the obvious
benefit of us being confident in our ability to provide candidate shortlists
rapidly it also allows our consultants to provide you with credible and
substantiated insight around local salary benchmarking, skill shortages,
competitor recruitment activities, sector developments and trends and
recruitment challenges.
In short, our consultants know their market, understand their candidate’s skill
sets and aim to work closely with their clients in providing a transparent and
consultative recruitment solution.
Our candidate sourcing strategies, in our opinion, also set us aside from our key
competitors. We invest heavily in candidate attraction and adopt a
’candidate centric’ approach to recruitment.
We are able to give you access to a comprehensive network of local
candidates who have had contact with our business over the past 18 years.
We are an advocate for new media sourcing models: for example we invest
heavily in the Linkedin recruiter tool. This allows direct access to passive
audience and allows us the opportunity to advertise jobs specifically to
relevant passive candidates within a given radius of your organisation.
Our clients also benefit from the pool of candidates generated via referrals
from our diverse and longstanding networks: 40% of the candidates that we
place are through proactive recommendation (from both candidates and
clients).
Our core specialism is Accountancy and Finance recruitment on a
temporary and permanent basis
RK Finance Professionals
Key sectors
Part qualified accountancy and
finance
Qualified accountancy and
finance
Temporary, permanent, interim
and contract recruitment
Specialist in Accountancy and
Finance
Mid to senior level appointments
Typical Roles
Management & Financial
Accountants
Commercial and Operational
Accountants
Analysts
Finance Managers
Financial Controllers
Finance Directors
Senior Transactional Managers
RK Accountancy
Key sectors
Clerical accountancy and
finance
Temporary, permanent and
contract recruitment
Specialist in the recruitment of
clerical and managerial
accountancy and finance staff
Typical Roles
Credit Controllers
Purchase & Sales Ledger Clerks
Payroll professionals
Accounts Trainees
Assistant Accountants
Transactional T/L and Managers
We feel we offer added value services
We are an agency that believe we should be a recruitment partner and as
such, to a large degree, we can tailor our approach to suit your needs.
We can provide maps of the market to outline key competitors and the
individuals within them. We can provide detailed salary benchmarking
information specific to your roles and requirements. As a group we certainly
feel the genuinely credible insight into the market is an ‘added value’ service
in its own right.
We are able to provide and coordinate Thomas psychometric testing for
specific senior appointments should it be requested.
Our consultants can provide on-site interview support to your line managers
should it be appropriate.
We offer interview facilities to our clients looking to arrange meetings off site
(particular benefit to any clients recruiting potentially sensitive or confidential
assignments).
We pride ourselves on being a registered REC member.
We have no restrictions on where we can source candidates from.
Our screening process prior to submitting a candidate is outlined
below
Following a meeting / call to fully understand the specific nature and
requirements of any role specification our consultants immediately begin their
sourcing strategy and screening process.
Our procedures in brief for every candidate;
Initial CV Screen
In depth Telephone Screen (30 minutes – 1 hour per candidate)
In depth face to face competency based interview and CV review (per
candidate 1-2 hours) – Every candidate submitted to Provident will have
been met by a consultant as standard, with no exception (we pride
ourselves on a genuine commitment to vet candidates appropriately,
honestly and diligently)
Reference checking - 360 degree where possible
Qualification checking with institutes
Identity / eligibility checking
Supportive Information
As a group RK have placed EVERY qualified and part qualified
finance role that we have coordinated exclusively since 2012.
97% of our temporary placements completed their assignments in full
or had the assignment extended in 2015.
>40% of our temporary placements in 2015 converted to
permanency during or upon completion of their interim assignment.
95% of our placements made since January 2013 remained in situ for
>12months, 90% of the placements made in that timeframe are still in
situ with the organisations they joined.
40% of our placed candidates are referred to the business through
our extensive network.
Kellan Group PLC
In 2007, we joined a group of specialist professional recruitment brands – Kellan
Group PLC. Whilst continuing to operate as, and retain the specialist expertise
of being, a boutique consultancy. It gives our clients reassurance as to our
financial strength, reach and access to an increasingly global and mobile
talent pool. Within the Kellan Group, we also have boutique IT and
accountancy and finance businesses who are experts in their fields
nationwide, so we are able to provide recruitment solutions in these areas
should Premier Foods have the need.
Being part of a PLC means more than financial strength, it is about being able
to leverage our individual and joint accreditations, awards and quality
processes:
Contact john.smith@rkfinance.co.uk 07436 098 336
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