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