Trio launch agency to modernise recruitment

Three Yorkshire finance recruitment specialists have joined forces to launch a new era of purpose-driven recruitment. 

Joe Ingham, Rachel Frankland and Javed Bobat have partnered to combine their 50 years-plus experience and create a new venture focusing on recruitment within the Yorkshire accountancy and finance market.

The founders of IFF Talent say they are on a mission to go ‘beyond recruitment’.

Javed boasts more than 20 years of industry experience as a finance recruiter, notably launching Marks Sattin in Leeds in 2009 from a start-up to a top three regional agency with a multi-million revenue. 

In 2018, Javed launched FIDE, recruiting within the accountancy and finance market while also offering mental health and wellbeing training and support services.

FIDE will now represent the F in IFF Talent.

Javed said: “Having successfully grown Fide into a socially conscious recruitment business, I’m so excited to come together with two excellent and reputable recruiters who share similar values in wanting to create a bigger, better, purpose-driven recruitment business in IFF Talent. 

“We will ensure our clients and contacts receive an enhanced recruitment agency experience that goes way beyond the transactional part of the process.

"I will also be ensuring the accountancy and finance profession are supported by continuing to drive my social pillar of mental health in the sector.”

Rachel brings 17 years of sector experience to IFF Talent, coming from HW Global Group where she most recently launched new division HW People, which is aimed at emerging leaders. 

Rachel’s social pillar will focus on empowering women in finance and supporting gender equity, and she is keen to highlight how the finance industry needs to embrace female talent at all levels.

Rachel says: “While female representation at the top is growing, challenges remain in finance around pay, culture and supporting women into leadership roles.

"Many talented women still leave the industry as companies fail to support them due to inflexible work structures and limited mentorship."

Joe has spent more than a decade as a respected senior finance recruiter across corporate, independent, boutique and new office start-ups. 

Most recently, he was a partner at recruitment firm Pratap Partnership, responsible for successfully building and growing the interim finance division before the business transitioned to an employee ownership model. 

Joe, who champions social mobility, added: “IFF Talent will look at ways we can further educate ourselves around the importance of social mobility, especially in the current labour market.”

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