The Recruitment Finance Podcast

In episode 7 of The Recruitment Finance Podcast, Poonam talks with Stuart Bell on his journey to outsource after hiring someone to do the job internally. Stuart is the founder of Robertson Bell, who specialise in recruiting in accounting and finance roles within the public sector and charity space. Robertson Bell are a leading finance recruiter in the not-for-profit space who have been going for 14 years. In this episode Poonam and Stuart talk about what Robertson Bell have outsourced with regards to their finances; the reasons for having someone internal as opposed to outsourcing; how Stuart went about looking for outsourced providers. 

In episode 6 of The Recruitment Finance Podcast, Poonam talks all things marketing with Rob Quirk.  Rob has 13 years of experience of working in marketing and is currently the Marketing Director at Tempting Ventures where he looks after their clients. In this episode Poonam and Rob discuss topics such as the importance of sales, marketing, and finance to be aligned to work together; the misconception of marketing; and the ratios that businesses should use to assess whether they're spending the correct amount on marketing. 

In episode 5 Poonam talks all things Recruitment Process Outsourcing with Tara Ricks. Tara is an experienced individual with over 20 years experience in the recruitment industry. Tara also developed and managed award winning finance recruiter Joslin Rowe Associates. She was instrumental in growing the business to become, at the time of sale to Randstad in 2008, the largest privately owned recruiter in the field of financial services. 

Welcome to the next edition of The Recruitment Finance Podcast. In this episode we will be discussing 'Opening International Offices'. We are joined by David Annable, Founder and Director of Franklin Fitch, an international recruitment business specialising in IT Infrastructure, John Rose, former CEO of Hudson and FiveTen Group who is now a non - exec director who sits on the board of many recruitment companies. This episode addresses the markets and geographic locations that have fared better than others during the Covid-19 outbreak, in particular markets like Germany which opened up quicker as the impact of Covid was less severe. We also discuss that as Brexit is fast approaching, opening up international offices could help mitigate the risks associated with Brexit.

In our third episode of The Recruitment Finance Podcast, we address Management Reporting within the Recruitment sector. Poonam is joined by Scott Parsons, Founder and Director of Forsyth Barnes, an International Search Consultancy who discusses the crucial information he looks for when going through Management Reporting. He also speaks about how he set about creating his business (funding, gap in the market, sourcing the right people etc) and how he's  expanded, more specifically to New York.

Our second episode of The Recruitment Finance Podcast addresses the need for investment in technology within support services. Joining Poonam in this episode is Adil Mawani, Director at Azuki Accounts who will speak in detail about best practices when automating within support services in order to maximise efficiencies.

The first episode of The Finance Recruitment Podcast, hosted by Azuki Accounts, focuses on one of the hottest topics affecting many recruitment businesses: Bringing Staff Back from Furlough. Business owners need to decide whether to bring staff back part-time, full-time or to keep them furloughed. Joining Poonam to discuss this in greater detail are, Alex Arnot (a Non Exec who sits on the board of 35 recruitment companies), Adrian O’Connor (the founder of Global Accounting Network, a recruitment agency specialising in the placement of accounting and finance professionals), and Chris Wimshurst (COO of Phoenix Human Capital Management, a HR technology business specialising in digital competency based assessment)