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FOSTERING A WORKFORCE OF POSITIVITY AND PRIDE
AFP Services is a Northamptonshire-based outsourcing company, run by a group of finance professionals. It has been offering financial management, supply
chain administration, and bookkeeping to all types of businesses, from Southampton to the Scottish Highlands, for 15 years. In 2002, it employed just two people, but since then its
workforce has steadily increased and, in 2016 and 2017, it really focused on growth as its main driving force. It focused on recruitment due to expansion into new
areas of business, such as supply chain administration, and bolstering its financial accounts and management accounts teams which have taken on new clients. The firm’s culture is friendly, respectful, open, mature
and knowledgeable and it actively seeks out these qualities in potential recruits. The firm’s new assistant supply chain manager
Syeda Rahman said: “AFP stood out due to the variety the role offers me, not only because of the range of clients they work with, but also the number of functions they offer. “One of the biggest things for me is the
people I work with. I read an interview our MD had done in which he said ‘each day I look around the office and I count how many of our staff are smiling,’ and that really resonated with me.” The employees strive to produce works
‘THE
EMPLOYEES STRIVE TO
of quality, to have pride and integrity in what they do, to appreciate the lives of clients and colleagues, to take responsibility for their actions and to always seek improvement.
PRODUCE WORKS OF QUALITY, TO HAVE PRIDE AND INTEGRITY IN WHAT THEY DO’
Richard Peel, Managing Director of AFP Services
TAKING THE STEPS TO DEVELOP STAFF
A family-owned children’s day nursery has received an award for being a good employer. Footsteps Daycare in St
Peter’s Way, Northampton, has been presented with an award from learndirect in recognition of its efforts to develop its staff through apprenticeship awards. In the past two years alone
the nursery has helped more than 20 apprentices to progress their Early Years careers. Footsteps Daycare nursery manager Theresa Rock said: “Apprenticeship awards give everyone an opportunity to excel and to do well within a business. Not only those who have performed very well academically but also others who may have struggled within a classroom setting. “We are thrilled to have
received this award from learndirect because it recognises our efforts to be a good employer.” The nursery cares for children
aged from three months old to five years. Each age group has its own room and dedicated team.
Call: 01604 239188
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