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ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
FINANCIAL RECRUITMENT IS NO NUMBERS GAME
For 20 years specialist financial and accountancy recruitment agency AFR Consulting has delivered its services with one strong message to its clients: ‘Numbers are your life, people are ours’.
Over that time the Lancashire based business has adapted to survive economic downturns, the credit crunch and a pandemic and throughout it all has continued to service those clients in its own unique way.
There have also been many highs along the way, include launching the prestigious North West Finance Awards in 2010 and developing a strong networking community for finance directors across Lancashire.
Since launching in 2004, AFR Consulting has
developed into one of the most established financial recruitment companies for the business and accountancy community across Lancashire and north Manchester.
And it puts that success down to the director- led service it provides candidates and clients which is both personal and professional, with the emphasis on quality rather than quantity.
Over the past two decades AFR estimates it has placed more than 3,000 candidates into a wide variety of roles, and has arranged over 8,000 interviews with clients along the way.
Today the business is run by two co-directors. Simon Speak is one of the original founders of AFR and Tammy Smith has been a director with the organisation since 2008, though they can
trace back their working relationship together over more than two decades.
Simon, 50, explains that AFR began life to simply fill a gap in the market. He says: “At the time there was no-one outside Manchester catering for the Lancashire market.
“Businesses couldn’t get that local knowledge and expertise from people who really knew the area. We saw that as our sweet spot.”
He adds: “The business developed from that starting point really. Also, we just enjoy doing recruitment.
“We like running the process from start to finish and engaging with candidates and clients, building relationships with them.
Numbers are your life, people are ours
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