Trio on a mission to raise standards within the recruitment industry.

Three Yorkshire finance recruiters have joined forces to create a new venture focusing on recruitment within the region’s accountancy and finance market.

Joe Ingham, Rachel Frankland and Javed Bobat, who collectively have over 50 years of experience as accountancy and finance recruiters, have this week launched IFF Talent.

The firm has ambitious growth plans and is in advanced talks to secure significant investment, with plans to bolster its team through key hires.

Its founders intend to develop a coaching and mentoring cohort to support personal and professional development throughout a finance professional’s career journey.

And the trio have committed to supporting a “social pillar” close to each of their hearts by pledging a percentage of each recruitment fee into their own dedicated non-profit fund.

Ingham has spent over a decade as a senior finance recruiter across corporate, independent, boutique, and new office start-ups. Most recently, he was a partner at regional recruitment firm Pratap Partnership.

His social pillar is social mobility, which he will champion within the industry to support the next generation of professionals entering the market.

He said: “IFF Talent will be looking at ways we can further educate ourselves around the importance of social mobility, especially in the current labour market, in addition to adding our support to a cause that is very close to my heart.”

Frankland brings 17 years of sector experience, coming from HW Global Group where she most recently launched a new division, HW People aimed at emerging leaders.

She will bring her executive search principles into mid-market and emerging leader finance recruitment.

Her social pillar will focus on empowering women in finance and supporting gender equity.

Frankland said: “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”

Bobat has over 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 he launched FIDE, recruiting within the accountancy and finance market while also offering mental health and well-being training and support services through his non-profit.

FIDE will now represent the F in IFF Talent, and Bobat will continue his work by championing mental health and workplace wellbeing as his social pillar.

He said: “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.”