HW Finance, as the new business will be known, will be led by a team of four who have joined from the Leeds office of Marks Sattin, which they built from a start-up 14 years ago. Rafi Davies, Ross Broad, David Clamp and Ryan Johnson between them have more than 60 years’ experience in the recruitment sector. They will be based in Leeds and cover the whole of the North and the Midlands, with plans to expand nationally.

HW Finance will provide a professional talent acquisition service for ‘emerging leader’ roles with a salary level of up to £120k across all areas of finance including tax, treasury and audit. It will complement HW People, which focuses on ‘emerging leaders’ in disciplines other than finance, and HW Global, which focuses on C-suite appointments in the UK and internationally. It also has HW Global Interim Solutions, which matches interim and change management executives with plcs, large private companies, SMEs and private equity-backed organisations in the UK and globally.

HW Group, which has offices in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester, was founded in 2006 by Adrian Hitchenor and John Wakeford. According to the company, the group has doubled revenue in the last three years to more than £30m and employs over 80 people.

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L-r: Ross Broad, David Clamp, Rafi Davies and Ryan Johnson