Joslin Rowe & Martin Ward Anderson Signal Intent in Professional Recruitment Space

Joslin Rowe, the financial services recruitment specialists and Martin Ward Anderson, the accountancy & finance experts are joining forces to create a market leading recruitment offering for professional staffing.

The two Randstad sister companies, who had already been working closely together for some time, have recently launched a more formal proposition. Combined, the two firms will employ 212 staff across 15 offices in the UK and overseas. Martin Ward Anderson will continue to specialise in the horizontal market of accountancy & finance, Joslin Rowe in the vertical market of financial services. Together both firms will be positioning themselves as the aspirational choice for professionals serious about their careers.

Tara Ricks, who will lead the new company as managing director, believes the two firms will be far stronger together:  "This union makes sense. Both firms had already been reaping the rewards of sharing market intelligence, supplier contracts and back office support since 2008. Looking ahead to the next decade, the driver behind our official combination is to create a professional recruitment offering which can deliver far more than our competitors. Our mutual strengths, specialist knowledge and above all talented staff will ensure we have the platform to achieve more together and exceed our clients' and candidates' requirements."

"In an arena that has rapidly become saturated by job board sourcing, recruitment consultancies need, to some extent, to go back to recruitment 101 and attract a pool of niche candidates that can't be found anywhere else. Our ultimate vision is to be the aspirational choice of recruitment consultancy amongst professionals, from bankers to accountants, who are serious about their career choices and want to register with a true specialist."