Girls' Day School Trust Recruitment Case Study
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Testimonial: "At The Girls' Day School Trust, we employed Harcourt Matthews as one of two recruiters to hire a Financial Planning Analyst and a Procurement Manager in 2009 and 2010. Both roles were newly created. In respect of both tasks, Guy was successful in providing the winning candidates. The extra you get with Guy is that he takes the trouble to understand the structure and culture of the organisation and he is prepared to ask robust questions that lead to highly valuable thinking. His contribution was valuable, his fees were good value and the service was prompt. |
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| The Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) is the largest group of independent schools in the UK, with 4,000 staff and over 20,000 students between the ages of three and 18. As a charity, they own and run a family of 29 schools in England and Wales, and reinvest all their income into their schools for the benefit of the pupils. With a long history of pioneering an innovative education for girls, the GDST now also educates boys aged three to seven in some of its all-through schools. The Trust also has to co-educational Sixth Form colleges and is developing a selective group of preparatory schools, some of which are co-educational. As a major player within education in the UK, GDST has an outstanding track record in helping students achieve their full potential in every aspect of their lives. | ||||
As a result of our relationship with the acting interim FD, who had been both a candidate and client previously, our MD discussed forthcoming recruitment plans, existing commercial finance processes & systems, their transformation and the people required to enable this to happen. |
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| After an introductory meeting with the FD and FC to review existing and new finance department organisation structures, we identified the need to leverage higher calibre and quality of head office and commercial accounting & finance staff, in particular introducing Business Finance Partners, better planning & analysis and improved financial reporting functions, where the Commercial FD sought to develop his team based at London Head Office & UK wide supporting the schools. Additionally, other non finance work including procurement, which resides under the Commercial FD, has complemented our success with the organisation. | ||||
Our key objectives of this recruitment were:
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We established several recruitment and candidate sourcing processes for interim, temporary and permanent employees encompassing:
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| The successful recruitment of qualified part qualified accounting & finance and Procurement & Purchasing staff resulted in our inclusion onto the preferred supplier list for the UK business. We have also been asked to support other functional disciplines including Procurement, Operations and Systems Project Management. | ||||
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