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New EY partner Emma Hawthorne on her ‘duty of care’ to clients

4 days ago | afr.com | Edmund Tadros

Emma Hawthorne felt a sense of relief and pride upon becoming a partner at EY Oceania after 22 years at the firm. She also knew that promotion into the ownership ranks would also serve as a useful signal of her authority. “I would hope that [being a partner] doesn’t make that much of a difference,” Hawthorne, who also is the consulting major’s regional energy leader, said.
PwC Australia still shrinking but more slowly with 17pc profit slump, audited results show

1 week ago | afr.com | Edmund Tadros

PwC Australia’s profit slumped 17 per cent to $619 million in the year to December 2024, according to the first ever audited accounts of the local big four firms. The accounts, published on Friday, show that revenues contracted six per cent to $2.17 billion. The firm’s 628 partners, who receive the profits of the firm and pay tax as individuals, earned an average of $767,000 in income, up slightly from the firm’s most recent disclosure. Loading...
KPMG appoints 67 new partners, while almost 90 head for the exit

1 week ago | afr.com | Edmund Tadros

KPMG Australia has appointed 67 new partners, mostly in the firm’s consulting and middle-market division, partially offsetting the exit of almost 90 partners during the past year. The appointments mean that KPMG’s local partnership is projected to be 657-strong as of July 1, down from 676 as of last July. The 13 per cent partner turnover is slightly below that of rival Deloitte Australia, highlighting the extent of the ongoing downturn in the advisory market for the big four consulting firms.
The three phone calls Gee made after becoming a new Deloitte partner

1 week ago | afr.com | Edmund Tadros

Gayathiri “Gee” Balachandra made three calls when she was told last month that she had been made partner at Deloitte. “One call was to Mum and Dad, who were looking after my one-year-old, Zara,” she said. “We did a video call. Mum and Dad were emotional, Zara was just happy to see me. Then I called my husband and then my brother.”Loading...
Big four culture makes partner hires unattractive: RSM chief executive

2 months ago | afr.com | Edmund Tadros

Apr 8, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Mid-tier accounting firm RSM Australia will not join its rivals in picking off partners from the struggling big four firms as it believes the competitive workplace culture fostered at the top four could damage its carefully curated ethos.
EY proposes massive restructure, cutting divisions in bid to find growth

Mar 26, 2025 | afr.com | Lap Phan |Edmund Tadros |Maxim Shanahan

Mar 26, 2025 – 4.45pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? EY will make sweeping changes to its global structure to cut costs and address stagnant growth, slashing the number of regional divisions and ending the independence of its financial services arm.
PwC, AMP deliver $60m tech project on time by ‘adopt not adapt’ approach

Mar 25, 2025 | afr.com | Lap Phan |Edmund Tadros

Mar 25, 2025 – 3.17pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? PwC tech consultants achieved the rare feat of delivering a $60 million tech project on time and on budget by resisting the urge to overly customise the banking system being installed.
Former EY partner Jason McLean moves to PwC

Mar 11, 2025 | afr.com | Edmund Tadros

Mar 11, 2025 – 3.58pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Big four consulting firm PwC has brought on veteran EY partner Jason McLean as part of a push to beef up its financial services advisory offering. McLean has been an EY financial services advisory partner for more than 16 years and formerly worked at tech consulting firm Capgemini. Loading...
Post-leaks, PwC Australia to look beyond profit to measure partner performance

Mar 11, 2025 | afr.com | Edmund Tadros

Mar 11, 2025 – 3.45pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? PwC Australia partners are now judged on a broader range of measures beyond billings, a back-to-the-future change that is part of a suite of reforms at the firm that its inaugural independent chairman says is designed to prevent a repeat of the firm’s tax leaks scandal.
A senior executive at the law firm was the subject of three staff complaints and was sent for retraining

Mar 8, 2025 | afr.com | Edmund Tadros

Mar 9, 2025 – 11.55am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Three current and former Slater and Gordon staff complained about the working style of a senior executive during 2024, leading the law firm to spend tens of thousands of dollars on improving the leader’s management skills. At least one of the complainants has since left the firm.