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Deloitte has announced that it has promoted 81 people to the position of partner in the UK.
Of the new promotions, 27 (33%) are women, increasing the total number of Deloitte’s female partners to 412 (30% of partners).
This year’s promotions include 19 new partners from ethnic minority backgrounds, equating to 23% of the promotions.
This has raised the overall figure of partners from an ethnic minority background to 12% (164 partners).
As a result the firm has stated that it has reached its targets on gender and ethnicity a year early.
The firm’s audit and assurance business has promoted 27 new partners, alongside 18 in consulting, 27 in tax and legal, and 9 in financial advisory.
As a consequence of this the number of UK partners overall now stands at 1,369.
Deloitte also recruited 36 new external hires at partner level in the UK during the financial year from June 2023 to the end of May 2024.
Jackie Henry, managing partner, people and purpose at Deloitte UK, said: “I’m pleased to see that the number of women and ethnic minority partners in our firm continues to increase, which means that we have met our women and ethnic minority partner targets for 2025 a year early. It’s encouraging to see the progress made following the introduction of targeted interventions like our Future Leaders Programme, which aims to improve the representation of women and underrepresented ethnic groups at all levels of our firm.
“However, we fully accept that we still have more work to do to achieve our Black partner target of 3% by 2025, which currently stands at 1%. We are working hard on building our pipeline of Black partner candidates and expect to make greater progress in the coming year.”
Richard Houston, senior partner and chief executive of Deloitte UK and Deloitte North South Europe (NSE), added: “Today we celebrate and congratulate our new partners alongside all our colleagues who have also been promoted.
“Given the uncertainty in the economic and geopolitical landscape, I’m pleased that we’ve been able to continue investing in our business, with nearly a third of our people being promoted.”
