15,000 financial services professionals voted for where they would most like to work in our 2025 Ideal Employer report. This year, they voted for an unusually high proportion of consulting, accounting, and advisory firms in the professional services firms sector.
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Among professional services firms, one stood above its peers – Deloitte. Voters in our survey thought that the firm performed particularly well on these qualitative statements:
- This company cares about employees’ mental and physical health. (1% above the global average)
- This company is good for flexible working. (2% above the global average)
Deloitte is the biggest of the already huge Big Four professional services firms. It has 460,000 employees globally, operating within relatively independent national entities in 150 countries. It also has the highest global revenue of its peers, at $67bn.
Although Deloitte was the most aspirational place to work in professional services, it was voted poorly for the novelty of its work, the quality of its workforce, its prestige, and even its leadership.
Second placed, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was perceived better than Deloitte in many of these areas. Boston Consulting was considered by voters to pay well, and to have excellent leadership. BCG is much smaller than Deloitte, and has just 33,000 employees across 100 cities in 50 countries.
McKinsey & Co. rounded out the professional services podium. Much like BCG, McKinsey & Co was perceived favourably in terms of the qualitative statements and ranked highly for the quality of its compensation and workforce. McKinsey & Co. and BCG, together with Bain, together form MBB – the biggest and most prestigious management consultancies in the world.
Professional services firms as a group performed well within our top ten list of Ideal Employers this year. Six of the top ten ideal employers in finance were professional services firms, and the spearhead – Deloitte – very nearly dethroned JPMorgan as the industry’s most desired employer. It got closer this year than any other employer has since we rebooted the Ideal Employer report in 2023.
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