Deloitte Records Double-Digit Growth For The 5th Consecutive Year

Consulting firms have been on the rise in recent times, with the increase in demand of the advisory business by most of the sectors. Few of the renowned consulting firms globally are Accenture Consulting, Capgemini Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory, Ernst & Young Advisory and McKinsey & Company.

The Big 4 (Source: Company Website)

Another player in this sector is Deloitte, which had dropped in an update on 26 June 2019, that its Australian domain has reported revenue growth of 13 per cent over the last fiscal year (2018).

Let us dig in and look at the company’s highlights from the Deloitte Australia FY19 report:

Company Profile:

Deloitte provides economics related, audit, human capital, tax, technology and financial advisory services to its clients across the globe.

The company’s history in Australia dates to the 19^th century in 1891, when the firm was originally established by Yarwood Vane and Co. and was regarded as a significant entrepreneurial business. After a century, driven by mergers, the firm commenced its operations under the name of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

Presently (and since 2006), the company is known as Deloitte Australia. The company has approximately 790 partners and over 8000 people who work in 14 offices across Australia, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea. Acquisitions and alliances are a routine process for the company and its Australian headquarter is in Sydney.

Last year, in 2018, the company had recorded a revenue of A$2.013 billion, which was a 15 per cent rise compared to its prior corresponding period (FY17). This also marked the fourth consecutive year of a 15 per cent revenue growth.

Deloitte’s Report for the financial year ending 31 May 2019

The company has maintained its double-digit revenue gains ongoing, and reported a revenue of $2.3 billion for FY19, which is up by 13 per cent on the prior corresponding period (FY18). This marks the fifth consecutive year of a double-digit growth in the company’s revenue. The company attained great results particularly from the Victorian and New South Wales markets, while other regions also contributed to the same.

CEO Richard Deutsch, who joined the company last year in September, stated that the strong performance of the company was majorly driven by the increase in demand of the company’s advisory business, which has been a common phenomenon for the big four consulting firms (KPMG, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers).

The company’s audit business has continued to pace up over the years, driving consecutive double-digit growths. The company has significant transformation programmes, which run on a digital front and are technologically advanced and cloud based. The company’s growth has been sturdy in the field of cognitive automation, systems architecture, risk analytics, cyber businesses and robotic capabilities.

In times of the Financial Services Royal Commission, the company has great leverage over the demand generated for its remediation businesses. At the beginning of this year, the initial months of the federal election did have an adverse impact on the business. However, this eventually got better in building the confidence of the business community, as a whole.

Company’s Milestones in FY19:

In FY19, the company was successful in conducting eight strategic investments through transactions. This depicts that Deloitte Australia in on track in tapping the right clientele and surging its strategy of inorganic growth.

Besides this, the company announced that it would introduce its 67 new partners, the term of which is effective from 1 July 2019. The company also has 72 lateral partners on board, in FY19. Across Australia, the company would be promoting 30 women and 37 men. It should be noted that, in its history of existence, the company witnessed a 45 per cent representation of new female partners, which is a significant milestone, promoting a professional inclusive environment. Post these additions, the partner number of the company would count to 880, with promotions in each business unit and market.

The company set another record of hiring 862 graduates in FY19, to become a firm with its staff count crossing 10,000, which is double than the number it was at, 5 years ago.

Deloitte’s Acquisitions:

During the year, the company added the following businesses into its kitty, expanding its business base:

• The Terrace Initiative- which is a boutique consulting firm, which has developed a tool to aid in tracing change issues in the transport and mining industries, using a digital portal. The firm officially became part of the company in May this year and its revenue was anticipated to be around $12.5 million.
• KnowledgeSpace- a player in the speech analytics business that has software which identifies and further scrutinizes the speech of workers in call centres. The business would support Deloitte’s assurance and advisory business.

Few other company acquisitions include JKVine, CBIG Consulting APAC, Well Placed Cactus and Nesoi Solutions.

The inclusion of these small business into its realm depicts that the company is focussing on conducting a large chunk of its advisory business in the traditional auditing and assurance work.

Rewards and Recognition:

2019 was truly a year of achievements for Deloitte Australia, as apart from the notable milestones mentioned above, the company was rewarded with the following accolades:

• It was amongst the Top 10 companies in the Financial Review Most Innovative Companies awards.
• 2019 Top 100 Graduate Employer.
• WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality- the company’s 16th consecutive win.
• Recognition for extending the support to the Uluru Statement.

Deloitte Australia anticipates continuous growth in Australia and the Asia Pacific. The formation of Deloitte Asia Pacific aims to serve clients across the Asia Pacific region and deliver solutions to the complex and transformational issues, amongst the clientele in the region.

Deloitte’s Building the Lucky Country:

An Australian initiative, the company’s Building the Lucky Country series was developed to stir conversations and discussions across the media, government, business and industry associations, related to the Australian economy.

Let’s look at one such discussion and its inference, as per the report:

The Future of Work-The report states that the future of work has a very human face, which means that people, along with their unique interpersonal and creative skills are the future of business. Economists have mentioned that technology has truly been the driving change in various work methodologies and styles, but it still cannot be a prompt and apt substitute for people.

A study reports that unemployment is close to its record low across the globe and Australia is significantly impacted, with the present measure being the lowest since 2011. As per an expert, using technology to create more potent jobs bears the potential to aggravate the country’s national income in terms of GDP by approximately $36 billion in a single year. The report unveiled three myths that revolve around this discussion of the future of work:

• Robots would take the jobs.
• People will have lots of jobs over their careers.
• People preferring to work at any place but not the office.

In May 2019, the company conducted a survey on What Aussie millennials and Gen Z were really thinking and laid down the Top 5 millennial ambitions, as depicted in the image under:

Top 5 Millennial Ambitions (Source: Company’s Report)

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