Better for our people

We are retaining talented minority ethnic people

We have applied the learning from our Retaining Talented Women programme to support the retention and progression of people from ethnic minorities. Lack of role models is a real issue here. So is the perceived tendency of managers to promote people “in their own image”. Only 4% of partners are from minority ethnic backgrounds – a high figure for the profession, but we want to do better. We are already making excellent progress in graduate recruitment, where 30% of recruits are from minority ethnic backgrounds.

Accountant of the Year: Catherine Burnet

Accountancy Age ‘Accountant of the Year 2007’ Catherine Burnet juggles a high–pressure job as the leader of the HBOS Group Audit team with a busy family life.”

20%

increase in profit for the 2007 financial year to £447 million