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据英国《金融时报》报道，德勤(Deloitte)对其全球业务启动了10年来最大规模的重组，以削减成本，降低组织的复杂性。该重组由德勤全球首席执行官Joe Ucuzoglu领导，将花费一年时间在150多个国家的德勤成员机构实施。
根据该计划，德勤的主要业务部门将从2014年以来的五个部门削减为四个，咨询业务将从四个部门缩减为三个部门，审计和鉴证部门、税务和法律业务将继续作为一个独立的部门。重组之后的四个部门依次是：审计与鉴证；战略、风险与交易；技术与转型；税务与法律。
为了消除各自为政的现象，从事环境、社会和治理工作的一些人员将被调到扩大的审计和鉴证部门。
德勤拒绝就重组是否涉及裁员置评。
据一位前合伙人表示，此次重组主要影响的是合伙人，有合伙人将被从管理岗位上撤下来。
请看详细报道：
Deloitte has launched the biggest overhaul of its global operations in a decade as the Big Four firm seeks to cut costs and reduce the organisation’s complexity in the face of an expected market slowdown.
Under the plan, Deloitte’s main business units will be cut to four — audit and assurance; strategy, risk and transactions; technology and transformation; and tax and legal — from the five the firm has had since 2014.
The reorganisation will reduce costs across the firm, said one person familiar with the plan, but added that a figure had not yet been put on the savings.
Deloitte declined to comment on whether the reorganisation will involve job cuts.
One former partner said: “This is not about the junior grades. The biggest effect will be felt at partner level. Partners will be taken out of management positions.”
Deloitte’s global chief executive Joe Ucuzoglu is spearheading the shake-up that will take a year to implement across the more than 150 countries the firm operates in.
In an email sent to Deloitte’s partners on Monday, Ucuzoglu said the plan would reduce the firm’s “complexity” and “free up” more of them to work with clients rather than manage staff internally. Deloitte employs about 455,000 people globally.
Deloitte’s global revenues increased 15 per cent to $65bn in its last financial year, cementing its position as the largest of the Big Four. But after several years of rapid growth, Deloitte, EY, PwC and KPMG are braced for a tougher 12 months as a difficult economic backdrop in key markets prompts companies to cut spending.
The UK consulting market will fail to grow this year for the first time since 2020, according to a new report, which includes input from the Big Four.
The move by Ucuzoglu comes after he last year rejected the possibility of separating its audit and consulting businesses and publicly dismissed the logic of doing so. Rival EY spent more than a year trying to engineer a break-up of the firm before abandoning the attempt in April last year.
In contrast to a typical multinational company, the Big Four are run as a worldwide network of partnerships linked through a global entity that sets the strategy. The global business is funded by fees paid by the local member firms.
The complex structure can make reorganisations fraught with difficulty as partners compete for influence. The reorganisation was “a fairly divisive topic internally”, said one former Deloitte partner.
As part of the changes, Deloitte’s advisory businesses, which advise companies on everything from technology to dealmaking and also includes its tax and legal unit, will be cut to three divisions from four. Its audit and assurance arm will remain as a standalone unit.
Deloitte’s consulting, financial advisory and risk advisory divisions will be brought into two newly created business units: strategy, risk and transactions; and technology and transformation.
The former will house Deloitte’s mergers and acquisitions advisory services that has struggled amid a drought in dealmaking. The technology and transformation unit will bring together its “digital transformation” services, including engineering, artificial intelligence, data and cyber, according to the email to partners, a copy of which was seen by the Financial Times.
In an attempt to eliminate silos, some staff will be transferred to an expanded audit and assurance arm, including those working on environmental, social and governance.
Tax and legal will remain a standalone business within the new structure as Deloitte tries to wring benefits from the decision to keep its audit and consulting businesses together.
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