KPMG added 18 new consulting partners over 2025 financial year

18 June 2025 Consultancy.com.au

Big Four professional services firm KPMG has made 70 partnership appointments for its 2025 financial year, including 47 internal promotions and 18 additions within its consulting division.

Despite generalist consultants having been the focus of job cuts across the Big Four in recent times, the 18 new Consulting partners were the most of any division, slightly shading the 17 new additions in KPMG’s mid-market and private 'Enterprise' business.

Meanwhile, the firm’s Audit & Assurance and Tax & Legal practices have each welcomed 11 new partners, with eight joining the Deal Advisory & Infrastructure team. All up, KPMG’s local partnership headcount stands at around 650, down by roughly 20 on last year.

“I’m incredibly proud to announce the appointment of this year’s partners who come from a broad range of backgrounds to support our clients,” stated KPMG Australia chief executive Andrew Yates. “All divisions of our firm appointed new partners, and in this year’s unpredictable environment, the benefits of a diverse business and diverse talent come to the fore.”

In respect to the senior leadership boost within KPMG’s consulting division, Yates noted that the recruits and promotions were primarily down to an expansion of the firm’s technology and transformation capabilities, while further revealing that the increase in Enterprise partner numbers had been driven by the division’s double-digit growth.

Regional split

As to geography, Sydney witnessed the bulk of the intake, welcoming 30 new partners, followed by Melbourne with 13. Perth and Brisbane were next, with just under ten apiece, followed by Canberra with five, including via last year’s acquisition of Chartertech. Outside of the state capitals, one new partner was added in each of Newcastle, Parramatta, and the Gold Coast.

Elsewhere, the firm noted that 46 percent of the new partners were women, while slightly over a quarter identified as culturally diverse. Overall, Yates expressed his satisfaction as to the proportion of internal promotions among the 2025 partner class, as a reflection of the firm’s “focus on leadership development and building career paths.”

The majority of those listed among the latest consulting partnership cohort were promoted at the beginning of the year, with the division also accounting for a fair chunk of the 20-odd partners to have joined the firm over the past twelve months, including high-profile recruits Michael Gunner, ex-NT chief minister, and former Labor minister David Bradbury.

More recent recruits include Olivia Willee, who joined KPMG’s technology consulting division in Melbourne in March after two decades between Ernst & Young and IBM Consulting, and Harry Cooper, who crossed from Scyne Advisory around the same time as a digital strategy & transformation partner in Adelaide after also previously working at PwC and Accenture.

Facing a continued decline in its ‘legacy’ management consulting revenues, KPMG last year announced it would strategically tilt the division’s focus towards tech advisory and digital solutions, with around 200 jobs in the firing line at the time. Meanwhile, the firm’s latest consultancy partnership intake is double that of the previous financial period.