Strong leadership, good team spirit and highly motivated staff are found behind the balance sheets at Deloitte. The tax and auditing firm, which recorded pre-tax profits of £418.5m last year, has more than 9,700 staff in the UK who say they love working for the business, giving it a 64% positive score.

Our survey shows high levels of pride and job satisfaction in Deloitte’s 23 offices — employees are proud to work for the organisation (76% positive) and find their job stimulating (72%).

Deloitte spends about £12m a year on developing its employees and has a dedicated team of trainers who can help staff choose from more than 4,500 e-learning courses and 500 classroom options. Every staff member has a career development adviser and the opportunity to learn never stops, whether it’s through self-directed education, international secondments or formal programmes.

Deloitte’s 100 leadership partners are paired with a more junior member of staff, whom they meet every couple of months. It seems to work; employees say their job is good for their own personal growth (78%, the second highest score).

Workers here also know they can rely on their colleagues, the 80% positive score for saying they have confidence in their workmates’ abilities again bettered just once elsewhere. Community spirit is strong, with thousands of staff taking part each year in quiz nights, race nights, fun runs and bike rides to raise money for good causes, and each year giving 15,000 hours of professional time to the community.

Deloitte is also one of the top 20 payroll giving companies in Britain, with more than 2,000 employees participating in its “give as you earn” scheme and donating more than £500,000 to charity each year.

The company listens to its staff and acts on the results of its annual survey, prompting the enhancement of a number of benefits recently. These include stakeholder pensions, 25 days’ holiday, season ticket loans and paid professional subscriptions for all employees.

Flexible working policies enable staff with more than six months’ service to request to go part-time, while expectant mothers can ask for a reduction of up to two working hours per day from 15 weeks before their baby is due. Staff, who can earn quarterly bonuses of up to £2,500 for outstanding work, can also take unpaid career breaks for up to two years.

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