error
Subscriptions are not available for this site while you are logged into your current account.
close
Skip to main content
Submit RFP

      Message from our
      Managing Partner

      I am delighted to provide an update on our business in the 2024 KPMG Transparency Report. Maintaining the quality of our audit and assurance engagements is a top priority at KPMG with a commitment across our organisation to serve our clients, stakeholders and the public with the highest professional excellence, ethics and integrity.

      Our clients continue to navigate increasing levels of complexity every day. This is a volatile moment in history, making forward planning more difficult and requiring strong leadership. Business leaders today face a range of complex challenges integrating new technology, while managing a shifting geopolitical landscape, economic uncertainty and the climate crisis.

      Our clients and stakeholders know that they can trust us to help them navigate these complexities as their needs evolve.

      Seamus Hand

      Seamus Hand, Managing Partner, KPMG in Ireland

      Our people & future of work

      We are business-led and resourced by people, and our long-term success is dependent on attracting, rewarding and investing in the best people to ensure we provide the highest quality support to our clients and stakeholders.

      In 2024 we welcomed 661 talented people to the team. These new team members received the latest training and mentoring to ensure they have the competencies, capabilities and objectivity to appropriately fulfil their role at KPMG.

      The way in which people work continues to evolve and our focus is on ensuring that our people get the very best experience working for KPMG and in turn that they can bring their best selves to support success for our clients.

      Within our own business we are at a very exciting, once in a generation milestone for our business – in 2026 we will move all our Dublin-based teams to our brand-new state of the art headquarters on Harcourt Street. An exciting project with a market leading premises which meets the highest standards and the needs of tomorrow’s workforce.

      661
      new joiners in 2024

      Our investments

      Over the last 12 months we have seen Generative AI moving from a concept discussed at leadership tables, to technology that is now embedded into our everyday processes, and it continues to evolve at pace. We have invested heavily in our technology blueprint to ensure we stay ahead of the curve.

      Today our clients are focused on areas such as responsible AI, how to balance regulation and innovation and how to manage and secure data integrity throughout their organisations. We are strengthening the capabilities of our people by equipping them with the latest technology to help deliver seamless services with real-time visibility.

      Go to page

      Outlining our commitment to our regulators, investors, audit committees & other stakeholders
      Go to page

      Audit at the core

      Our audit business is always at the core of our firm. Backed by an ongoing investment programme, we’re dedicated to a mindset of continuous improvement in audit. Aligned with regulatory requirements, we are operating a robust quality management system that is enabling stronger accountability, greater transparency and continued progress.

      Audit quality remains the highest priority at KPMG to ensure we maintain public trust. We understand the magnitude of our responsibility to all our stakeholders including our clients, the regulators and investors so we take great pride in our relentless focus on quality which you will hear more about from Emer McGrath, our Head of Audit in section 2.

      Providing independant, quality financial statement audits & accounting strategies

      Audit

      Continued ambition

      On 1 May 2025, I will pass over responsibility for leading our firm to my successor Ryan McCarthy. Ryan is an experienced Audit Partner and has led our commercial and industrial markets audit business for the last 6 years. He has been a member of our Audit Leadership Team and also led the establishment of our Board Leadership Centre, a forum developed to support non-executive directors in exploring critical boardroom challenges and driving board agendas. Ryan has nearly thirty years of experience supporting many of Ireland’s leading listed and private companies.

      Under Ryan’s leadership and with the support of our fellow partners and colleagues, I am certain that KPMG in Ireland will be ambitious to continue as a market leading firm, helping our clients solve complex challenges, embracing change and providing rewarding and exciting careers for our people. I wish Ryan and his leadership team every success in achieving this ambition.

      I trust that the information provided in this Transparency Report demonstrates that maintaining our focus on quality is critical to our business as well as recognising our important public interest responsibilities.

      Seamus Hand
      Managing Partner
      30 April 2025

      Seamus Hand
      Seamus Hand

      Partner

      KPMG in Ireland

      Download our reports

      Read our previous transparency and related reports.

      PDF

      Transparency Report 2024

      Download PDF, 5.6MB

      Previous reports

      Statement of effectiveness

      Related content

      Read more about KPMG in Ireland.

      At the heart of business in Ireland
      Read more

      At KPMG we believe in the power of people to do great things
      Read more

      Executive team, policy committee, audit executive team, and public interest committee

      Read more