As a responsible business, we strive to have a positive impact on the communities we operate in and serve. This includes making employment opportunities accessible and attractive to all, and providing a stimulating, diverse and inclusive workplace and culture. We offer fair, equal, and unbiased recruitment, promotion, and reward systems, as well as a safe, inclusive, and agile work environment where talent can thrive.
Our people undertake varied and fulfilling accountancy and advisory work for a wide range of local, national, and international clients. We promote a vibrant and agile one-firm culture, where career and professional development opportunities run alongside wellbeing support, excellent communication, valued employee benefits and a quality of life. These are attributes that set us apart.
Health & Wellbeing
Our overall ambition is to create an environment where all individuals can bring their best selves to work, building the right culture to enable people to find a healthy work-life balance.
Using feedback from the BITC Tracker benchmark exercise, a specific H&W survey, a weekly Pulse survey, and the recent Great Place to Work® survey, our Health & Wellbeing teams have continued to focus their efforts around four core wellbeing pillars – Mental, Physical, Financial and Social.
Inclusion & Diversity
Promoting inclusion and diversity is a fundamental aspect of our values and business strategy at Bishop Fleming. We believe that diverse perspectives fuel innovation and drive positive change. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values inclusion, diversity, equality, and equity and recognise that we have 500 people who are completely different, with each one bringing something unique to the collective mix.
View our Diversity Report by clicking here.
Gender parity and greater diversity within the workplace are important for society as a whole and as a responsible business, gender pay gap reporting is a significant element of our transparency. Whilst we have an almost equal number of men to women, we understand our gender pay gaps are caused by an underrepresentation of women at senior levels and we are actively working to address this.
View our 2022 Gender Pay Report by clicking here.
Employment & Skills
Our business has a strong ethos in employee engagement. The firm was ranked in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work For lists for five consecutive years until 2020, and then in 2021, was placed in the Best Companies Top Five Best Accounting Firms to Work For in the UK.
In 2022, we were proud to have won the Accounting Excellence Award for Investing in People, and in 2023 were certified as a Great Place to Work® under the Best Workplaces Programme.
Since 2020 the firm has proudly held the status of ‘Partner in Learning’ with the ICAEW. To achieve this status, the ICAEW have recognised the learning that is offered throughout our apprenticeship programme to complement the ACA qualification and work-based learning. In addition, we hold ‘Platinum’ status for training and development with the ACCA. We are one of very few accountancy firms that has taken this step of becoming an employer-provider and have been recognised in our ranking of 14th in the 2022 Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers in the UK and 40th in 2023.
We have recently welcomed another record cohort of 69 new apprentice trainees with almost 40% of them joining us straight from school – our highest school leaver intake to date.
