We take care of our employees

Education and development

Education

• Employee education and growth is a high priority for KPMG Czech Republic. The global KPMG Business School concept incorporates an education scheme that fully corresponds to KPMG requirements and client needs and, at the same time, ensures a high level of quality of courses on offer.

• Under the internal rules of KPMG Czech Republic, all professional employees are required to attend at least 20 hours of continuing professional training a year, while the time spent on training during a three-year period should amount to at least 120 hours.

• In the individual professional departments, the employees’ training structure has been described in training maps.
• The training maps show two categories of technical training courses and certification programmes allocated to individual positions: either mandatory or recommended upon approval by the Performance Manager of the given department.

Deepening expert qualifications

• The introductory training is followed by a structured plan containing local as well as regional KPMG courses and the possibility to participate in specific external training courses.
• KPMG in the Czech Republic supports certifications from the following key entities: ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and the Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic for colleagues from Audit, the Chamber of Tax Advisors for colleagues from Tax Services d, and the Institute of Certified Accountants for accounting professionals..
• Colleagues from advisory departments study e.g. under the certification programmes of ISACA and PRINCE2 aiming to convey project management expertise.

Professional and managerial growth

• The Leadership & Business Academy concept offers a wide range of one-day courses featuring top external lecturers, a series of inspiring half-day workshops and opportunities to meeting fascinating guests from the fields of culture, sports and business called "Meet with...".
• The Leadership & Business Academy also includes a development programme for nominated senior employees and supervisors as well as a managerial growth programme.
• Both development programmes are introduced by an initial development centre; they also comprise an expanded offer of training courses and mentoring and coaching possibilities.
• A key aspect of the offered development programmes is the emphasis on the possibility to develop recommended competencies through active participation in interesting and demanding projects with immediate and regular feedback from more senior colleagues.
• Apart from management and business skill development courses, employees may also attend English, German or Russian language classes as part of the Language Academy, either in regular or in summer courses.
• The command of MS Office can be enhanced at internal Excel, Word and Power Point courses, which are part of the IT Academy.

• In the 2013/2014 financial year, male employees attended an average of 53 hours while female staff participated in 51 hours of training.

• On average, employees in assistant positions attended 42 hours, senior employees 63 hours, managers 51 hours, directors 48 hours and partners 53 hours of training.

Diverse and pleasant workplace

Diversity

• 870 employees work in KPMG Czech Republic, of whom 483 are women and 387 men.
• Currently, 11.5% of the firm’s partners are women and 88.5% are men.
• The Management Committee, the firm's steering body, is made up of 87.5% men, while women are represented by 12.5%.
• The firm has four expatriate partners, one of whom is also a member of the Management Committee.

Number of employees

Office	Women	Men
Brno	49	21
České Budějovice	24	1
Ostrava	15	5
Praha	395	360
Total	483	387

Position	Women	Men
Manager and above	40	100
Other	443	287
Total	483	387

Balanced and flexible working conditions

• We try to meet our employees' work-life balance needs.
• We allow flexible working hours and the possibility of working from home
• We aim to let our employees manage their working hours more flexibly and efficiently while maintaining the high quality of services provided to internal as well as external clients.
• During the holiday season, our employees get three extra days off in addition to their regular vacation days.
• In the long run, we try to have our employees benefit from the balanced and flexible working conditions also when on maternity or parental leave. We stay in regular contact with everyone and try to create favourable conditions that allow them to return to their work. Where the type of work allows it, we give them the possibility to participate in engagements on a part-time basis, even in the case of top management positions.
• Overall, the proportion of part-time jobs in our firm is‭ ‬17%‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬.‬‬‬‬‬‬
• We continue to provide benefits to parents in managerial positions on their parental leaves, allowing them to keep their company cars, mobile phones and laptops. In February 2014, this helped us obtain the Fathers Welcome quality designation, which is awarded to employers who support active fatherhood.

Healthy Company

• Healthy Company is a programme that aims to help employers make employees more interested in and more responsible for their health.
• Working at KPMG in the Czech Republic is fascinating but also demanding, hence we aim to offer above-standard health care and an adequate work-life balance to our employees.
• We focus on education and training in matters of health. Wherever possible, we try to organise preventive medical checks for employees at the workplace to save our employees’ time and energy and so that they have enough of both for their private lives.
• We focus on four areas: the workplace, psychosocial working conditions, one's own health and the firm as part of a wider community.
• The most visible part of the programme includes annual Health Days, yoga and Pilates classes at the workplace.
• Very popular are physiotherapist consultations, 30-minute massages by blind masseurs, dermatological consultations, fitness coaching, nutritional consultations and a number of other activities.

GPS (Global People Survey)

• On a regular basis, we organise a global survey of employee satisfaction, which helps us uncover how employees feel and how they assess the firm.
• A total of 93% of employees completed the questionnaire in 2014.
• Their responses confirmed that we are improving in a number of areas: the evaluation of 91% of all measured factors was more positive than in the previous survey.
• We improved in all areas set out as our priorities in 2012: communication, working environment, performance development and remuneration.
• We received the best results in CSR, Quality and Risk Management, cooperation and knowledge sharing categories.
• We achieved 73% in the employee involvement index.

Benefits

• We provide an array of benefits to employees using a Cafeteria system of optional benefits.
• All employees with the exception of partners are entitled to Cafeteria benefits.
• We do not differentiate based on the type of employment.
• Part-time employees receive a proportionate amount of benefits.

On offer are over 5 000 options including e.g. meal vouchers, educational courses, activities in the fields of travel and tourism, culture, sports, wellness and health care, life assurance and casualty insurance, pension insurance etc.

Employees can also:

• participate in a favourable group life assurance and casualty insurance scheme;
• use their overtime in the form of fully covered compensatory leave or reimbursement under the firm's overtime policy;
• take longer holidays;
• under the mobility programme, leave for short-term (up to 1 year) or long-term (up to 3-5 years) secondments abroad;
• obtain fully covered memberships in professional organisations and chambers;
• make use of a wide-ranging training and development programme, professional certifications, study leaves, language courses, training of interpersonal competencies or technical and computer skills training, offers of vitamins/flu vaccinations;
• take advantage of refreshments provided in kitchenettes on each floor, discounted meal vouchers in the Hilton Hotel, discounted goods and services by certain providers;
• use laptops and internet connections, mobile phones, company cars and garage parking.

As the story begins at KPMG

Launching a career with KPMG in the Czech Republic

• New employees that are recent graduates start their career with a five-week introductory training session.
• The training course particularly focuses on expert audit and tax topics that employees will need in their role as auditor and tax advisor assistants.
• The participants spend one of the five weeks away from the Prague office participating in training and team-building, hence getting the chance to get to know colleagues before beginning to work together.

Graduate Recruitment

• In 2014, nearly 2000 students and graduates applied for a job in our firm. Almost 100 were successful.
• We primarily recruit recent university graduates and students in their last year of university. An economics focus is an advantage.
• Applicants must pass performance and English tests, followed by an assessment centre and interviews.
• Successful applicants primarily start working as assistants in Audit, Tax or Advisory Services.
• We also offer internships designed for fourth and fifth year university students.

We take care of our employees also in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

• We offer them an opportunity for personal growth through CSR activities.
• We motivate them to be personally engaged also in their leisure time.
• We strive to enhance the working environment also through CSR.

YEAR together – STEP forward

• In the first phase of the project, our employees are involved as instructors.
• In the second phase, they select a non-profit organisation which will become our partner for the following financial year. [ More ]

Charity Days

• Thanks to the KPMG volunteering programme, our employees can spend one fully-paid working day per year helping the communities.
• In 2013, 223 of our employees decided to get involved this way; in 2014 - 199 employees. [ More ]

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Employee grant programme

• We support organisations with which our employees have a relationship. Every year, we ask our employees to nominate organisations of their choice to the employee grant programme. Organisations selected by our employees may receive up to CZK 30 000.
• In 2013, we donated CZK 354 400 to projects recommended by our employees; in 2014 – CZK 408 118. [ More ]

Matching fund

• We support our employees wherever they want to help.
• If a group of employees get together and collect money for a good cause, the firm matches that amount, thus doubling the employees’ donation. [ More ]

A Day for Life

• Since 2009, we have been regularly providing our staff with the opportunity to donate blood right at the office by organising blood drives at our premises.
• In response to the wishes of our blood donors, we have agreed with our partner, the General University Hospital in Prague (Všeobecná fakultní nemocnice) to hold our blood drives at least two times a year. [ More ]

Sports for a good cause

• We give our employees a chance to help with their sports efforts by often supporting their participation in charity sporting events. [ More ]

Non-profit cinema

• Every month, directly in the KPMG building we show documentary films on important social or environmental issues.
• Every projection is followed by a discussion with experts from the non-profit sector
• The aim of this project is to acquaint our employees with opportunities for personal involvement.
• In the financial year 2014, a total of eight projections were held and attended by 138 viewers, including both employees and their relatives, who are also welcome to come and see the films at our premises.

Breakfast with Letohrádek Vendula

• Every two weeks and right at our offices, employees can buy baked goods made by the Letohrádek Vendula bakery providing sheltered employment.
• Through this offer, we try to show our staff opportunities for socially beneficial shopping.

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Ironing Ladies

• Our employees can get their laundry done by the Ironing Ladies, a socially beneficial company providing women disadvantaged in the labour market with work opportunities.
• The company picks up the laundry at our offices and delivers it washed and ironed back to the firm.