ED&I is a top priority for us. Since creating our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we’ve been building on our positive work culture, establishing a robust approach of ED&I, and implementing initiatives to strengthen a culture of inclusion and equality, led from the top.
We want everyone to belong – and thrive with us
We value diverse abilities, backgrounds, life experiences and identities. We know that to put our people first and care passionately about them, we need to take the time to understand everyone in all their diverse and unique ways.
How will we continue to do that?
To take our strategy forward, we’ll draw on existing partnerships with Access Accountancy and Top Employers and collaborate with benchmarking organisations to support us in our commitments to gender, race, and socio-economic equality.
What we’ve achieved over the past three years
- Across our team of partners, female representation is sector leading at 38%. We also have good gender balance at Director and Senior Manager levels, and a 50/50 gender balance firmwide.
- We have met the Women in Finance Charter target of 40% women in senior management positions.
- We have made meaningful progress towards greater diversity of ethnicity in the pipeline to leadership.
- We have successfully attracted more candidates from lower socio-economic backgrounds than industry averages, most notably we have attracted more exceptional candidates from the ‘bottom 10% schools’ than the industry average.
- The majority of staff have participated in an ED&I Introductory workshop to build confidence, consistency and ownership of our ED&I commitments and initiatives.
- Inclusive Leadership trainings have been undertaken by Partners through to Assistant Managers to support a culture of psychological safety, belonging and conscious inclusion.
- People here feel a sense of belonging, scoring ~72 in our Great Place to Work survey over three years.
- Our six People Networks (Accessibility, Cultural Heritage, Faith, LGBTQ+, Social Mobility, Gender Equality) provide space for underrepresented groups to connect, support awareness raising moments and shape ED&I initiatives.
We know we still have work to do, but we’re dedicated to learning even more in creating equal opportunities for all of our people. Putting our people first is, and has always been, at the heart of who we are, and how we operate.
For more information, visit our gender equality at Saffery page.