Deloitte elects Ana Torrens as president, the first woman to head a ‘big four’ in Spain
Deloitte Spain has proposed Ana Torrens as the next president of the professional services firm to succeed Héctor Flórez, an appointment that is not yet formal, since it has to be voted on at the next shareholders’ meeting, as company sources confirmed to Efe this Tuesday.
This appointment, if ratified at the members’ meeting, will make Torrens the first woman to chair a big four -as the group of consulting firms made up of KPMG, EY, PwC and Deloitte is called- in Spain, as announced this Tuesday The Confidential.
A profile with a long history
Torrens is up to now partner responsible for Audit & Assurance since June 1, 2021 and member of the firm’s Global Audit Committee, according to the Deloitte Spain website.
Until then and since 2017, she was the partner responsible for Deloitte’s Audit & Assurance in Catalonia, Aragon, the Balearic Islands and Andorra of Deloitte for the Products and Services industry, a team she joined in 1994.
Throughout his professional career he has carried out numerous financial audits and advisory projects among which initiatives to improve processes, organization and risk management, strategic plans and feasibility analysis stand out.
She is a member of the Official Registry of Account Auditors (ROAC) and, at the teaching level, has been a professor at ESADE on topics related to international regulations and financial information and has taught numerous courses on the real estate sector, accounting, international accounting regulations and auditing.
The mandate of Flórez, who replaced Fernando Ruiz at the head of Deloitte Spain in June 2022, has a validity of four years.
Ruiz, for his part, chained three terms since his appointment as president in 2009, to which is added the one-year extension agreed to facilitate the institutional transition in a context marked by the pandemic.
