Turnover at EY – formerly Ernst and Young – topped £1.7billion during the past year, allowing the firm to take on more than 1,200 people.
Accounts out today reveal the firm made £1.721billion for the year ending 28 June, 2013, up 6% from £1.631billion the previous 12 months.
It now wants to recruit 2,400 more people as it continues to expand across Britain.
Bosses said EY’s Scottish practice – comprised of offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness – continues to make a big contribution to the growth. It employs more than 850 people north of the border.
Despite wider economic uncertainty, graduate numbers in Scotland have increased annually since the onset of the recession and more than 50 are to join the firm’s Scottish offices this year. The intake to its school-leaver programme, which was successfully trialled in Aberdeen, is being doubled.
Jim Bishop, Scotland senior partner at EY, said: “Our market-leading oil and gas proposition and the gains we have made in financial services and the public sector have seen us add real value to the firm’s growth ambitions.
“We aim to maintain our position as Scotland’s biggest professional services firm; an aspiration reflected in the investment we continue to make in our people.
“What’s more, we recognise that the coming year is a milestone in Scotland’s constitutional history and we will continue to monitor the country’s economic performance and canvass the opinions of its business community through our established reports.”
Derek Leith, EY Aberdeen office managing partner, added: “We have maintained our policy of recruiting the best and brightest young graduate talent and I believe we have assembled a team perfectly geared towards helping our clients and the wider oil and gas industry.”