Big Four accounting giant KPMG recently named Michelle Wroan, who has led the company’s Los Angeles operation since 2020, to its U.S. board of directors.
Wroan first joined the L.A. operation in 1993 and made partner in 2006. In addition to running L.A., Wroan’s promotion to office managing partner five years ago put KPMG’s Southwest Region under her leadership.
In a statement, Wroan said she was honored to be further elevated to the board.
“It’s a privilege to serve alongside our talented leaders and help advance our firm’s strategy and values as we navigate the rapidly changing business environment,” she said.
Wroan will serve a five-year term on the board, which is composed of 15 total partners from across the United States plus three additional independent external members.
With just shy of 1,200 accounting professionals, KPMG’s local outfit was in February ranked as the fourth largest accounting firm operating in L.A. by the Business Journal.
Wroan took the helm in L.A. as the world continued to reel from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, which put most office-based workers in a remote working arrangement. As employers have readjusted their working arrangements, Wroan has maintained a hybrid working model for its employees while also taking advantage of generative articial intelligence accounting programs in the workplace.
With that arrangement likely in mind, Wroan is leading an effort to reshuffle that workforce in Southern California. KPMG in August injected some life into downtown’s sagging office market by inking a three-floor, 70,000 square foot deal at the U.S. Bank Tower – one of the area’s largest leases of the year. This deal will move the firm’s workers out of their longtime workspace at 550 S. Hope St., where its 88,000-square-foot lease is sunsetting.
Additionally, KPMG newly took out about 50,000 square feet of office space in El Segundo, at the Plaza at Continental Park.
