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MONTRÉAL’S TOP EMPLOYERS (2025)
Crowe goes the distance to help its employees thrive
F
or Sacha Robillard,
a senior tax manager
at Crowe BGK LLP,
the firm has provided
uncommon support
on the professional level. “I’m
someone who likes to work mostly
on complex consulting mandates,”
he says of his two years at its
Montréal office (another is located
in Ottawa). “And at Crowe, they’ve
provided me with the kind of work
I really enjoy. In many other firms,
they just ask you to do the work
they want you to do.”
But on a personal level, too, the
public accounting and advisory
services firm has made life easier
for Robillard. “One of the main
reasons I joined Crowe,” he
explains, “is that they were very
supportive of the fact that my
boyfriend, Maxime Charron, is
a trapeze artist with Cirque du
Soleil, which travels a lot, and the
other place where I had worked
was very strict about travelling
and working from abroad.
“I told Crowe that it was important for me to join my boyfriend
in Europe, the United States or
whatever, and to do everything
required by my job,” Robillard
continues. “And they allowed our
relationship to continue amid
a very stressful period.” While
working, Robillard has been able
to accompany his partner as he
performed in places including
Cairo, Prague, Berlin, Grand
Canary Island and various sites in
the United States.
For Isabelle Nadeau, a partner
in Crowe’s tax department
and Robillard’s supervisor, her
employer is outstanding because
of its human approach, she says.
“We’re a professional firm, and
therefore our people are at the
very heart of our organization.
We’re looking for the best talent,
and we want to grow them internally and retain them.”
At Crowe, we all really
work together. For me, that
is precious, because you get
experience you otherwise
probably wouldn’t have
access to.
— Sacha Robillard
Senior Tax Manager
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Partners at Crowe BGK value mentorship, making it a priority to regularly work closely with employees.
One facet of the firm’s personalized focus is that “we don’t have
in the tax department a predetermined career path where you
have to stay X number of years at
a certain level before you can be
considered for promotion,” she
notes. “We try to be flexible and
give employees every opportunity,
so we allow for fast growth when
there’s strong potential.”
Nadeau has herself moved up
through the ranks during her
decade-plus with Crowe, benefiting from the firm’s various training
initiatives — and its employeefirst ethos. “It’s important for us
to retain talent, so people are
absolutely key in this organization.
Our people don’t see themselves
as just a number; we want them
to feel they are bringing a unique
contribution to the team.”
Robillard attests to that team
approach. “In other accounting
firms, most of the time the partner
