Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

We help identify key stakeholder expectations and assess major impact areas, define your ambition level, then set targets and measures to reach them.

• Analyses, Assessment and Benchmarking: Our proven methods provide guidance and data driven assessments to enable lasting business transformation. We analyse all areas of the company to understand current organisational maturity and build the roadmap for the future.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Sustainability becomes a strategic asset to address the increasingly demanding sustainability expectations of all stakeholders. Since ESG can have a different meaning to each group of stakeholders, we will help you identify, analyse and align their objectives.
• Frameworks and Standards: Sustainability reporting can help your organisation identify and report on the topics that matter most to stakeholders while monitoring performance against ESG goals. We will tailor a customised reporting solution and help you select the most suitable framework.
• Strategy Definition: Sustainability’s high impact requires integrating your ESG strategy into your business strategy and aligning all objectives with your ESG vision and mission. Our holistic approach supports you in mastering this challenge, creating long-term value for your organisation.
• Programme Management and Execution: We provide the expertise to develop, implement and measure programme success. Our approach helps you reach (and communicate) your objectives and ensure long-term value. We supervise and manage your ESG projects to effectively guide you through the process.

We help implement sustainability solutions throughout the value chain, driving compliance to global standards and improving management of materials, energy and water.

• CO2 Reduction: Changing stakeholder expectations by identifying opportunities to reduce emissions that contribute to a sustainable environment.
• Water Management: Protiviti helps organisations increase water efficiency, create water savings, and implement a water stewardship culture.
• Material Management: Reach toward a true circular economy and waste-free culture by reducing and reusing materials.
• ESG Health Check and Realisation Review: Assess the environmental health of your organisation and evaluate the effectiveness of sustainability measures aimed at achieving established targets. 
• Value Chain Enhancement: Shape behaviors and deploy solutions that help achieve supplier diversity and sustainable use of natural resources throughout the value chain. 
• Culture of Sustainability: Embed ESG goals and ambitions into your business strategy by creating a culture of sustainability through diversity, equity, inclusion, wellbeing, and workforce safety. 
• People Experience:Ensure all the touchpoints across the employment lifecycle are designed to create moments that matter to attract and retain the best talent. ESG and workforce of the future are connected as purpose, new methods of working, automation and social responsibility are key.
• Data Privacy: Navigate the evolving landscape of data privacy requirements. Our global cross-functional team helps design, implement, and examine the effectiveness of your privacy programme to protect customer and employee data against cyberthreats and other issues.

We enable better decision-making and focus on regulatory requirements, including the timeliness and accuracy of reporting and external communication with regulators.

• Reporting: Stakeholders expect more transparency from organisations in their disclosures. Effective reporting of your material topics is key to the success of all ESG programmes. We can help you establish or enhance your ESG reporting to facilitate better decision making within your organisation.
• Data and Tools: ESG data can be overwhelming and complex. Processes in this area are traditionally neglected and manual in nature. We help you navigate through these complexities to find new processes and tools to successfully manage ESG data.
• Governance: Proper oversight is needed in the world of ESG. This includes setting the right policies, making sure roles and responsibilities are defined at the board level and across the three lines of defense, and effective KPIs and internal controls are in place.
• Risk Management: ESG needs to be integrated into your organisation’s risk management processes. This includes making sure the right ESG risks are identified, monitored and reported for all stakeholders to make effective decisions.
• Compliance: The regulatory landscape is constantly changing around the world and ESG is currently at the top of many new and emerging requirements. Firms need to stay updated on these regulations to avoid regulatory or legal risks.
• Technology Strategy: We provide solutions to lead your IT business while managing the risk and governance of execution and operations. From strategy design to operating model enablement, leveraging innovation, proven practices and adaptive delivery models for maximum value realisation.