Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Survey January 24, 2022 Strategic Convergence: Three Focal Points That Require CIO/CFO Collaboration As CIOs strive to foster a data-first mindset throughout their organisations, they’ll discover that their CFOs are targeting the same objective in their finance groups — to make better decisions and take smarter risks. Protiviti’s 2021 Global Finance Trends Survey, an annual global survey of CFOs and finance leaders, shows that CFOs are strengthening their already-intense focus on data analytics… Newsletter May 6, 2025 Private Equity Insights Q2 2025 In this issue of Private Equity Insights, we begin by sharing insights from Protiviti’s Private Equity Top Risks Survey Brief. Economic concerns, such as inflationary pressures and slower growth, are causing some private equity firms to focus more on enhancing portfolio company value and efficiency. Next, we continue the focus on key economic issues with a Protiviti Powerful Insights podcast on… Blogs December 20, 2024 How managed services can revolutionise SAP GRC operations As organisations transition to SAP S/4HANA and SAP cloud solutions, they often discover that GRC capabilities and processes also need to be updated on a more frequent basis. One example of a continuously changing dataset is the segregation of duties (SoD) ruleset. With S/4HANA, the GRC ruleset now supports monitoring many new access types including Fiori apps and HANA database access. Survey November 6, 2023 A New Reality for CFOs – ESG is the Top Priority Environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics and measurement rate as the top priority for CFOs, other finance leaders and their teams for the next 12 months, according to our latest Global Finance Trends Survey. Three out of five organisations (60%) report a substantial increase in the focus and frequency of their reporting related to ESG issues in the past year (on top of similar findings… Blogs August 8, 2022 ESG Journey Just Beginning, but Leaders Have a Clear Competitive Advantage As companies come under growing pressure to make measurable, reportable (and reported) progress on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, there is increased demand on business leaders to implement effective sustainability practices that resonate with customers, partners and employees. Technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies have not been immune to the pressure.… Blogs October 31, 2024 Unlocking Effectiveness: How Generative AI is Revolutionising Enterprise Architecture The emergence of generative AI (GenAI) promises transformative impacts across all areas of an organisation, including enterprise architecture. Since generative AI debuted in the public spotlight with ChatGPT in November 2022, organisations are eagerly exploring use cases on how this technology can enhance employee productivity and drive revenue growth. Blogs August 14, 2024 Year one insights: SEC cybersecurity incident management disclosure rules CFOs should school CISOs on materiality evaluations and reporting to the board, while CISOs can help finance chiefs better understand recovery costs, remediation efforts, single versus aggregate breaches and the nature of compromised data. Partnering closely with their CISO is one of several actions CFOs should consider to strengthen their cybersecurity disclosures, preparedness and incident… Podcast April 28, 2022 Podcast: Future of Analytics - Empowering Intelligent Decision Making The current and future state of risk analytics is bedrock to empowering the compliance function’s forward-looking agenda. With the evolution of enterprise risks, advancements in analytics, and the ever-morphing regulatory landscape, compliance can be transformed by being further data driven, and monetise the deployment of advanced analytics in empowering intelligent decision-making and risk… Survey November 7, 2023 What Boards Need to Know About the CFO’s Changing Priorities As board members engage with CFOs, they should keep in mind that CFO priorities increasingly overlap with the company’s top strategic goals and risks. Case in point: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics and measurement rate as the CFO’s topmost priority in Protiviti’s latest Global Finance Trends Survey. Further evidence of this trend lies in the fact that a majority of finance… Newsletter February 12, 2021 Implementing Operational Resilience Across the Organisation: An Essential Checklist Like any enterprisewide organisational change, implementing an operational resilience programme across an organisation requires a careful and collaborative effort to be successful. Whether implementation has been in the works for several years or is just beginning, turning the resilience programme from concept to reality is hard work. Except for the most dynamic and change-… Load More
