Insurance Faced with unprecedented disruption and cost pressure, insurance companies are navigating the challenges of meeting customer service expectations at competitive rates while offering innovative products and personalised distribution channels to remain relevant. Insurance companies are also dealing with questions about labor issues and the future of work, sustainability requisites, and broader economic factors like increasing interest rates and inflation. For an industry in which many participants have historically lagged in modernising operating models and systems, the time for change is now. Winners will leverage emerging technology and a diverse, agile, highly skilled workforce to gain customer loyalty and market share while protecting profitability.Protiviti helps insurers to be more effective and efficient in a way that is risk-sensitive, regulatory compliant, well-controlled, and enabled by leading technologies.Our firm is widely recognised for delivering practical solutions to insurance organisations that embody the five characteristics needed to succeed in the face of disruption: human, flexible, intelligent, innovative, modular. We have assembled integrated teams of technology and process advisors with the skill to help executives develop innovative solutions to confidently face emerging challenges and identify opportunities for structural transformation that align with your core values to ensure sustained future growth.Together with Robert Half, the world's first and largest specialised talent solutions firm, Protiviti offers the unrivaled combination of consulting expertise with Robert Half’s deep pool of highly skilled and experienced professionals to solve your business challenges using our unique, flexible delivery models. Survey December 22, 2023 2024 Top Risks in the Financial Services Industry Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative have been conducting our Top Risks Survey for the past 12 years. This journey began just as financial markets around the world were starting their long, slow recovery from the global financial crisis, and has since covered the worst global pandemic in 100 years as well as near record-low interest rates followed... Learn More What we do Our services Leadership Client stories Our services for Insurance companies Our insurance consulting advisors provide solutions tailored to your organisation’s unique needs in the following areas: Pro Briefcase Data Privacy Data privacy regulations are in flux globally. We partner with you to build the foundations of a strong but flexible privacy program that includes understanding principles and regulatory obligations, educating stakeholders and developing a governance structure for managing changes. Pro Building office Digital Transformation Evolving needs and customer expectations challenge even the most agile organisations. We help you think differently to redefine customer experience, explore new operating models, create enhanced digital channels, and build skills that instill a culture of innovation and agility. Pro Document Consent Ecosystem Partners We work across our partner ecosystem to develop solutions to offers unbiased technology recommendations, single-sourced solutioning, and agile collaboration to solve your most complex industry-specific challenges. Pro Document Files Finance Transformation Harnessing intelligent data, new technologies and digital tools, we help transform your finance organisations for the future. We partner with you to align people, process, and technology to drive efficiency and productivity, enabling change and creating value for your organisation. Pro Document Stack Managed Solutions We provide a unique and flexible delivery model to help you address short-term skill gaps, deliver project results, and transform your organisation by creating the right team that can scale up or down quickly and cost effectively to fit your needs. Pro Legal Briefcase Risk management Proactive leaders know they must adopt more innovative risk management practises to succeed. We help you leverage emerging technologies, harness data and maintain a strong control environment so you stay on the leading edge of risk management while improving your bottom line. Pro Workflow Flowchart Internal Audit Through our world-class Internal Audit and Sarbanes-Oxley practices, we ensure your IA activity provides the highest value to your organisation, whether you need to employ agile principles and AI to transform your IA function or co-source or fully outsource your Internal Audit and internal control compliance efforts. Pro Tools Gear Cybersecurity Cybersecurity is a top priority for boards and ERM functions seeking proper visibility and understanding of their cyber threat landscape. We help firms protect data by assessing, developing, implementing and managing end-to-end agile solutions to help you safely grow your business. Featured insights INSIGHTS PAPER Part 2: Risk transformation and the intersection with business transformation Risk maturity is a measure of an organisation’s risk management capabilities and culture. As organisations raise their risk maturity, it enhances elements across governance and framework, processes, people and organisations, methodologies, systems... BLOGS Business get ready! Australia takes another step forward with climate-related disclosure requirements The Australian proposed sustainability reporting regulation, also known as The Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and Other measures) Bill 2024 is now before the Australian Parliament for adoption. This follows a comment period... PODCAST Risky Women Podcast | Women in Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities Dive into the world of women in risk management. In this Risky Women podcast, Jenny Wong & Gayle Lacey discuss risk management challenges & opportunities. BLOG Improving Financial Services’ Efficiency with Copilot for Microsoft 365 Recently, Protiviti worked with Microsoft to author a whitepaper titled Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Maximizing its Potential for Financial Services Industry. In this whitepaper, Microsoft and Protiviti provide detailed information on the... WHITEPAPER Can we trust culture and conduct to guide decision making in the financial services industry? More than 15 years after the great financial crisis, the financial industry’s culture and conduct remain very much in the headlines. Has nothing changed? A lot has indeed changed, though bad actors still manage to prevail at times. Maintaining good... INSIGHTS PAPER Part 1: Value chain mapping for risk transformation in Australia's new regulatory environment New regulations in Australia have created new priorities around governance, executive accountability, and operational resilience. The new rules raise pressure on firms to transform in multiple ways, including through value chain analysis. INFOGRAPHIC Infographic | SIFMA’s Quantum Dawn VII Quantum Dawn VII is the latest iteration of SIFMA's biannual cybersecurity exercise focused on the outage of a critical third-party service provider (CTP). The simulation and concluding survey found many financial institutions are already experienced... Button Button Featured client stories Pacific Life Leverages Trust and Strong Partnerships to Achieve HR Transformation Discover how Pacific Life transformed their HR strategies, highlighting the pivotal role Protiviti played in driving success through trust and strategic partnership. Insurance Distribution Firm Positions Itself for Successful IPO and Global Expansion with Finance and Technology Transformation An award-winning, entrepreneurial insurance distribution and risk management firm serving more than 1.2 million clients was facing multiple challenges as it prepared to launch an initial public offering (IPO). The company was experiencing massive... Specialty insurer standardises policy platforms to deliver operational efficiencies ahead of IPO A global specialty insurance organisation had been growing rapidly through a roll-up strategy to position itself for an initial public offering (IPO). The acquisitions created multiple underwriting and policy management processes and systems that... Transforming risk culture from the bottom up: A global insurance provider’s RCSA journey A leading global property and casualty insurance provider set out to transform its risk controls as part of an ongoing effort to promote a culture of excellence. Siloed knowledge of operational risk and controls made it difficult for the organisation... Insurance giant seeks staff augmentation, gains new opportunities for growth A global insurance company — like so many other businesses — had come to rely on a service provider in India for finance operations support. It had no plan to change that arrangement. Then COVID struck. One week before 2020’s first-quarter closing,... Button Button Leadership Thomas Luick Tom is a Managing Director with more than 24 years of experience helping clients in the financial services industry solve technology, compliance, and risk management challenges. In addition to leading our Technology Consulting practice for the insurance industry ... Learn More Luca Medizza Luca Medizza è Managing Director presso l’ufficio di Milano ed è responsabile dell’area compliance per l’industry Financial Services. Con oltre 22 anni di esperienza, prima di entrare a far parte di Protiviti ha iniziato la sua esperienza professionale in Arthur ... Learn More