Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Survey October 1, 2024 Cost Optimisation Is a Top CFO Priority, but Some Finance Groups Fall Short Explore how CFOs prioritise cost optimisation in financial strategies for enhanced revenue and resilience, according to our survey. Whitepaper June 27, 2023 What Role Should Compliance Play in ESG? By Bernadine Reese and Jackie SanzRegulators and many other stakeholders are intently focused on how financial institutions address environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. Within financial institutions, boards of directors, executive management and much of the C-suite are weighing in on the ESG strategy and approach. Chief compliance officers (CCOs), though, have been remarkedly… Podcast September 10, 2024 Podcast | Transform: Assessing CFO and finance leader perspectives and priorities for the coming year – with Chris Wright and Nick Puetz A look at the top priorities for CFOs and finance leaders in the coming year — among them, security and privacy of data, financial and strategic planning and analysis, leadership, and enhanced data analytics — reveals a tale of transformation for CFOs whose responsibilities continue to widen. Client Story December 14, 2023 Solving Legacy Accounting Challenges With Automation and Process Improvements Protiviti partnered with clients to implement best-of-breed digital solutions to automate financial close processes, along with process improvements and data governance and controls solutions to resolve the issues. Change management to support accounting teams in adopting the new processes was also a key deliverable. Client Story July 19, 2023 Finance Transformation Sets Course for Future Success A U.S.-based global skincare company was unable to provide timely financial reporting and performance analytics to its key stakeholders and private equity sponsor. Protiviti partnered with the company’s CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, and key stakeholders to assess and redesign the book close, reporting, and forecasting processes. Insights paper September 22, 2023 Sustainability and Private Markets: A Structured Approach to Value Creation The ESG regulatory landscape is starting to form: In the public markets worldwide, companies are trying to determine how to respond to and incorporate stringent sustainability-related disclosure requirements from the EU. Meanwhile, the International Sustainability Standards Board has completed its work on a set of voluntary standards for public companies globally. In the U.S., the SEC is poised… Whitepaper November 12, 2025 Importance of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), JVs and Alliances in Real Estate The MENA region is experiencing an unprecedented wave of urban transformation, nearly $400 billion* worth of PPP and JV projects are in the pipeline across megaprojects. But ambition comes with complexity!The PPP failure occurs because of cost overruns, legal ambiguities, and misaligned incentives, cause project derailments. The combination of macroeconomic instability with increasing… Whitepaper September 30, 2024 Leveraging Active Learning for Efficient Training of Machine Learning Models with Limited Labeled Data Learn how Active Learning reduces labeling efforts, boosts model accuracy, and enhances business outcomes with minimal manual input. Discover real-world applications and ROI. Whitepaper January 13, 2026 Zero Touch Operations (ZTO) Zero Touch Operations (ZTO) represents a fundamental shift in how banking operations are designed and executed. This Thought Leadership introduces a comprehensive ZTO framework that leverages intelligent automation, agentic AI, and real-time governance to systematically eliminate manual intervention across high-volume processes. Grounded in regional use cases and measurable outcomes, the paper… Whitepaper April 17, 2024 Internal Audit’s Role in Supporting Sustainability Reporting Environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidance, stakeholder demands and regulatory mandates are evolving and becoming more specific, and the time of taking a “soft approach” to sustainability reporting has passed. As the need to provide, or prepare to provide, limited and/or reasonable assurance in sustainability reporting grows, internal audit’s role in the reporting process becomes obvious… Load More