Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Leadership Claudia Lu Claudia Lu is a Financial Service Industry Managing Director based in Shanghai office of Protiviti Greater China. She is primarily engaged in consulting services for Risk & Compliance, including Credit Risk Management, Risk Analytics & Model Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Data Management, Financial Crime etc. She is Mainland China Financial Service Industry (FSI)… Blog July 12, 2022 Emerging Legal Risks: How Privacy and ESG Obligations Can Lead to Class-Action Litigation Often attributed to Mark Twain, the phrase “the only two certainties in life are death and taxes” actually originated in a 1789 letter from Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, a prominent French Scientist. When it comes to issues among corporations, one might add a third certainty: you are going to be sued. A betting person knows that a lawsuit (or regulatory inquiry) is going to: seek… Blog July 19, 2022 ARMing Up for a Paradigm Shift In the near future, we expect to see a potential disruption in computing due to a switch in computer architectures as traditional architecture begins to reach its upper limits, and newer alternate architectures currently used in mobile phones and low-power devices become more prominent and powerful. Computing has been dominated by the x86-64 architecture for the better part of the last 40 years… Blog July 20, 2022 How To Build And Maintain A Sustainable Workday Foundational Data Model For many organizations, shifting methodologies for processing financial transactions is easier said than done. Adopting and tailoring the Workday Financial Management Foundational Data Model (FDM) to record financial transactions can be overwhelming when migrating over from a more traditional “chart of accounts” (COA). We explain key concepts and share best practices to enable financial… Blog July 26, 2022 How to Build Effective FinOps Capabilities in Cloud Financial operations (FinOps) professionals around the world are generally unflappable, and they need to be. Moving finances to cloud, essentially transferring the spend from CapEx to OpEx, is proving to be a struggle. Organizations are seeing mixed success as they attempt to adopt new FinOps methodologies and are finding it difficult to control spend as development teams and engineers are… Blog July 27, 2022 Controls and Automation for Finance: SAP’s Game Changers Podcast Between the accelerating momentum of digitization and shifts in geopolitical and financial landscapes, enterprises all over the world face increasing cybersecurity threats. As a result, companies are focusing on internal controls and corporate resilience in both finance and cybersecurity. In addition to the disruptions cyberattacks inflict on operations, they also undermine the reliability of… Whitepaper July 12, 2021 Top 10 pitfalls of an IAM program In spite of over 20 years of experience as an industry, Identity & Access Management (IAM) programs continue to struggle — and with good reason. There is a lot that can go wrong with an IAM program. Lack of funding, treating IAM like a project and not a program, not having business buy-in, and trying to overly customize packaged software are all examples of significant challenges that can… Leadership Karen Smith Karen is a Managing Director of Enterprise Data & Analytics in the UK and has over 20 years experience in data both solutioning and delivering, primarily in financial services. Blog July 6, 2022 Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: 7 Challenges for CFOs to Address Along with their peers in the C-suite, CFOs have treated cybersecurity and data privacy as top strategic priorities for several years. Increasingly, regulators are embracing a similar approach and CFOs need to take note and be ready. Earlier this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to its rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and… Blog July 18, 2022 New Internal Auditing Around the World Book Features Profiles of Internal Audit Functions Helping to Shape the Workforce and Organization of the Future What does the future hold for the internal audit profession? Protiviti explores this question at some level in every annual edition of Internal Auditing Around the World®. Protiviti’s release of Volume 18 of Internal Auditing Around the World gives us occasion to reflect on just how much has changed in the internal audit profession since our inaugural edition in 2005. The core mission for… Load More