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    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…

  • Client Story

    July 12, 2018
    U.S retailer launches global supply chain capability in record time
    Even under normal conditions, creating a global supply chain capability from scratch is a complex and grueling endeavor. When a large U.S. retailer made a strategic decision to develop this ability — which included securing new overseas suppliers for tens of thousands of products, satisfying all customs requirements and creating a nationwide distribution capability — in less than six months, the…

  • Survey

    July 30, 2024
    Internal Auditing Around the World®
    Studying the cosmos has transformed our understanding of how planets, stars and galaxies form, and revealed deeper insights into the fundamental nature of the universe. Astrophysicists and cosmologists pursue this knowledge, in effect, by looking into the past. Using cutting-edge technology like that employed in the James Webb Space Telescope, they examine places that existed billions of years…

  • July 14, 2023
    A fresh take on cloud transformation
    Cloud transformation is a process of moving applications, data and infrastructure to the cloud. Such simple definitions lack any sense of the business drivers or anticipated benefits that transformation strategies ought to encompass. After undertaking a “transformation” according to these simpler definitions, businesses are left operating in the same old way, making use of the same…

  • April 26, 2024
    Embrace DEI intersectionality for effective cybersecurity
    The role of a cyber incident responder is more critical than ever as these professionals are tasked with protecting organisations from cyber threats, mitigating risks and minimising the impact of security incidents. As cyber threats continue to proliferate, targeting organisations of all sizes and sectors, it is imperative for cyber incident response (CIR) teams to be well prepared at mitigating…

  • October 20, 2023
    From HR to strategic talent advisors: Redesigning workforce planning for success
    An organisation’s ability to perform, adapt and thrive requires new talent strategies. CHROs and their teams should deploy HR variants of the data-driven, forward-looking FP&A approaches that finance groups employ.A key point: This may require fundamental redesigns of job roles and organisational structure.Yes, but: Organisations cannot solve today’s talent shortage problems with yesterday’s…

  • Client Story

    May 12, 2022
    A National Retailer Takes on Inventory Shrink to Improve Margins
    Protiviti created a transparent end-to-end process flow by identifying gaps and providing recommendations for improvement and savings. A data deep dive reviewed elements of sales, markdowns and shrink data and a statistical analyses of shrink, damages and manual markdowns provided a total loss calculation.

  • 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.

  • July 31, 2023
    Simple is secure: Streamlining smart contract design
    For security teams looking to implement and design smart contracts, there are many intricacies and nuances that can be overwhelming. Using established standards for the secure development of smart contracts/decentralised applications (dApps) is instrumental to effectively launch smart contracts. In an earlier blog, I introduced the basics of smart contracts; today, I’m diving into existing…

  • May 17, 2024
    Inclusive culture starts with contract language
    Anyone who wins business via competitive bid may have noticed that requests for proposals (RFPs) increasingly feature instructions to adopt inclusive language in responses. Over the past several years, more and more potential customers are seeking cybersecurity partners whose values in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) correspond with their own. Sometimes, enterprises will…
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