Finance & Operations
Collection
The role of finance and operation executives is evolving to keep pace with the changing demands of customers and technology. Our finance and operations collection compiles global perspectives to help leaders become a forward-thinking, strategic partner to the business.
Explore key findings from our finance survey on CFO transformations and global trends, emphasizing tech's role in strategic growth and security.
Featured Insights
Disruptors see the world differently
Disruptive change is happening, and more is coming. Is your organization ready to seize the moment? Our results, based on a global survey of more than...
Guide to Public Company Transformation: Frequently Asked Questions
Initial public offerings (IPOs) often generate a great deal of excitement and can give new luster to company brands. It is easy to forget that IPOs...
The High-Stakes Decision to Issue a Return-to-Office Mandate — Risks and Rewards
While the return-to-office decision is often framed in a straightforward manner — we believe collaboration, productivity and innovation flourish more...
CFOs Address a Data Security and Privacy Triple Threat
CFOs prioritize addressing the trifecta of data security and privacy threats due to rising cyber warfare, extortion risks, and stringent regulatory...
Enabling Technologies
Harnessing the future: Protiviti’s research on AI adoption
Due in large part to the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), organizations of all types and sizes are implementing, or considering...
AI Investments Require the CFO’s Expertise – and Vice Versa
Explore how CFO expertise is crucial for maximizing AI investments in finance for strategic growth and governance.
The Future of Microsoft Copilot for Finance
As the wheel of digital transformation continues to turn, it brings with it profound changes across a myriad of industries. Perhaps none so much as in...
Leveraging AI In Finance—Move From Theory To Practice
Finance leaders are actively prioritizing practical AI use cases that deliver near- and long-term value. And the reason is simple: the benefits of...
ESG
Podcast | ESG Mindset – A Conversation with Matthew Sekol
In this episode of Board Perspectives, Protiviti Associate Director Alyse Mauro Mason talks to Matthew about the ESG mindset, technology and where we...
CSDDD: It’s Not Too Soon To Get Moving
While the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) that took effect in January 2023 is primarily disclosure-oriented, the EU’s...
The ESG Controller—A “Job Of The Future” That’s Actually Here Now
As the stakes increase for ensuring the integrity of sustainability reports, CFOs across all industries should not only consider adding the ESG...
Sustainability: Frequently Asked Questions
The subject of sustainability continues to evolve and present challenges and opportunities for businesses. Protiviti has created a guide of frequently...
Workforce Transformation
2025 Report on Top Risks
Read Protiviti's Top Risks Report 2025 covering executives' views on emerging risks related to AI, cyber threats, talent management, and economic...
The Art (and Science) of Revamping Rewards Strategies
What’s new: HR leaders are having to rethink and relearn traditional rewards strategies in response to the growing need to vary, customize and...
21st-Century Board Oversight of Talent
Acute talent shortages across numerous industries underscore the risks emanating from outdated, reactionary approaches to managing people, succession...
Motivating the Multigenerational Workforce of 2030
Any predictions made before 2020 about the future of work have changed with COVID-19, inflation and social movements of the past two years. The...
Supply Chain
The Role of SAP in Aerospace and Defense Digital Transformation
Unleashing a new era of efficiency and innovation, digital transformation in the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry marks a pivotal shift,...
Podcast | Navigating Blind Spots: Supply Chain Considerations for Boards Under New Leadership with Frank Kurre and Lance Mangum
In this episode, Frank Kurre, Managing Director at Protiviti, and Lance Mangum, Staff Vice President of Government Affairs at FedEx Corporation,...
The Crucial Role of Business Integrators in SAP S/4HANA Implementations
Successful enterprise resource planning (ERP) programs enable transformation and help companies achieve their strategic objectives. To achieve true...
Services Are Taking Off in Aerospace and Defense
The big picture: C-suite leaders in traditional aerospace and defense (A&D) companies are launching and growing their aftermarket services and...
