Succession Planning in Finance: Sourcing the Next Generation of Leaders
According to Protiviti’s most recent Top Risks survey, succession planning is among leaders’ top concerns. At the same time, another survey conducted by Robert Half among chief financial officers (CFOs) only shows a startling 48% of them had not identified their own successors. Of those, 64% cited their own intentions to stay in their current […]
Gender Diversity Can Aid Cybersecurity: CISO Panel Suggests Keys to Greater Female Participation
It’s no secret that the current skills shortage is especially acute in the area of cybersecurity. A 2018 study by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)², reported a shortage of nearly 3 million cybersecurity professionals globally, including a gap of roughly 500,000 trained staff in North America alone. And CIO/CTO respondents to […]
Insurers Targeted in UK Supervisory Authorities’ Latest Effort to Develop Formal Operational Resilience Regulations
The resiliency of the insurance industry, especially its ability to protect policyholders from the impact of severe operational failures, is a major focus of the latest regulatory effort to strengthen the operational resilience of the UK’s financial services sector. When the Bank of England (BOE), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority […]
The 2020 Audit Committee Agenda: Asking the Right Questions
With accounting standards changing and regulatory scrutiny expanding beyond financial performance, 2020 offers an opportunity for audit committees to work on improving the broader risk and control environment, including non-financial — enterprise, process and technology — risk disclosures. As in years past, Protiviti has prepared a recommended agenda for audit committees to help focus their […]
