Risk through the Lens of Leadership
Rethink risk and explore how company leaders can see, take and manage risk to protect value and power growth.
CEO
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Audit Executive
CAE
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Chief Finance Officer
CFO
Chief Operations Officer
COO
Chief People Officer
CPO
Chief Compliance Officer
CCO
Chief Information Security Officer
CISO
Chief Risk Officer
CRO
Chief Technology Officer
CTO
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Set the strategic direction of the company and oversee its activities in line with stakeholder expectations.
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Chief Sustainability Officer
CSO
Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
Develop, implement and monitor execution of a sustainability strategy, in line with the organisation's objectives.
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Oversee the organisation's day-to-day administrative and operational functions.
Chief People Officer (CPO)
Attract, develop and retain an efficient and effective workforce that embodies company values and helps the company achieve its objectives.
Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)
Strengthen trust & transparency, and navigate risk & regulatory complexity.
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Establish and oversee the infrastructure and processes to secure and maintain the organisation's information assets.
Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
Help the organisation to understand, mitigate and prioritise risks that might stop it achieving its objectives.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Define and implement the organisation's technology strategy and manage its technology infrastructure and data.
Chief Audit Executive (CAE)
Manage IA activity in accordance with the IA charter and expectations of the Audit Committee (or equivalent).
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Oversee the organisation's financial strategy and financial operations.
Chief Human Resources Officer
CHRO
Chief Marketing Officer
CMO
Chief Information Officer
CIO
Chief Legal Officer
CLO
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Build trusted partnerships and alliances
Respond to crisis
Build strategic resilience
Build resilience to protect value
Increase sales and market share
Increase profitability and manage costs
Reinvent business model
Risk Alliances Implement technology and services from world-leading providers to help you see, take and manage risk with greater agility and competitive advantage, including solutions to power new business opportunities.
Enterprise Risk & Control Obtain confidence in the performance of your strategic alliances, vendors, suppliers and other key relationships, including adherence to service, quality and financial obligations.
to help the company grow, reinvent and achieve competitive advantage in the market through strategic business arrangements.
Forensics Deploy technology-driven forensic intelligence and analytics to investigate and respond to fraud, bribery, corruption and other financial crime-related crises.
Crisis & Resilience Help your leadership quickly respond to any crisis, mobilising global specialists in areas like cyber and financial crime.
to ensure the company can minimise disruption, maintain trust and emerge stronger.
Crisis & Resilience Build a flexible operating model that can adapt through disruption using resilience methodologies and technology.
Macro Risk Understand geopolitical, economic and regulatory challenges to successfully navigate global threats, maintain operations and achieve business goals.
to reduce the threat of competitive disruption and increase agility to navigate external risks.
Enterprise Technology Implement new technology to automate business processes and support new digital business models.
AI Risk Obtain confidence to design and integrate AI into your sales operations to help drive growth and enhance customer experience.
to increase sales, market penetration and brand awareness to drive company growth.
Macro Risk Understand economic, regulatory and geopolitical trends to identify new business opportunities for profitable growth, such as supply chain reconfiguration and new market entry.
Enterprise Risk & Control Streamline your processes and controls to reduce manual effort, eliminate duplication, and increase effectiveness and reliance.
to deliver shareholder value and allow continued investment in company products and services, technology, infrastructure and people.
Cyber Explore new digital business strategies and obtain comfort that your systems and cyber security environment can support them effectively.
Risk & Data Modelling Use trusted financial and risk models to identify and move forward with new business opportunities.
to remain relevant and competitive, and drive growth, including transforming products, services and sales challenges.
Take risk intelligently to create value
Protect operational systems
Manage third-party operations
Deliver successful capital projects and infrastructure
Transform services and operations
Increase operational performance
Data Governance Evaluate the effectiveness of controls over the configuration and data used in—and generated by—your operational systems.
Cyber Deploy end-to-end cyber capabilities to help build, assess and manage operational technology security, and respond to incidents.
to help ensure the integrity, stability and availability of services and operations, including manufacturing and logistics systems and infrastructure.
Internal Audit Conduct independent internal audits at key third parties to obtain comfort over their control environment, build trust and ensure they can continue to support business operations.
Enterprise Risk & Control Optimise vendor and supply chain risk management, processes and controls to support business transformation.
to reduce operational issues and errors by understanding risks, implementing controls and developing contingency plans for significant third-parties, such as vendors, outsource providers and suppliers.
Trust & Transparency Provide confidence to management, investors, financers and other stakeholders on progress, spend and results of significant projects and initiatives.
Capital Projects & Infrastructure Implement robust mechanisms to manage risk and maximise value when planning, building, financing, operating and decommissioning significant projects and infrastructure.
to expand and modernise operations and business ecosystem, including investment in national and/or industry transformation.
Trust & Transparency Provide comfort to stakeholders that transformation programmes are governed and delivered successfully to meet business objectives.
to implement innovative new services and expand global operations to enhance customer experience and support growth opportunities.
Enterprise Risk & Control Automate, integrate and streamline risk, control and compliance monitoring, assessment and reporting processes, and eliminate duplication and redundancy.
Enterprise Technology Increase automation and reduce complexity and risk in systems and data.
to enhance efficiency, manage costs and transform and optimise processes.
Provide objective assurance
Keep pace with quality standards
Maximise coverage of current and emerging risks
Develop leading Internal Audit talent
Embrace technology and innovation
Deliver strategic Internal Audit
Enterprise Risk & Control Implement an integrated/combined assurance model to ensure effective and efficient alignment between first, second and third line functions in control, risk mitigation and assurance activity.
Internal Audit Combine modern audit methods, technology, industry knowledge and subject matter expertise to deliver effective IA, anywhere in the world, either on a co-source or outsource basis.
to ensure the company has an independent mechanism to promote good governance.
Internal Audit Evaluate your Internal Audit function against global standards, including IIA and regulatory expectations. Plan, develop and structure IA, so that it is the right fit for your organisation—and fit for the future, including establishing modern standardised methodologies, audit technology and quality review processes.
to ensure that Internal Audit continues to provide meaningful assurance and valuable insights and meeting increasing expectations.
Internal Audit Leverage efficient and effective managed services to deliver world-class Internal Audit, leveraging technology and global subject matter expertise to cover all significant risk areas. Combine modern audit methods, technology, industry knowledge and subject matter expertise to deliver effective IA, anywhere in the world.
to continue to focus on the risks that matter and provide assurance they are being addressed.
Internal Audit Implement and deliver a talent programme tailored to your strategy that builds and maintains the right technical and business acumen. Leverage subject matter expertise in areas like cyber, ESG, regulatory compliance, AI and data, to help you deliver specialist audits, anywhere in the world.
to unleash the potential of your people and help ensure Internal Audit can deliver on its commitments and remain relevant.
Enterprise Technology Implement technology to support effective governance and risk management, including a company-wide view of risk, consistent data and automation of monitoring.
Internal Audit Deploy, configure and use technology to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of IA, and extract knowledge and insights from data.
to increase Internal Audit efficiency and effectiveness and deliver more value.
Internal Audit Evaluate your Internal Audit function against global leading practices to help it meet current and future needs and deliver greater value. Assign specialists to support Internal Audit deliver insights and assurance on strategic areas that truly matter (e.g. digital transformation, new product development, ESG, and M&A).
to ensure Internal Audit helps the company achieve its strategic goals in the best way.
Establish AI and technology governance
Develop technology risk management strategies
Implement robust cybersecurity
Get the most from your data
Maximise value from technology
Harness the power of emerging technologies
Enterprise Technology Obtain comfort over the configuration and controls that help ensure system data and reports used for financial, regulatory and other reporting (e.g. ESG) are complete, accurate and valid.
AI Risk Implement a robust AI governance framework to help you to successfully adopt AI solutions that can accelerate growth.
to ensure that technology investments, including AI adoption, align with the organisation's strategic goals by evaluating and selecting appropriate technology, managing vendor relationships and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
to protect the organisation from current and emerging technology risks and comply with relevant laws and regulations by establishing robust enterprise-wide governance and control approaches.
to protect the organisation's sensitive data, intellectual property and customer information. This includes implementing firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection systems and regular security audits.
to empower the organisation with trusted information to support important business decisions and unveil new insights.
Cyber Embed efficient and effective cyber security operations to protect technology investment and value, including leveraging cyber managed services.
Enterprise Technology Obtain confidence over ERP and Cloud transformation, and configure technology to maximise value and support new business models and Alliance partnerships.
to accelerate value, streamline processes and maintain a robust infrastructure to improve productivity and efficiency and reduce costs.
to drive innovation and reinvention, find new growth opportunities, optimise business operations and improve products, services and customer experience.
Enterprise Technology Gain confidence over ERP and Cloud transformation, and configure technology to maximise value.
Risk AI Implement Responsible AI Framework to speed up adoption and implementation of AI, and optimise risk and control processes using AI.
Data Governance Optimise data systems and controls to put timely, trusted information in the hands of decision-makers and those delivering key business activities.
Risk & Data Modelling Unlock new data insights and business opportunities through advanced analytics and models.
Crisis Response Plan, prepare and respond effectively to cyber and data incidents and remediate to emerge stronger.
Cyber Deploy end-to-end cyber capabilities to help build, assess and manage cyber security and data protection activities, and respond to incidents.
Internal Audit Obtain confidence in the effectiveness of technology controls through objective IA reviews and insight (including at key third-party technology vendors).
Cyber (managed services) Leverage PwC cyber managed service capabilities, such as threat intelligence and monitoring, and tailor and optimise risk responses in a cost-effective way.
Promote a dynamic risk culture
Meet corporate governance requirements
Mitigate key risks
Digitise risk management
Capture new strategic opportunities
Embed risk-based decision-making
Internal Audit Leverage Internal Audit objectivity to gauge the maturity of the company's risk culture and how to enhance it.
Forensics Build robust framework and processes around ethics and behaviours to help reinforce a culture of compliance across the organisation.
to enable people at all levels of the organisation to better navigate risk and do the right thing at the right time.
Regulatory Compliance Respond effectively to existing and new regulations and stakeholder obligations, including implementing integrated technology and AI to lower the cost of compliance.
AI Risk Manage risks related to your AI systems and models and provide confidence to regulators and stakeholders in the governance, controls and data that underpin them.
to help maintain the 'health' of the organisation and the trust of your investors, customers, employees, regulators and other stakeholders.
Crisis & Resilience Plan, prepare and respond effectively to cyber and data incidents and remediate to emerge stronger, including Board/leadership simulations on crisis.
Enterprise Risk & Control Design robust risk management, monitoring and reporting processes to build trust and support faster, more effective decision-making, leveraging cutting-edge risk technology and data techniques.
to reduce the likelihood or impact of issues that threaten the company's' strategic objectives, finances, operations, people or reputation.
Data Governance Design, implement and assess governance, processes and controls over data to establish its completeness, accuracy and validity and supports business operations, reporting and decision-making.
to optimise risk activities, reduce costs of compliance and unlock new insights to support intelligent risk-taking.
by being able to better understand macro and market risks and identify competitive advantages by navigating them effectively.
Financial Risk Management Transform financial risk management operations, processes and technology, including treasury operations, to support important financial decisions.
Enterprise Risk Management Design robust risk management, monitoring and reporting processes to build trust and support faster, more effective decision-making, leveraging cutting-edge risk technology and data techniques.
to provide confidence in strategic management decisions that help the organisation grow and reinvent.
Build financial resilience
Meet sustainability disclosure requirements
Ensure robust external reporting
Raise capital and demonstrate return-on-investment
Optimise finance systems and processes
Deploy effective financial strategy
Crisis & Resilience ‘Stress test’ your financial strategy and build an effective resilience and crisis plan to navigate and respond to issues and emerge stronger.
to help withstand and survive financial ‘shocks’ caused by market, regulatory or operational issues.
Sustainability Risk Establish processes to ensure processes, systems and controls over external reporting are effective and data is complete and accurate. Obtain trust in assumptions, processes, systems and underlying data models used for sustainability reporting and decision-making.
to deliver robust, timely and trusted sustainability reporting to regulators, customers, investors and other stakeholders.
Connected Tax Compliance Use robust methodologies and digital tools to ensure the effective and efficient collation, calculation and reporting of tax information to meet tax compliance obligations.
Internal Audit Leverage modern IA techniques and tools to obtain assurance over the systems and data that generate reporting and confidence that all regulatory requirements have been satisfied.
to meet all local and global reporting requirements, including financial, control, tax and other regulatory standards.
Trust & Transparency Provide confidence to investors, financers and other stakeholders on progress, spend and results of significant projects and initiatives.
Financial Risk Management Enhance governance over significant investments to provide confidence in decision-making and move forward, including due diligence and readiness for deals and IPO.
to maximise value and returns from investments and deals, in line with the company strategy.
Enterprise Risk & Control Streamline and automate your financial control frameworks (e.g. SOX) to reduce manual effort, eliminate duplication and increase effectiveness and reliance.
Financial Risk Management Transform financial risk management operations, processes and technology to address complex commercial and regulatory requirements, including treasury optimisation.
to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs.
Enterprise Technology Maximise use of your ERP systems to generate new actionable insights on your financial strategy and ensure it is generating a return-on-investment.
Risk & Data Modelling Use trusted financial and risk models to make better financial decisions and unlock confidence for new investment opportunities.
to help capture investment opportunities and deploy capital and resources efficiently.
Protect confidential and private data
Protect against cyber attacks
Respond to security incidents and crisis
Support transformation
Optimise security operations
Regulatory Compliance Respond effectively to existing and new data regulations and stakeholder obligations, including implementing robust data governance and security mechanisms.
Data Governance Evaluate the effectiveness of controls underpinning the security of confidential and private information, including its classification, management, availability and usage.
to maintain trust with customers and other stakeholders and comply with relevant laws and regulations.
Cyber Embed the latest end-to-end cyber security capabilities to build, assess and manage cyber security activities, including security assessments and identity management. Leverage efficient and effective managed services to address the latest security threats, including using cyber threat intelligence to increase foresight and agility.
by proactively identifying, implementing and validating security measures to protect the company and foster a strong culture of security awareness.
Forensics Deploy technology-driven forensic intelligence and analytics to investigate and respond to crime and misconduct, including those related to cyber incidents and data breaches.
Crisis & Resilience Plan, prepare and respond effectively to cyber and data incidents and remediate to emerge stronger.
AI Risk Implement a robust AI governance framework to help you to successfully adopt AI solutions that can enhance security and help the company accelerate growth.
Cyber Incorporate cyber expertise into strategic projects and transformation activity, including designing the security operating model and providing confidence to stakeholders prior to implementation (cyber due diligence).
to ensure the systems and data powering new products and services are secure, reliable and trusted, and can be implemented with confidence.
Risk Alliances Implement technology and services from world-leading providers to help you see, take and manage risk with greater agility and competitive advantage, including data security and integration solutions.
Cyber Design or evaluate your target operating model for security to ensure it leverages the latest technology, talent and leading practices, and supports the company's strategic priorities. Leverage efficient and effective managed services to address the latest security threats, including using cyber threat intelligence to increase foresight and agility.
to focus on higher risks and priorities, manage costs, and maximise the performance and value of security resources.
Manage third-party compliance
Navigate ethics and behaviour threats
Address complex or new regulatory requirements
Promote a culture of compliance
Embrace strategic compliance
Tackle the cost of compliance
Internal Audit Conduct independent audits at key third parties to obtain comfort over their control environment, build trust and ensure they can continue to support business operations.
to reduce the risk of compliance breaches and/or reputational damage caused by issues at significant third-parties, such as vendors, outsource providers and suppliers.
Forensics Implement robust global sanction and ethical supply chain processes and controls, leveraging technology and data monitoring.
Regulatory Compliance Conduct due diligence of suppliers, partners and vendors to ensure business relationships comply with expectations and agreements.
to adhere to company values, laws and regulations, and internal and external expectations on behaviour, including compliance with sanctions.
Forensics Build a robust framework and processes to help mitigate and respond to fraud, anti-bribery and corruption threats across the organisation.
to protect the company's reputation, reduce the risk of financial penalties and continue to operate in regulated sectors.
Internal Audit Assess workforce activities to help enhance or reinforce culture and behaviours, including workforce governance and compliance, accountability and monitoring.
to enhance brand and reputation, attract top talent and build trust with stakeholders through transparency, integrity and accountability.
Capital Projects & Infrastructure Embed compliance early in strategic projects to help ensure risks are seen and navigated to move quicker and deliver on project objectives (including ESG, cyber, workforce, and industry regulations).
Macro Risk Understand current and emerging regulatory and socioeconomic trends to ensure the company can navigate them for competitive advantage.
to enable compliance activities to help the business move faster and reinvent rather than slow down.
Enterprise Technology Integrate systems and data used for risk management, compliance and assurance activity to increase visibility, alignment and agility, and eliminate duplication.
Regulatory Compliance Review end-to-end compliance activities to focus, streamline and automate processes, including leveraging AI to collate, analyse, report and monitor regulation and compliance data.
to ensure compliance obligations can continue to be met whilst capturing other investment and growth opportunities.
Respond effectively sustainability issues
Demonstrate compliance with sustainability regulation
Optimise sustainability reporting controls
Deliver on sustainability goals
Embed effective sustainability strategy
Forensics Deploy technology-driven forensic intelligence and analytics to investigate and respond to sustainability matters, such as ‘greenwashing’.
Crisis & Resilience Help your leadership quickly respond to sustainability-related crisis, such as erroneous disclosure reporting and supply chain ethical issues.
to ensure the company can minimise disruption, maintain trust and emerge stronger from sustainability issues.
Enterprise Risk & Control Design, enhance and validate the effectiveness of controls that help mitigate sustainability risk throughout the supply chain, including at key vendors, to risk management, processes and controls to support business transformation.
Regulatory Compliance Perform testing to provide leadership and regulators with confidence in your company's adherence to relevant sustainability regulations across the world.
to maintain the trust of regulators, customers and other stakeholders and reduce the risk of financial or reputational loss.
Risk & Data Modelling Obtain trust in the assumptions, processes, systems and underlying data models used for sustainability reporting and decision-making.
Sustainability Risk Establish processes to ensure processes, systems and controls over reporting are effective and data is complete and accurate.
Capital Projects & Infrastructure Embed sustainability expertise in strategic projects to ensure their commercial objectives can be achieved whilst meeting the sustainability expectations of regulators, customers and other stakeholders.
Enterprise Risk & Control Transform systems and processes to incorporate efficient and effective sustainability controls and data, including decision-making processes during service/product development.
to ensure new products, services and strategic initiatives incorporate sustainability objectives to help maintain trust in the market, create value and deliver on commitments.
Sustainability Risk Design efficient and effective processes, systems and data to implement and operate sustainability activities, including metrics to monitor and report performance against commitments. Leverage managed services to standardise sustainability activities, incorporating the latest methodologies and technology to increase efficiency, optimise costs and deliver reliable reporting.
to build trust with customers and stakeholders and gain a competitive advantage in the market.
Risk & Data Modelling Use data-led models to help drive strategic decision-making on sustainability, including balancing costs and growth objectives.
Sustainability Risk Establish a sustainability governance framework to ensure that risks to achieving the strategy are understood and successfully managed.
to ensure activities are aligned with market and stakeholder expectations and support the company's goals.
Foster a safe workplace environment
Address misconduct
Mitigate workforce risks
Develop talent
Transform the HR function
Enhance workforce performance
Regulatory Compliance Plan and respond effectively to existing and emerging HR regulatory and legal obligations, including adherence to human rights and other ESG laws and regulations.
Internal Audit Evaluate and validate company workforce policies, processes and controls that help promote a safe workplace and protect employee rights, including HR, payroll, training and code of conduct related areas.
to protect employee rights, promote the right company culture, and motivate a high-performing workforce.
Cyber Leverage specialist security skills and tools to support the investigation and resolution of misconduct cases that involve misuse of company systems and data.
Forensics Build robust framework and processes around ethics and behaviours to help reinforce a culture of compliance across the organisation and investigate cases of suspected misconduct.
to enforce the code of conduct, foster the right culture, maintain employee and stakeholder trust, and reduce the risk of disruption and financial or reputational loss.
Enterprise Risk & Control Design, enhance and validate the effectiveness of controls that help mitigate workforce risks, such as HR evaluation and training processes, leadership and governance, and capacity and skill planning.
to comply with relevant laws and regulations, minimise disruption, attract and retain talent, and maintain employee and stakeholder trust.
Macro Risk Understand geopolitical, economic and regulatory challenges that can impact the company's workforce strategy so that it can be tailored to successfully navigate these threats.
AI Risk Implement and embed a robust AI governance framework to enable you to successfully adopt AI solutions to drive your workforce and talent activities.
to ensure the company has the right leadership and capabilities to support its strategic goals and navigate a changing market and industry eco-system.
Enterprise Risk & Controls Automate, integrate and streamline HR processes, controls and reporting, including ensuring HR compliance activities are efficient.
Trust & Transparency Provide comfort to stakeholders that HR transformation is appropriately governed, managed and monitored and can deliver successful transformation.
to deliver increased value to the business in relation to HR operations and talent capabilities and capacity.
Risk & Data Modelling Develop and enhance data and models used in workforce decision-making to help ensure the talent model supports business goals and transformation activities.
Enterprise Technology Implement technology and tailor HR processes to support workforce performance, leveraging IT partners for cutting-edge finance and HR solutions (including AI solutions).
to increase productivity and help achieve the company's financial and other strategic goals.
