Many persistent pandemic-related challenges will continue to be a primary focus for finance leaders over the next 12 months, along with new and emerging priorities. According to the results of Protiviti’s latest global finance trends survey, retail and CPG finance leaders identified security and privacy of data, enhanced data analytics, and process improvement to be top overall priorities. Also on the top overall priority list are challenges with regulators, global mobility and cloud-based applications that support finance activities.

In this report, we further discuss the key priorities that should be top of mind for retail and CPG finance leaders over the next year.