Our journey towards sustainability
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Introduction<br />
Understanding materiality<br />
7<br />
Engaging with<br />
our stakeholders<br />
<strong>Our</strong> stakeholder engagement process<br />
Introduction<br />
<strong>Our</strong> materiality assessment is a fundamental component of<br />
our <strong>sustainability</strong> <strong>journey</strong> — it establishes the most important<br />
issues for our stakeholders and informs what we report on.<br />
In previous years, the materiality analysis<br />
reflected our global organization. This year,<br />
to improve the reporting of issues that are<br />
material to the FS industry, we performed our<br />
first FS sector-specific assessment.<br />
How we group our issues<br />
Priority<br />
<strong>Our</strong> goal is to improve the accuracy and<br />
relevance of where our organization is taking<br />
action. The results are identified in the matrix<br />
on the following page.<br />
Critical issues to the FS industry and where EY can affect the most change<br />
We have focused the “<strong>Our</strong> clients” section of this report on the six topics that sit in the<br />
“Priority” box, which have the highest overall impact according to the aggregate score<br />
of stakeholder interest, importance to FS and future impact.<br />
Manage<br />
Followed GRI G4<br />
methodology<br />
Three categories:<br />
• Stakeholder interest<br />
• Impact to EY or<br />
FS industry<br />
• Future impact<br />
Identified topics<br />
through desktop<br />
research<br />
Top five issues ranked<br />
(0 = no impact<br />
5 = critical impact)<br />
Selected internal<br />
and external<br />
stakeholders<br />
Interviews were<br />
conducted<br />
<strong>Our</strong> communities <strong>Our</strong> people <strong>Our</strong> clients<br />
Issues with low or medium impact on the FS industry, but are vital to EY operations<br />
We are addressing the topics of “diversity and inclusiveness” and “attracting, developing<br />
and retaining talent” in the “<strong>Our</strong> people” section. “Community impact” and “financial<br />
inclusion” are covered in the “<strong>Our</strong> communities” section. “Client centricity” and “data<br />
privacy and security” are explained in the report Appendix and GRI Content Index.<br />
Methodology<br />
applied<br />
Topics were<br />
validated<br />
Materiality matrix<br />
produced<br />
Appendices<br />
Monitor<br />
Issues with low impact and low importance to the FS industry and EY<br />
Despite the low impact that EY has on the environment, it’s important for us to disclose<br />
our carbon emissions and to be consistent with leading practice reporting. This is<br />
important data that we monitor and is shared in the “<strong>Our</strong> communities” section.
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