Acting responsibly is critical to gain trust and to succeed in living up to our vision of creating a better future for millions of people. Our operations are distinguished by transparency, continuous dialogue and high ethical standards.
Trust is the cornerstone of our business as a company in the financial industry. Every - thing we do is built on our customers’, investors’ and society’s trust in our ability to act responsibly, transparently and with a long-term view. Being a responsible business is central to our sustainability work, and our operations are distinguished by transparency, continuous dialogue and high ethical standards
Our own environmental and climate impacts
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. In line with the Paris Agreement, we are working to limit and adapt our negative impact on the climate and to achieve net zero emissions by 2045 at the latest. As a financial company, our indirect impact on the climate is assessed as the biggest. We also recognize that our own direct climate impact is an important factor. Therefore, we actively work to reduce emissions from our operations and integrate sustainability into all aspects of our work.
Avanza is a resource-efficient organisation and our direct environmental impact is low. The head office is our only physical office and our business model means that we maintain contact with customers digitally or by phone. The aim is to reduce our direct emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 and run our office on 100 per cent renewable energy. As far as possible, we source renewable energy for our server rooms. Climate and environmental aspects are important to our supplier evaluations. Through our supplier code of conduct, we among other things strongly encourage suppliers to set science-based climate targets
Our employees
Our employees are the driving force behind our vision to create a better future for millions of people. We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of Swedish society, and as an employer we work actively with gender equality and strive for parity at every level of the company. We use a competence-based recruiting process but are also working to increase gender equality and diversity from several perspectives.
We have high engagement and a high recommendation score among our employees. The main reasons why Avanza is recommended as an employer are strongly tied to our corporate culture, where we feel pride and responsibility for Avanza, our products and our offering, and that there is a sense of freedom, variation and responsibility associated with our jobs. Having employees who are strong ambassadors is valuable as an employer. To ensure an attractive workplace and open dialogue on how we feel on our job, pulse surveys are conducted three times a year.
Gender is important in recruiting to create equality on teams, in management appointments and when analysing wages to ensure there are no gender pay gaps or differences in sick leave. Our annual workplace health survey contains a number of questions to systematically monitor gender equality, diversity and signs of harassment. The results are followed up by senior management and HR, and every manager is responsible for reviewing their team’s results. At this point, we have more male than female employees, but the ratio is better at the management level. In IT/Tech, women are still underrepresented, and we are working actively to broaden the range of candidates in our recruiting.
To attract new talent, we host various events and activities such as IGEday and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, to increase interest in engineering among young women. We also collaborate with “Girls Code”. Avanza was included in the AllBright Report’s “Green List” of Swedish companies ranked by gender equality; the list consists of 67 publicly listed companies. To increase diversity among our employees, we have also worked for many years with companies that assist people with disabilities or from other backgrounds that make it difficult to gain a foothold in the job market.
