Financy (WGEA) Stress Test
Stress Test Your WGEA Targets
Turn 2026 compliance into Credibility Currency. Identify your mandatory targets, pressure-test your culture committments, and secure the ROI on your actions.
The Risk is Public. Compliance is Critical. The Solution is Strategic Action & Amplification
By May 2026, every Australian employer with 500+ staff must publicly commit to three gender equality targets. For those with 100+ staff, the annual spotlight on your pay gap and culture is intensifying.
If your “Employer Say-So” (policy) doesn’t match your “Employee Reality” (culture), you aren’t just facing a regulatory reporting hurdle—you have a perception gap that equates to Reputation and Financial Risk.
What is the Financy (WGEA) Stress Test?
Our Stress Test is built on over a decade of gender equality advocacy and national progress benchmarking. It is a comprehensive WGEA Target audit, strategy and creative content package that transforms your data into a Verified Credibility Currency.
We move you from “Compliance Risk” to “Market Confidence” in three high-impact stages.
What you get!
The Stress Test Platform
Powered by the Financy Impacter tool, this engine pressure-tests your data against the 6 Gender Equality Indicators and the 19 Target Areas to reveal your Policy & Public Reputation Risk.
15-Minute Expert Video Call
A tactical session with a Financy expert to review your results and ensure your Targets are supported by defensible data and narrative.
Your Strategic Playbook
Dashboard visualisation, downloadable report for external uploads + Strategic Guide that identifies your 3 Mandatory WGEA Targets and calculates the financial ROI of your culture.
Creative Marketing Assets
A suite of Verified Credibility social media tiles to signal your commitment to talent, investors, and clients.
Customer experiences
100%
more focused spending on DEI initiatives
“Culture Comms and the diagnostics through (Financy) IMPACTER and Atlas, has given us a clearer focus for critical strategic decision making and communications. It’s also helped us in understanding a strategic objective in moving the dial on bigger impact progress by identifying the areas that both benefit our people and customers more broadly.
We have gone from spending $100k a year on a scattergun approach to DEI initiatives to a more effective approach where our spending is very strategic, data-backed, measurable and meaningful.”
“Bianca and the team at Financy have been amazing to work with. We have successfully implemented the WGEA Stress Test via the IMPACTER survey across our organisation and worked with the team on culture communications to help build on the foundational work we have down to ensure Bega Group is a more diverse, inclusive and equitable organisation for our team members, customers and community.”
“We recently ran NGS Super’s performance through the WGEA Stress Test via the IMPACTER tool to test how we’re pushing for more equity for our employees as well as the 115,000 Australians whose super savings we look after. On one hand, NGS outperformed benchmarks for diversity on our board, as well as equity in gender diversity, pay reporting, parenting, types of leave, employment opportunities, and of course superannuation. On the other hand, there is still space for us to continue to improve in terms of practices and strategies for improving equity overall.”
“The WGEA Stress Test via the IMPACTER tool provides a comprehensive one-stop dashboard across all three critical areas of DEI and addresses what I currently see in organisations, which is fragmented data and a lot of manual intervention required to consolidate.”
“We have found the WGEA Stress Test via the IMPACTER tool to be an unbelievably valuable tool.
The elements within the framework of Diversity, Inclusion and Equality are numerous and benchmarking your actual status (from an internal viewpoint) is nearly impossible. Within each DEI segment, there are sub-segments that require specific focus. I am still unclear as to how we would have been able to factually measure our progress in these areas without IMPACTER.
We now have clarity on the areas where we are underperforming which in turn has provided a clear focus for our actions. Not only do we have a set of actions for the short term but also the longer term.
IMPACTER has provided us with a cost effective resource to ensure that as s small business, we don’t just have good intentions, we are making them happen!
What's involved in your path to Cultural Credibility
The Profile
Set your baseline and identify your Value at Risk.
The Test
Run the Stress Test for WGEA and Gender Equality Indicator alignment. Bridge the gap between Employer say so and Employee experience.
The Results
Access your Dashboard, Recieve your Strategic Playbook, and be rewarded with your Social Media Assets.
Gender Equity & Inclusion Measurement & Reporting
For organisations with 500+ staff, the 2026 mandate requires you to select 3 specific targets from the official WGEA menu.
Our Stress Test pressure-tests your data across all 6 Gender Equality Indicators:
Includes: Leadership representation, Promotions, and Recruitment Pipeline.
Includes: Board composition and diversity targets
Includes: Closing the Pay Gap (Numeric), Pay Transparency, and Analysis.
Includes: Superannuation on leave, Flexible work ‘Default Bias,’ and Domestic Violence Support.
Includes: Mandatory annual employee engagement on gender equality.
Includes: Sexual Harassment monitoring, Trauma-informed support, and Prevention training.
Make informed business decisions driven by data
By leveraging the power of the Stress Test, business leaders and consultants understand where to focus their efforts and spend.
- Track your Gender Equity and Inclusion spending and decisions over time in line with your business financials
- Keep up to date with emerging trends and insights on Belonging and gender equality
- Stay ahead of your competitors on progress
Lead through Authentic Brand Performance
We specialise in the fusion of Impact Insights and Brand Communications and we're passionate about helping leaders be authentic in the actions they take and the communications they express.
- Improve the credibility of your brand in line with your gender equity and inclusion commitments
- Increase your employee engagement and retention
- Increase the spotlight on your business, for all the right social impact reasons
The Platform That Supports Impact!
Create, measure & track your DEI score
Centralise your DEI efforts with Impacter. We’ll help you understand your market position, how your team feel about DEI, and educate you on what’s required to improve your performance.
Intelligent & robust assessments developed by academics and DEI experts
Take the guess work out of your DEI efforts by taking the Impacter assessment and be rewarded with informed recommendations to build your Action Plan.
Compare your performance against the Best
By doing the Stress Test, you will see who the top 10 performers are and get to know what it takes to be amongst them.
Automated benchmarking of your Gender Equity position
Impacter allows for industry comparisons across many aspects of Workplace Gender Equity, including gender pay gaps, leadership and turnover rates.
Take action on compliance from a position of strength
The Stress Test allows for continuous monitoring and repeat pressure testing and actionable suggestions.
Be recognised for your impact with Culture Comms
News & Insights
Strategies to overcoming survey fatigue start with looking at leadership and organisation action.
Financy shares some of the more progressive, yet simple actions that global companies are taking on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Lauren Ryder the CEO of Leading Edge Global shares insights into some of the common DEI mistakes made by business leaders.
