Program Overview

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MBA Risk Control Compliance

Overview

The MBA Risk Control Compliance (RCC) program at ESAM enables students to become experts in risk management, control, and compliance, and to contribute to controlling the financial risks of companies with an international reach.

Admission

• Bac + 4 validated with 3 years of experience
• Bac + 5 validated

Competition

ESAM competition

Duration

1 year

Campus

• Paris
• Lyon

Professional Experiences

• Work-study & internship

International

• Seminar in London
• 50% of classes in English

Back to School Dates

October

Strengthen Your Strategic Potential

The crises follow one another and are not alike. Environments become disruptive and mutations accelerate. From geopolitical upheavals to customs barriers, from artificial intelligence to augmented humans, from social tensions to the integration of young talents, from "Carbon" companies to the green economy, companies, whatever their sector and size, have no choice but to be agile, adapt and take on new challenges.

In addition to this increasingly complex environment, there is the response of states with an increasingly demanding regulatory framework and very present supervisory authorities to:

• Ensure the financial stability and financing of economic players
• Promote the rules of living well together and protect citizens
• Restore trust

In this context, integrating the Risk Management, Control and Compliance professions means access functions that are becoming more and more strategic for companies. You will bring to the general management the knowledge of the risks and their financial impact, the assurance of their mastery as well as the identification and assessment of emerging risks thus making you real business partners for the company.

You integrate an innovative program organized into six blocks of complementary operational skills combining professional expertise and innovative soft skills including Wise Leadership and Dynamic thinking.

The Training Program

The MBA is Taught on the Paris and Lyon Campuses (50% of courses in English)

Compliance Fundamentals

• Understand past crises and anticipate future crises
• Banking / Insurance / Financial markets regulations
• Compliance requirements
• Corporate governance

Risks, Modeling, and Quantification

• Master financial products and strategies
• Risk typology
• Quantify market risks

Risk / Compliance and Financial Management

• Understand an accounting balance sheet, its financial challenges and limits
• Balance sheet management / Risk management / Hedging
• Cash management and digital revolution

Risk Management and Insurance

• Credit risk and Macro/ Microeconomics
• Risk Management and Information Technology system (including Cyber risk & Blockchain)
• Risk management and Insurability

Audit and Internal Control

• Credit risk and guarantee
• Identification of risks and surveillance zone
• Risk governance
• Risk transfer and insurance
• Cyber risk and financial security

Building Communication

• Challenges of financial and extra-financial communication
• Crisis communication
• Editorial workshops Compliance and Procedures

Intelligence & Professional Support

• Case studies
• Study trip to European regulatory bodies
• Conferences / debates
• Business English
• Mobilization of skills and Coaching Professional project

Two Professional Certifications

• Certificate of Professional Standards from IFACI (French Institute of Audit and Internal Control)
• AMF Certification (Financial Markets Authority)

Professions Prepared by the Risk Control Compliance MBA

• Risk expert
• Banking risk expert
• Internal control manager
• Compliance expert
• Director of Financial Control
• Internal Audit Director
• Credit analyst expert
• Ethics expert
• Functional Risk-Compliance Consultant

Stakeholders

French and foreign professionals, business experts, from the world of finance and corporate risk management.

Professionals from renowned professional associations including:

• IFACI (French Institute for Audit and Internal Control)
• AMRAE (Association for the Management of Risks and Insurance of the Company)

Anne COMBALOT CHAMBON, a graduate of Kedge Business School and the IAE of Aix en Provence, is Expert Referent MBA Risk Control Compliance, in charge of leading and keeping this program at the heart of professional news. She held important responsibilities in the audit of market activities, compliance and balance sheet management within JP Morgan and Crédit Commercial de France (HSBC France), in Paris and London.

The Strengths of the Training

1. Unconventional innovative pedagogy applied to Business Cases to understand the constraints of the company, to appropriate the complexity of the risks and to reflect on the limits of the models.
2. Study Tour (European institutions): meeting in the field with regulatory players to identify current and upcoming legislative issues in order to complete the regulatory watch put in place.
3. Crisis Day: Educational event to respond to the risk issues of a company and to exercise compliance, risk management and control responsibilities in a stressful situation.
4. Members of two professional associations: AMRAE (Association for the Management of Risks and Insurance of the Company),IFACI (French Institute of Audit and Internal Control).
5. Participation in AMRAE Risk Management Meetings and IFACI Monthly Conferences.
6. Conferences-debates led by students: an opportunity to share experiences and exchanges with experts in the profession.