MBA Risk Control Compliance

Program Overview

The MBA Risk Control Compliance program at ESAM prepares students to become experts in risk management, control, and compliance. Through innovative pedagogy, study tours, and professional associations, the program empowers graduates to effectively manage financial risks in international companies. Graduates can pursue careers as risk experts, compliance experts, internal control managers, and more.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The MBA Risk Control Compliance (RCC) program at ESAM aims to equip students with the expertise to become experts in risk management, control, and compliance. The program empowers graduates to effectively manage financial risks in companies operating internationally.

Outline:

Module Descriptions:

• Compliance Fundamentals:
• Understanding past and anticipating future crises
• Banking/Insurance/Financial market regulations
• Compliance requirements
• Corporate governance
• Risks, Modeling, and Quantification:
• Mastering financial products and strategies
• Risk typology
• Quantifying market risks
• Risk/Compliance and Financial Management:
• Understanding accounting balance sheets, 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 systems (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 communications
• Crisis communication
• Editorial workshops on compliance and procedures
• Intelligence & Professional Support:
• Case studies
• Study trip to European regulatory bodies
• Conferences/debates
• Business English

Teaching:

• Innovative pedagogy applied to business cases to analyze company constraints, risk complexities, and model limitations.
• Study Tour (European institutions) to meet regulatory players and identify legislative issues.
• Crisis Day: Educational event to manage risk issues and responsibilities in a stressful environment.
• Membership in professional associations: AMRAE (Association for the Management of Risks and Insurance of the Company), IFACI (French Institute of Audit and Internal Control).
• Participation in AMRAE Risk Management Meetings and IFACI Monthly Conferences.
• Conferences-debates led by students for experience sharing and exchange with experts.

Careers:

• 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