The educational program “Financial Intelligence, Risk Management and Economic Security” was developed on the basis of professional standards “Risk Management Specialist” and “Financial Monitoring Specialist (in the field of countering the legalization of illegally acquired proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism), as well as taking into account the requirements of employers. The partner organization of the program is the Non-Profit Partnership Russian Risk Management Society (RusRisk).
The main goal of the program is to train specialists who can form a strategic integrated risk management system, maintain a risk level that ensures continuous economically safe operation and sustainable development of the organization and socio-economic systems at various levels of management, as well as identify business processes taking into account specific features of the sectors of the economy which are most at risk, signs uncommon for ordinary transactions, and work with confidential information.
The program is practice-oriented, specialists in risk management and economic security, control sphere as well as leading teachers at the Financial University are involved in the educational process.
The purpose of the concentration is to train highly qualified personnel for all spheres of the economy. Our graduates can identify events that may affect the activities of the organization and manage the risk associated with these events as well as control the absence of exceeding the maximum permissible level of risk of the organization and guarantee achieving the goals of the organization, maintain a level of risk that ensures the continuous operation and sustainable development of the organization, obtain the optimal result of the organization's activities, taking into account the risk for the founders, owners and other interested parties.
The concentration has an applied nature, allows students to acquire a set of professional knowledge and master skills for effective professional activity in the field of context determination, identification, risk analysis and development of measures to influence risk.
Our graduates work at structural divisions engaged in ensuring economic security at the macro and micro levels; economic, financial, marketing and analytical divisions and services of organizations of various forms of ownership, including law enforcement and other regulatory authorities, financial and credit organizations, state and municipal authorities, consulting, legal, audit and development companies. In addition, specialists of this concentration are in demand in analytical departments of law enforcement agencies that carry out expertise on economic and legal issues.
The concentration is aimed at training personnel for working in specialized departments in financial and credit organizations, specialized structural units to ensure the economic security of public authorities at all levels, municipalities, large companies and corporations, and other business entities, regardless of ownership and capitalization level, consulting, auditing, insurance companies, investment and leasing companies, organizations engaged in foreign economic activity and in other sectors of the economy, law enforcement and other regulatory bodies, expert institutions.
Our graduates are employed at structural divisions engaged in ensuring economic security at macro and micro levels; economic, financial, marketing and analytical divisions and services of organizations of various forms of ownership, including law enforcement and other regulatory authorities, financial and credit organizations, state and municipal authorities, consulting, legal, auditing and development companies. In addition, specialists of this concentration are in demand in analytical departments of law enforcement agencies that carry out expertise on economic and legal issues.
The professional activity of graduates who have mastered the bachelor's degree program includes working in expert analytical services (centers of economic analysis, public sector, public organizations), rating agencies, the financial sector (banks, non-bank credit organizations, microfinance organizations, payment system operators, management companies, investment funds, depositories, clearing organizations, organizers of trading on financial market, registrars, insurance companies, stock exchanges), consulting, IT industry, the real sector of the economy (industry, agriculture, communications and mass media, service and provision of services to the population, construction, healthcare, law, international trade, etc.), as well as in scientific and educational organizations.
Practice-oriented and project-based approaches using innovative educational technologies.
The program is implemented in constant interaction with employers, who conduct master classes, case championships, and field trips. The system of internships and employment promotions has been developed.
Emphasis on modern professional IT systems for collecting and analyzing financial and economic information of companies, individual segments of Russian and world markets. Students work in the BLOOMBERG International Financial Laboratory, as well as with all specialized information and analytical systems, including SPARK, FIRA PRO, Thomson Reuters Eikon, etc.
