Financial Risk Management

Dates:

• 26 - 30 January 2026 - London - (£2,850)

• 30 November - 4 December 2026 - London - (£2,850)

Course Outline

The management of risk is fundamental to the efficient and effective implementation of policy and programmes for all public and private sector organisations.  It is a key contributor to the ongoing success of an individual organisation’s strategy, business development and operations. In today’s global economy, it is a formal requirement underpinning international standards, corporate governance and quality assurance measures.

Financial risk has had its profile raised in recent years due to events in the international banking sector and major global events, including the pandemic and wars.  Organisations need to proportionally mitigate and be prepared for the financial impacts of both externally and internally generated risks.

This programme will deal with budgetary, trading, propriety, fiscal and treasury management risk, setting out the techniques for risk identification, assessment and mitigation within the context of the organisation’s overall risk management arrangements. We will examine the roles of managers, financial managers and internal and external audit in managing risk and the governance arrangements that support and enforce the management of risk.

Course Objectives: 

On completion, you will be able to:

• Review your organisation’s financial risk exposure
• Develop a sustainable financial risk management framework
• Help your organisation to become financially more robust

Key Topics

• Developing a financial risk management framework and risk strategy
• Identifying different aspects of financial risk to the business
• Risk management processes and the consequences of not undertaking proactive risk management
• How to deal with fraud and financial malpractice and means of avoiding them
• Examples of risk management reporting tools and techniques
• Identifying, analysing, mitigating, monitoring and controlling financial risks
• Managing risk in debt portfolios
• Managing investment risk
• Identifying and managing fiscal risk
• Project and programme risk