Course description
ICA Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance
This leadership programme has been designed to sharpen the strategic skills of senior managers and those aspiring to hold the highest compliance positions within an organisation.
This expert qualification offers:
- Specialist knowledge - the highest level in the field
- Strategic thinking – helps your leadership ambitions
- Innovation - explores new ideas, best practice, and future developments from a global perspective
- Fellowship of ICA – become automatically eligible for the highest grade of membership
- Networking – grow with other like-minded, senior professionals.
Join hundreds of senior compliance professionals from over 50 countries who unlocked their leadership potential and improved their career growth opportunities with this qualification.
This course is awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester.
How and where can you study
The course takes 9-12 months to complete. It is a blend of online self-study, research, attendance at masterclasses and interaction with other like-minded, senior practitioners.
- Attendance at eight virtual masterclasses
- Seven virtual classrooms
- Oral assessment.
Delivered online
This course is delivered online with materials delivered for you to study in your own time and at your own pace. There will be eight 3-hour virtual masterclasses over four weekends and seven live virtual classrooms spread over the duration of the course.
Suitability - Who should attend?
The ICA Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance is a graduate level programme with a practical focus and is designed for those who are:
- Heads of Compliance, AML and Financial Crime Prevention
- Money Laundering Reporting Officers
- Money Laundering Prevention Officers
- Compliance, AML and Financial Crime Managers and senior staff
- Senior Risk staff
- Senior Internal and External Audit staff
- Company Secretaries
- Accountants
- Legal Practitioners
- Regulatory Representatives
- Anyone working in the above areas who aspires to be in a leadership role within an organisation
Entry requirements
In order to be eligible for the programme you should:
- Be a senior practitioner, e.g. hold a senior management role in AML / Compliance / Audit / Risk / Fraud / Operations or similar division with at least three years relevant experience; OR
- Possess an ICA Diploma and five years experience in a financial services or similar discipline and currently work within a job role that requires senior level responsibilities or, where currently not in such a role, you have the potential and experience to do so
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Certification
Practitioners who successfully complete the programme will be certificated as follows:
- ICA Certified Professional designation awarded by the ICA
- Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance awarded by ICA in association with University of Manchester Business School
- Fellowship of the ICA (upon application)
- Designation, ICA Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance: PG Dip (G.R.C.) Fellowship of ICA:FICA [E.g. Angela Watts PG Dip (G.R.C.), Certified Professional; FICA]
National Occupational Standards of Competence
Your performance on the programme will be measured, against the National Occupational Standards of Competence (2011 version) produced originally by the Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) and the ICA and revised recently by the Financial Skills Partnership.
The Standards are statements of competence which articulate the requirements for effective performance in the workplace. Competence is defined as a combination of skills as well as knowledge and understanding.
Training Course Content
The syllabus covers a variety of key issues relevant at a senior level and is designed to provide an insight into risks and potential hurdles faced by your organisation. The syllabus is delivered by an exclusive series of high profile masterclasses covering relevant topics.
- Building and leading a world class compliance team
- Strategic risk management for leaders
- Behavioural compliance: the role of psychology in culture and ethical behaviour
- Keeping up with emerging regulatory developments
- Governance, risk and compliance in the digital world
- Applying governance, conduct and outcomes for the benefit of the organisation
- Leading change in governance, risk and compliance
- Financial crime risk in the digital age.
Reviews
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The ICA professional programme is ideal for working professionals. The modular structure is job specific and can be directly applied to our daily work. I have reaped immediat...
The Masterclass series was the ideal way for a busy Head of AML to keep up to date, become certificated, find out about best practice in other organisations and to network exten...
Expenses
This ICA Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance is priced as follows:
- £8000 + VAT if applicable
Continuing Studies
Access to Master's Degrees
Holders of this qualification can apply for the MSc in Law, Governance, Risk and Compliance offered by the University of Law (studied via online-distance learning) as well as MPhil degrees offered by Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester. You may also receive Approved Prior Learning (APL) towards other university master’s degrees where there is overlap in course content.
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