Financial Engineering (MBFA MENTION)

The aim of the Master 2 in Financial Engineering (IGF) is to train specialists in advanced financial engineering techniques, prepared to take on board the global dimension of the problems to be dealt with and their strategic stakes, and open to the international environment.

The targeted skills are :

• - with triple financial, legal and tax skills , to master complex transactions and set-ups, particularly equity techniques and their consequences on the bottom line;
• - prepared to integrate the global dimension of the financial issues to be dealt with, putting them into perspective with the company's strategic environment;
• - open to the international environment;
• - able to analyze the motivations of each stakeholder, find partners to achieve the set objectives and adapt his practice according to his role (analyst, consultant, banker, etc.).
• - operational in the practice of financial engineering techniques : in-depth financial analysis of companies and groups; valuation (companies, specific assets, projects); international risk management; structuring and analysis of equity transactions (leverage buy-outs, private equity, mergers and acquisitions).
• - Sustainable financial management in the face of uncertainty

This is a specialized profile in financial analysis and research (market, risk, product, economic restructuring) aimed at implementing merger/acquisition operations, designing risk monitoring and analysis tools, and setting up and evaluating investment projects in an uncertain future (merger/acquisition advisor, financial risk manager, derivatives analyst, financial analyst, project finance, risk manager, etc.).

During the course, students acquire the following skills: In-depth financial analysis, econometrics, risk management, financial mathematics, financial market economics, accounting, taxation, banking law and regulations, market research, forecasting models, takeover bids, financial mathematical models for market operators, team coordination.