ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Economics
Language(s) of instruction
French
Presentation
This program trains professionals in financial engineering and researchers specialized in this field.
Objectives
The objective of the Master 2 Financial Engineering (FMI) is to train specialists in advanced financial engineering techniques, prepared to integrate the global dimension of the problems to be dealt with and their strategic issues, and open to the international environment.
Know-how and skills
Targeted skills are:
- - with triple financial, legal and tax skills in order to master complex operations and arrangements, particularly equity techniques and their consequences on the bottom line;
- - prepared to integrate the global dimension of the financial problems to be dealt with in order to put them in perspective with the strategic environment of the company;
- - open to the international environment;
- - able to analyze the motivations of each stakeholder, to find partners to achieve the set objectives and to adapt its practice according to its role (analyst, consultant, banker...)
- - 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 out, private equity, mergers and acquisitions).
- - Sustainable financial management in the presence of uncertainty
This is a profile specializing in financial analysis and studies (of the market, risks, products, economic restructuring) aimed at implementing merger/acquisition operations, designing risk monitoring and analysis tools, and setting up and evaluating investment projects with an uncertain future (merger/acquisition advisor, financial risk manager, derivative product analyst, financial analyst, project finance, risk manager, etc.)
Thus, during the training, students obtain the following knowledge: In-depth financial analysis, econometrics, risk management, financial mathematics, economics of financial markets, accounting, taxation, banking law and regulations, market research, forecasting model, public offer, financial mathematical models for market operators, team coordination.
Organization
Special arrangements
Study and exam accommodations are possible for students with disabilities and/or high-level athletes.
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Program
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Your choice: 1 of 2
English for Finance 1
2 creditsSpanish 1
Theoretical econometrics
5 creditsMarket Finance
4 creditsMonetary and financial macroeconomics
3 creditsForecasting methods
5 creditsAlgorithms and Programming
3 creditsData mining and big data
Data warehouse
Economics of Bancassurance
3 credits
Your choice: 1 of 2
Financial English 2
2 creditsSpanish 2
2 credits
Introduction to stochastic calculus
4 creditsCorporate Finance
4 creditsIntroduction to SAS
2 creditsProject financing in Excel VBA
3 creditsTime series econometrics
5 creditsCorporate taxation
3 creditsTechnical analysis
2 creditsApplied econometrics project
5 creditsOptional
Merger-Scission-LBO-Bankruptcy-Restructuring
2 creditsQuantitative risk management
2 creditsFinancial markets and financial theory
2 creditsInvestment science
3 creditsPortfolio management under R
1 creditsInnovative financing operations
1 creditsFinancial analysis (Banque de France)
1 creditsAdvanced financial management "case study
2 creditsStochastic calculus
2 creditsTax optimization "Case studies
2 creditsAudit and control "case study
1 creditsEnglish for finance
1 creditsExploratory statistics (SAS)
1 creditsComputer techniques (VBA)
1 creditsInternational accounting (GAAP or IFRS)
2 creditsProject management and set-up
1 creditsPanel econometrics
2 creditsFinTechs, Block-Chain and Crypto-currencies
1 creditsBanking and insurance regulations
1 creditsStrategy and corporate governance
1 credits
And then
Professional integration
Job market opportunities or thesis pursuit
This master's degree is intended for professionals and leads to employment. A doctorate is possible, provided that the applied research thesis is of high quality.
This program is designed to train high-level executives for careers in banks, private equity (venture capital), audit and consulting firms, and large corporations.
Graduates of the Master 2 in Financial Engineering will work in the following professions: key account managers in retail banking, financial analysts in venture capital companies, merger and acquisition analysts in investment companies or corporate and investment banks, transaction services consultants in companies or auditing and consulting firms, and corporate finance management consultants.