Economics - Management

Financial Engineering (MBFA MENTION)

  • 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 credits
    • Spanish 1

  • Theoretical econometrics

    5 credits
  • Market Finance

    4 credits
  • Monetary and financial macroeconomics

    3 credits
  • Forecasting methods

    5 credits
  • Algorithms and Programming

    3 credits
  • Data mining and big data

  • Data warehouse

  • Economics of Bancassurance

    3 credits
  • Your choice: 1 of 2

    • Financial English 2

      2 credits
    • Spanish 2

      2 credits
  • Introduction to stochastic calculus

    4 credits
  • Corporate Finance

    4 credits
  • Introduction to SAS

    2 credits
  • Project financing in Excel VBA

    3 credits
  • Time series econometrics

    5 credits
  • Corporate taxation

    3 credits
  • Technical analysis

    2 credits
  • Applied econometrics project

    5 credits
  • Optional

    • UM Student Engagement

  • Merger-Scission-LBO-Bankruptcy-Restructuring

    2 credits
  • Quantitative risk management

    2 credits
  • Financial markets and financial theory

    2 credits
  • Investment science

    3 credits
  • Portfolio management under R

    1 credits
  • Innovative financing operations

    1 credits
  • Financial analysis (Banque de France)

    1 credits
  • Advanced financial management "case study

    2 credits
  • Stochastic calculus

    2 credits
  • Tax optimization "Case studies

    2 credits
  • Audit and control "case study

    1 credits
  • English for finance

    1 credits
  • Exploratory statistics (SAS)

    1 credits
  • Computer techniques (VBA)

    1 credits
  • International accounting (GAAP or IFRS)

    2 credits
  • Project management and set-up

    1 credits
  • Panel econometrics

    2 credits
  • FinTechs, Block-Chain and Crypto-currencies

    1 credits
  • Banking and insurance regulations

    1 credits
  • Strategy and corporate governance

    1 credits
  • Research seminars

Admission

Conditions of access

How to register

Registration is carried out during the registration period after a favourable opinion on a Master's degree application.

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Capacity

40 students in first year

30 students in second year

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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.

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