India produces more than 200,000 MBAs a year and nearly 65,000 of them graduate in Finance. The recruiters have little to differentiate one from another in this huge crowd. Therefore, if you’re an MBA (Fin) student, you should certainly think how you will stand apart. Most of the other qualifications like CA, CFA, CS or those by SEBI etc., have become common for all Finance MBAs and you need to have something more. Indeed, all other qualifications in Finance focus on creating technical skills in a particular specialized area but none of them actually prepares you for managing Financial Services. In this scenario, you need to ask several questions on how you can really compete with other MBAs in Finance.

Through clearly superior skillsets? Through vaster and richer knowledge base? Through more comprehensive project experiences? Through a globally acceptable additional certification in Finance? What?

And then comes perhaps the most ruthless question – Is your MBA really giving you all of the above?

The honest answer is, perhaps – no. You not only need an additional certification in a specialized area of finance, but also demonstrate strong skill-sets (and not mere theoretical knowledge!) in key decision areas and tools of finance as they are practiced today.

Like measuring risks and deploying instruments and derivatives for managing them; accounting on US GAAP and FASB systems; valuation of assets and companies; designing complex investment solutions; managing treasury operations; devising merger & acquisition strategies; designing venture funding strategies; creating financial products.

FinStrong, Asia’s first advanced professional skills development program for Finance professionals, seeks to help you fill up the skills- and insights- gaps that threaten to undermine your professional performance potential and career growth. Packing in rigorous and action-soaked 10 days (80 hours) of workshops, reality-projects, gaming, presentations, domain-studies and learning-audits, FinStrong is spiked with the prestigious Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) Qualification by the internationally renowned American Certification Institute, USA. ACI is among the world’s largest professional bodies with over 10000 certification awards worldwide. All FinStrong participants become eligible for CHRP after qualifying prescribed examinations.

How is FinStrong Unique?

1. FinStrong embeds CFSP, which is India’s very first globally acceptable Certification program for Fresh MBAs in Finance.
2. FinStrong packs in 18 sharp modules – each focusing on developing a result- and performance-critical skillset. – at least 18 Finance skillsets in all.
3. FinStrong doesn’t take long. It’s just 80 hours and they are spread across 10 equi-spaced workshop days (usually one full-day workshop every week)
4. FinStrong comes with an assurance of learning outcomes. Six sophisticated tools are deployed to ensure absorption, retention and skill development.
5. FinStrong has 15 smart assessments built into it to help you monitor your learning, including the opening and closing tests.
6. FinStrong also includes 15-20 exercisers (called Tread-Mills) for practice

FinStrong Agenda

The Language of Finance
Financial Analytics
Financial Product/ Service Design & Tangiblization Techniques
Capital Costing & Structuring Skills
Risk Management Mechanics
Networking Skills for Financial Institutions
Asset Valuation Techniques
Buyouts, Mergers & Acquisitions
Managing Venture Operations
Fundamental Actuarial Techniques
Investment Analysis & Equity Research Techniques
Investment Banking
Corporate Finance Management
Treasury Operations
International Accounting and US GAAP Techniques
Forex Risk Management
Corporate & Retail Banking
Financial Consulting Techniques
Universal Banking & Fee-based Operations
Insurance Consulting
Public Finance Overview
IT Skills for Finance

To know more about FinStrong write to us at finstrong@skillroots.com