Program objective: Foster specialists who able to operate efficiently in the finance and credit institutions that provide banking services to governmental agencies, which ensure security in the Russian Federation.
Professional skills: The qualified graduates should be able to ensure economic security of the state and society, entities and individuals, as well as valid and legal procedures in the economics area; provide judicial and expert support of court proceedings; prevent, detect and investigate wrongdoings in economic area; understand economic and socio-economic activities of entities, economic, financial, production and economic and analytical units at organizations, establishments, enterprises of various ownership forms, state and municipal authorities; conduct competitive intelligence; and deal with a range of AML/CFT-related issues, including relevant economic aspects.
The qualified specialists should be able to: conduct comprehensive performance analysis of governmental, industry-specific and corporate financial and economic units in order to detect threats to the national security of the Russian Federation (industries, enterprises); and identify, classify and thoroughly analyze any financial transactions that may be part of the preparation and/or commitment of financial or economic crimes.
Curriculum features: The qualified graduates will have all necessary competences to detect and assess threats to economic security of the state, certain industries, large companies and corporations, address the threats detected in the financial and economic areas, take proactive and preventive measures to eliminate corruption in state and municipal management bodies, combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. This is why the curriculum includes the following training courses: “Economic Security”; “Finance Law”; “Corporate Law”; “Judicial Expert Examination”; “Economic Analysis”; “Audit”; “Finance of Organizations”; “Basics of Financial Investigations”; “Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Extremism”; and “Information Resources in Financial Monitoring”. Furthermore, the program graduates acquire a wide spectrum of knowledge and skills, including advanced language competence and an insight into professional information and analytics software products.
The list of entities for graduate practice and employment: executive authorities (Federal Financial Monitoring Service, law enforcement agencies) and businesses (banking, leasing, insurance, jewelry, real estate and other companies).
