Financial Markets and Corporate Business

Description

The economy is rapidly digitizing, and it seems that there are no areas left that have avoided this global trend. Among the leaders is the financial industry, which has long been implementing digitalization: online banking, scoring models for risk assessment, crowdfunding, robotic investment advisors – all this allows to improve service at the user level and spurs business to expand the competence of employees. Today’s world is unpredictable, and rising risks are forcing financiers to better predict and be more cautious in managing them, and businesses need their expertise and experience more than ever to remain resilient and competitive. Finance professionals can bring their competencies to bear on ideas and opportunities in a variety of business areas. There will also be an increasing value in business connections, the ability to bring measurable value to an organization, to work remotely with virtual teams in the current environment, and to navigate the rapidly changing business landscape.  The educational program explores such areas as Islamic finance, financial technology (Fintech), capital markets, green finance, asset management and others. The aim of EP is to train specialists with professional competencies and entrepreneurial thinking, allowing them to work in the state, quasi-state and real sectors of the economy in the field of finance, ensuring their competitiveness in the labor market.

Skills

  • Technical skills and ethics, intelligence, creativity, digital skills, emotional intelligence, predictive skills, and customer service experience
  • Hard skills – proficiency in programming languages or IT skills
  • Soft skills – ability to build a team and communicate with the client
  • Personal skills – psychology, management coaching, time and project management
  • Professional skills (inclusion of disciplines for preparation for international professional certification CFA), etc

Professional profile

  • Banks and stock exchanges
  • Appraisal, leasing and insurance companies
  • Investment and pension funds
  • Audit and consulting companies
  • Financial departments of enterprises
  • Financial departments of akimats and treasuries
  • Customs authorities; tax inspection
  • Rating agencies
  • Personal business

Competitive advantages

  • Alternative in the choice of training trajectories
  • Inclusion in the curriculum of the preparation track for the CFA international professional certification courses
  • Involvement of certified professors
  • Availability of research projects in the direction of training in the field of finance
  • Use of business case study methodology in teaching

International and strategic partners

  • Narxoz University
  • Nishantashi University (Turkey)
  • Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Plekhanov Russian University of Economics”
  • International Financial Center “Astana”

Professional practice at the enterprises of the region

  • Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • State Revenue Department of Mangistau region
  • Second tier banks of Mangistau region
  • JSC Mangistaumunaigas
  • JSC “Lenmunaigas”
  • Karazhanbas Munai JSC
  • Kazmortransflot
  • SOFIE MED GROUPE LTD
  • Caspian Audit LLP

The PLP in Drafting Legislation, Regulation, and Policy has been offered by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies with considerable success since 2004.