Risk Management Training

In the present time, often labelled as unprecedented, with the stress-test scenario for pandemics painfully and tragically among us, financial institutions could be tempted to perform the wrong kind of stress-tests. Yet fate has not decided to spare any bank of another scenario. Therefore, when the pre-pandemic scenarios need a strong update, it is critical to find out the risk post-pandemic scenarios.

In these unprecedented times, when former certainties are no longer so, it is key to keep the levels and standards of operations, and so is the priority. But any weakness in risk management is likely to come back during the recovery phase, if not even before.

Attend this webinar to learn how to set up a vendor responsibility review program. You will get the tools you need to review vendors on various key risk factors.

This course provides a systematic approach covering the fundamental steps needed to manage operational risks in banks and financial institutions. Based on the three-core approach to operational risk management, it expands into critical issues such as risk analysis, risk appetite, probability, impact, and risk mitigation processes. Because external events are an Operational Risk factor we take a brief look at the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) program training will guide attendees through the methods to train each segment of the bank’s or credit union’s employees annually on Bank Secrecy Act. It can be used as a “Train the Trainer” course or as annual training for all employees.

This training program will examine vendor/billing schemes that exploit payments process control weaknesses; latest electronic payments schemes (ACH hijacking, spear-phishing, social engineering); check counterfeiting, forgery and tampering schemes to be aware of; and, detecting common external payments schemes versus internal attacks.

Everyone in procurement needs to take time out to review how they are doing in getting the best service out of their vendors. Are they unknowingly putting their employer at increased risk by the way they transact business with vendors? Learn how to develop healthy business relationships with your vendors to get the best results for your company or agency. Discover tools you can use to maintain vendor quality standards.

This training will provide valuable knowledge on what companies need to do to establish an "effective" Compliance Office that leads to conceiving, developing and implementing successful GRC programs and provides top level coordinating leadership for governance, risk management and compliance issues across the enterprise.

Key Performance Indicators and Metrics provide your AP or Procurement operation with vital information that you can use to measure success and drive process improvement. In this webinar we will discuss how to create a culture of continuous improvement within your operation using metrics.

Information systems play a significant and static role in change adaptation and innovation. Procedures are operationally tailored, with processes linking to systems, and systems interfacing with various programs receiving objectives from the firm’s oversight committee through established reporting lines. Therefore, this presentation addresses information systems security issues regarding supply chain integration, coordination, and collaboration.

Sound management of operational risk is an integral part of strong governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and enterprise risk management. In this session, the instructor will define operational risk and explain how to identify, quantify, manage, and control it. He will discuss why all employees must be cognizant of these risks in their day to day jobs and how an organization can better manage and control these risks that have resulted in the failure of several high profile firms and significant losses and unwanted press at others. The course will also review and discuss the building blocks and key players in implementing an effective ORM program that is integrated into the enterprise risk management framework.

For external analysts, financial statements are a key source of information for getting an understanding of how risk a financial institution can be. Yet, still too many people are tempted to think that financial statements are designed to provide a true and fair view on risks. Do we know how much of the risks are genuinely communicated via financial statements?

This webinar will prepare participants to build a legislative and regulatory tracking process that monitors regulatory change, measures impact on business operations, and ensures the implementation of appropriate policy, training, and control updates.

An audit function should be thought of and managed as an independent business, including stakeholder analysis and feedback, setting objectives, developing necessary processes for managing resources and risks, measuring and improving performance, and even marketing to potential customers. This webinar covers topics specifically related to the audit system. How professional judgment and intent need consideration, auditing risks, and how entity life-cycles can affect audits are vital areas addressed during the webinar.

This webinar will cover creating of a value-added internal auditing program that is compliant to FDA cGMP/ Quality System Regulation and ISO 13485. It will include how to set up and manage the auditing system as well as how to conduct an internal audit and document the results and any nonconformities. It will discuss the value of a good internal auditing program.

After attending this training program, attendees will have a better understanding of the issues concerning the pricing of contractor delay damages. Contractors will gain knowledge about the various methods of calculating extended field office overhead costs. Owners will learn some contractual methods for predetermining this element of delay costs in order to prevent the need for end of the job audits or disputes over such costs.

You need to protect your information technology assets and information against unauthorized internal or external access and cyber-attacks. Data destruction, alteration, unavailability or breach of confidentiality are the consequences of such attacks. A primary step toward inventorying, assessing, and addressing cyber risks that threaten your organization is to develop and maintain a cyber risk management program as part of your enterprise risk management framework. This presentation will help in developing your organization's risk profile and decide the action plans to mitigate those risks.

This CAPA training program will provide an understanding of FDA and ISO requirements, steps in CAPA process and the challenges associated to root cause analysis. Attendees will learn the tools and quality data sources to use during root cause analysis investigation.

This training program will help articulate your business objectives and define the scope of your risk assessment. It will guide attendees in identifying the most appropriate risk assessment technique and plan and facilitate a risk assessment. Further, the session will help tailor a risk matrix to enable you to rate your risks.

This webinar will provide practical learning for implementing design thinking principles into your meeting management techniques. Learn how to facilitate interactive meetings which motivate teams to quick alignment. Understand how to “group” synthesized data for buy in from all parties.