About this Event
The Enterprise Risk Management Frameworks Training Course by Geneva Institute of Business Management provides a structured approach to identifying, assessing, monitoring, and managing risks across organisations. The programme explores how effective enterprise risk management frameworks support corporate governance, strategic decision-making, financial stability, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and long-term business performance.
The course examines risk governance, risk ownership, assessment methodologies, reporting processes, and mitigation strategies. It highlights how organisations can integrate risk management into corporate strategy and daily operations while establishing clear accountability across departments.
Within the category, the programme focuses on financial exposure, capital management, financial controls, liquidity considerations, investment decisions, and risk-based resource allocation. Participants develop an understanding of how structured risk frameworks can strengthen financial oversight, improve organisational resilience, and support informed business decisions.
Objectives
The Enterprise Risk Management Frameworks Training Course is designed to enable participants to:
Understand Enterprise Risk Management Frameworks
Develop a structured understanding of enterprise risk management frameworks and their role in establishing consistent approaches to identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting organisational risks.
Strengthen Risk Governance
Understand how risk governance structures establish accountability, decision rights, oversight responsibilities, escalation channels, and reporting relationships across boards, executives, risk functions, and operational teams.
Support Effective ERM Implementation
Develop an informed approach to ERM implementation by understanding the organisational requirements, governance structures, policies, processes, roles, responsibilities, and reporting mechanisms required for sustainable implementation.
Integrate Risk With Business Strategy
Understand how enterprise risk management can be connected with strategic planning, operational priorities, financial decisions, performance management, investment considerations, and organisational objectives.
Improve Risk Identification and Assessment
Apply structured approaches to identifying emerging, strategic, financial, operational, compliance, technology, reputational, and other material risks affecting organisational performance.
Develop Risk Appetite and Tolerance Structures
Understand how organisations can establish risk appetite, risk tolerance, escalation thresholds, and decision-making parameters that guide management responses to different levels of exposure.
Establish Risk Mitigation Approaches
Develop a structured understanding of risk response options and how a risk mitigation framework can support control improvement, exposure reduction, risk transfer, risk acceptance, and risk avoidance.
Strengthen Risk Reporting
Understand how risk information can be transformed into clear management and executive reporting that supports timely decisions, prioritisation, escalation, and organisational oversight.
Improve Risk Monitoring
Examine methods for monitoring changing risk conditions, control performance, risk indicators, emerging threats, and the effectiveness of mitigation measures.
Support Organisational Resilience
Understand how integrated risk management can strengthen preparedness, business continuity, decision-making, financial resilience, and the organisation’s ability to respond to changing internal and external conditions.
Enhance Risk-Based Decision Making
Develop an understanding of how risk information can be incorporated into strategic and operational decisions to improve resource allocation, financial planning, investments, projects, and organisational performance.
Promote Consistent Risk Practices
Understand how common methodologies, policies, terminology, reporting structures, and accountability mechanisms can create greater consistency across business units and organisational functions.
Target Audience
The Enterprise Risk Management Frameworks Training Course is designed for professionals responsible for enterprise risk, governance, finance, accounting, compliance, internal control, audit, strategy, operations, and corporate performance.
Risk and Governance Professionals
Risk managers, enterprise risk professionals, risk analysts, governance specialists, and professionals responsible for developing or maintaining organisational risk frameworks can use the programme to strengthen their understanding of integrated risk management.
Finance and Accounting Professionals
Finance managers, accountants, financial controllers, treasury professionals, financial analysts, and senior finance personnel can develop greater awareness of how enterprise risk affects financial decisions, controls, reporting, resource allocation, and organisational stability.
Internal Audit and Compliance Professionals
Internal auditors, compliance managers, regulatory professionals, and control specialists can strengthen their understanding of how enterprise risk management connects with governance, control environments, risk reporting, and organisational oversight.
Senior Management
Executives, directors, department heads, business leaders, and senior managers can gain a structured perspective on risk-based decision-making, accountability, risk appetite, mitigation, and enterprise-wide risk oversight.
Strategy and Business Planning Professionals
Strategic planning professionals, business transformation teams, corporate development professionals, and organisational performance specialists can examine how risk information can be integrated into strategic planning and business decision-making.
Operational Leaders
Operations managers and functional leaders can develop greater awareness of their responsibilities within enterprise risk management and understand how operational risks should be identified, assessed, escalated, monitored, and managed.
Corporate Governance Professionals
Professionals supporting boards, executive committees, governance functions, and corporate oversight processes can develop a stronger understanding of risk governance structures and enterprise-level accountability.
Modules
Module 1: Foundations of Enterprise Risk Management
- Principles and purpose of enterprise risk management
- Role of enterprise risk management in modern organisations
- Enterprise-wide versus function-specific risk management
- Relationship between risk, strategy, performance, and objectives
- Core components of enterprise risk management frameworks
- Risk management as a corporate governance responsibility
- Creating a consistent organisational approach to risk
Module 2: Enterprise Risk Management Framework Structures
- Components of an enterprise risk management framework
- Framework design principles
- Risk management policies and standards
- Risk management processes and operating models
- Roles and responsibilities within the framework
- Risk ownership and accountability
- Integration across business functions
- Framework documentation and maintenance
Module 3: Risk Governance and Accountability
- Principles of effective risk governance
- Board and executive responsibilities
- Management accountability for organisational risk
- Risk committees and governance structures
- Three lines of responsibility
- Risk escalation and decision authority
- Governance reporting requirements
- Creating transparent risk accountability
Module 4: ERM Implementation
- Principles of ERM implementation
- Assessing organisational readiness
- Establishing implementation priorities
- Defining roles and responsibilities
- Developing risk policies and procedures
- Integrating ERM with existing business processes
- Building organisational risk awareness
- Managing implementation challenges
- Monitoring implementation progress
- Sustaining enterprise risk management practices
Module 5: Risk Identification and Classification
- Strategic risk identification
- Financial risk identification
- Operational risk identification
- Compliance and regulatory risk
- Technology and information risk
- Cyber and data-related risk
- Reputational and stakeholder risk
- Emerging risk identification
- Interdependencies between organisational risks
- Developing comprehensive risk inventories
Module 6: Risk Assessment and Prioritisation
- Risk assessment principles
- Likelihood and impact assessment
- Inherent and residual risk
- Risk scoring methodologies
- Risk prioritisation
- Risk heat maps and risk matrices
- Assessment consistency across business units
- Materiality considerations
- Scenario-based risk assessment
- Escalating significant risk exposures
Module 7: Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance
- Principles of risk appetite
- Establishing organisational risk appetite
- Risk tolerance and threshold development
- Connecting risk appetite with corporate strategy
- Management decision-making within risk boundaries
- Risk appetite statements
- Escalation requirements for tolerance breaches
- Monitoring risk appetite alignment
- Communicating risk appetite across the organisation
Module 8: Developing a Risk Mitigation Framework
- Principles of risk mitigation
- Risk response strategies
- Risk reduction and control enhancement
- Risk transfer and risk sharing
- Risk acceptance within defined parameters
- Risk avoidance
- Selecting proportionate mitigation measures
- Assigning mitigation ownership
- Setting mitigation timelines
- Monitoring mitigation effectiveness
Module 9: Financial Risk and Enterprise Risk Management
- Financial risk within enterprise risk management
- Liquidity and cash flow considerations
- Credit and counterparty exposure
- Market and investment risk
- Capital and funding considerations
- Financial controls and risk exposure
- Risk-adjusted financial decision-making
- Financial reporting and risk information
- Connecting finance functions with enterprise risk governance
Module 10: Risk Controls and Control Effectiveness
- Internal control principles
- Relationship between controls and risk exposure
- Preventive and detective controls
- Control ownership
- Control assessment
- Control weaknesses and remediation
- Monitoring control performance
- Linking controls with material organisational risks
- Strengthening control environments
Module 11: Risk Reporting and Executive Communication
- Principles of effective risk reporting
- Risk dashboards and management reporting
- Key risk indicators
- Risk escalation reports
- Executive-level risk information
- Board-level reporting
- Reporting emerging risks
- Communicating material changes in risk exposure
- Turning risk information into actionable management insight
Module 12: Risk Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
- Continuous risk monitoring
- Tracking changes in risk exposure
- Monitoring key risk indicators
- Reviewing mitigation actions
- Identifying emerging risks
- Framework performance assessment
- Periodic risk reviews
- Lessons learned and framework improvement
- Updating policies and methodologies
- Maintaining long-term ERM effectiveness
Module 13: Strategic Integration and Organisational Resilience
- Integrating risk management with strategic planning
- Risk considerations in business decisions
- Risk management and organisational performance
- Resilience planning
- Business continuity considerations
- Crisis and disruption preparedness
- Scenario analysis
- Strategic response to emerging threats
- Building sustainable organisational resilience
Module 14: Enterprise Risk Management Framework Review
- Evaluating framework effectiveness
- Reviewing governance arrangements
- Assessing risk ownership
- Reviewing risk assessment methodologies
- Evaluating mitigation effectiveness
- Assessing reporting and escalation processes
- Identifying framework gaps
- Strengthening accountability
- Establishing improvement priorities
- Maintaining alignment with organisational objectives
Event venue & nearby stays
Geneva Institute of Business Management (GIBM), Businesspoint CFF, Geneva, Switzerland
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