Spreadsheet Control for Risk Management
NEW COURSE! Spreadsheets are a top 10 operational risk for most organizations. 70% of companies admit to having had a serious error. This course will equip participants with the skills to assess spreadsheet risk in their organization; implement an effective spreadsheet risk process; and build reliable business critical spreadsheets.
Instructor:
Adrian Maconick
Finsbury Solutions
Session Length:
4 Lessons, approx. 1 hour per week
Course Period: February 9 - March 8, 2021
Lessons Launch: Each Tuesday beginning February 9
Instructor Access: February 9 - March 15, 2021
Time:
Self-paced
About This Course |
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Spreadsheets are critical to the modern business world and are used in all industries and business functions. They are used in a range of activities including financial modelling, position keeping, accounting and pricing. Yet spreadsheets are responsible for a catalogue of errors. A regular stream of newspaper stories documents some of the larger multi-million-dollar errors. These are the tip of the iceberg.
70% of companies admit to having had a serious error. For organizations that operate a model risk process, around 60% of models can be on spreadsheets. This means that spreadsheet error is a top 10 operational risk for most financial institutions. Many organizations still do not have an effective spreadsheet management process, either not addressing the issue at all or running an unnecessarily bureaucratic process. This course will provide attendees with a detailed understanding of how to implement an effective spreadsheet management process.
Course Objectives
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Agenda |
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February 9
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Lesson 1 |
Regulatory & Business Background
- Examples of major spreadsheet errors and their background
- Legal and regulatory requirements
- Relationship to Model Risk
- The role of IT
- Exercise
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February 16
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Lesson 2 |
How to Develop Reliable Spreadsheets
- Best practice standards
- Five principles of clean spreadsheet design
- Hands-on session applied to best practice spreadsheet development
- Worked example
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February 23
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Lesson 3.1, 3.2
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Spreadsheet Strategy and Validation
- Strategy options
- Assess spreadsheet usage, current policy, and process
- Building an inventory
- Principles of validation
- Building quality
- Validation process
- Worked example
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March 2 |
Lesson 4 |
Implementing an Effective Spreadsheet Risk Process
- The main components of a spreadsheet risk control process.
- Developing an effective policy
- Change management – getting people to adopt the policy
- Core controls
- Spreadsheet process improvements
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Who Should Attend |
- Finance and risk professionals
- IT professions responsible for information security
- Financial institutions that use spreadsheets including banks, insurance companies, and other financial organizations
- Companies with a heavy reliance on spreadsheets
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About Our Expert |
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Adrian Maconick is a director of Finsbury Solutions responsible for product and consulting. He has over twenty years' experience in financial services and “big four” consulting. He specializes in finance, risk management, and model risk. Relevant experience includes:
- Operational roles in financial services, for example, as Head of Operations at the EBRD during a time of rapid transaction growth
- Validation of complex financial models, for example, the model validation for the first AAA derivatives vehicle in London
- Development of FBA a large scale risk and finance framework for financial institutions implemented at dozens of financial institutions
- Numerous spreadsheet automation projects in financial services
Adrian is a Chartered Accountant and has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge.
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Continued Risk Learning Credits: 4 |
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Registration |
Membership Type |
Price |
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Members |
$359 |
Non Member |
$399 |
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