M2 Finance | Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering course

The "Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering" program , formerly known as "Finance - Corporate and Markets", is a generalist, dual-skill program designed to train high-level financial executives for a variety of finance-related positions in corporate finance departments, investment banks, management companies, private equity firms and consulting firms. The program is designed to meet the needs of companies looking for fast-start employees, as well as those of students wishing to move away from a strictly "business" specialization.

The dual focus on corporate and market finance provides students with excellent skills, enabling them to acquire the knowledge they need to analyze financial policies in line with a value-creation objective, while integrating the market logic essential to the complex environment in which companies operate.

The objectives of this course are to provide students with the knowledge they need to acquire the following skills:

• Implement an internal/external growth strategy
• Research and set up complex equity financing operations
• Draw up budgets and business plans, and implement cash flow management
• Manage, value and hedge financial asset portfolios
• Carry out company valuations as part of capital restructuring or disposals, mergers/acquisitions, LBOs and venture capital.

Students in the FEM program can also take the DESU Advanced Engineering and Corporate Finance, which, in addition to consolidating their knowledge of financial engineering and adding an international dimension, prepares them for AMF certification, as well as the BEST certification issued by the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce.

Career opportunities

• Administrative and Financial Director
• Management Controller
• Treasurer
• Business Manager
• Portfolio manager
• Credit and banking risk analyst

Master 2 Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering (60 credits)

Semester 3 M2 Finance Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering (FEM) (30 credits)

• Financial and tax environment (6 credits)
  • European and international taxation
  • International accounting standards
• Management systems and performance analysis (9 credits)
  • Management control
  • Euro / foreign currency cash management
  • Financial diagnosis of consolidated accounts
• Corporate financial strategy (6 credits)
  • Investment and financing strategies
  • Company valuation and disposal processes
• Financial markets and asset management (9 credits)
  • Securities and hybrid securities
  • Portfolio management
  • Financial strategies on derivative markets
  • Ethics and financial regulation
  • Additional UE
• Introduction to econometrics (0 credits)

Semester 4 M2 Finance Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering (30 credits)

• Financial engineering (6 credits)
  • Financing and structured products
  • Capital restructuring and financial innovations
• Research paper / internship or work-study assignment / oral presentation (24 credits)
  • Research methodology
  • Internship or work-study assignment and research work
  • Oral presentation

Who can apply?

Any student who has completed 60 ects, a core of essential knowledge in Law, Economics and Management, as well as general accounting, financial diagnostics, IT, business law and taxation.

How do I apply?

Admission is based on an application studied by a pedagogical committee, which checks that the student has sufficient knowledge of the fundamental tools of law, economics and management, and that his/her level is compatible with the objectives of the course.

Apply at the time of admissions on the dedicated platform.

The teaching team is made up of lecturers conducting research in the field of finance, and professional lecturers holding positions of responsibility in major companies (e.g. CFO of ALSTOM and ONET, CFO and Strategy Director of ORANGE, Associate Director of MBA Capital, etc.). These professional lecturers provide more than 2/3 of the course's teaching.

For the most part, courses are taught in the form of lectures, alternating between theory, case studies and real-life case files (individual and group work). Some courses can be taught as flipped classes, with documents and videos posted online before each session.

In addition to the completion and defense of a research project, the Master 2 final oral exam validates part of the skills acquired, based on subjects drawn at random and developed by the student. The jury is made up of the training supervisor and one or more members of the teaching team.

An internship of approximately 16 to 24 weeks is compulsory. A skills booklet is completed by the company tutor and the trainee at the end of the internship. The internship is followed by a report, which may be defended in the presence of the company tutor, the course tutor and the Master's supervisor.

This course is available in :

• Initial training
• Continuing education
• Work-study training: courses take place from Monday to Wednesday of the month from September to January, then on Mondays and Tuesdays in February - March (the other days of the week are spent at the company) and finally full-time at the company from early April to the end of September.
  
  Work-study programs are available under apprenticeship contracts with CFA Epure Méditerranée or under professionalization contracts.