To work in finance, we recommend that you have either 3 or 5 years’ higher education. Depending on the position you want and your desire to move up the career ladder, you will need to choose the most appropriate career path.

INSEEC’s Bachelor’s degree in Finance opens up a wide range of prospects and enables students to aspire to positions of responsibility as soon as they finish their course. A Bachelor’s degree will enable you to be immediately operational when you take up a new position, or to continue on to a Master’s degree in a business school like INSEEC. There are many specialisations in Finance, offering a wide choice of future careers.

The Omnes Education Group’s INSEEC school offers a range of finance courses to enable students to train and specialise in this field.

The Bachelor’s programme, from Bac to Bac+3, has several specialisations in finance:

• Finance;
• Real Estate & Finance;
• Financial Products, Real Estate & Insurance;
• Management & Gestion.
• The BBA programme, from Bac to Bac+4, offers a specialisation in finance with an international outlook:
• International Finance major.
• The Grande Ecole programme, from Bac+2 to Bac+5, also offers a wide choice of finance courses:
• Corporate finance and risk;
• Finance, audit and control;
• Finance for 21st century practitioners.
• The MSc programme, from Bac+4 to Bac+5, offers a wide choice of specialisations:
• Business Law, Consulting & Management ;
• Banking Digitalisation & Financial Manager;
• International Financial Analysis;
• Investment Banking & Financial Engineering;
• Risk Management, Control & Compliance;
• Corporate Finance & Financial Engineering;
• International Financial Analyst;
• Audit & Management Control;
• Financial Markets & Trading.

The courses are designed to enable students to master all the concepts of accounting, auditing, management control, management and taxation. As some of our courses can be taken on a sandwich basis, students will be able to add a real professional dimension to their training and bring to their course all the skills they need to work in a company.

After completing a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, students will be eligible for a wide range of careers:

• As a customer adviser in a bank, you manage several hundred customers. Their primary task is to develop the customer portfolio in order to achieve the sales targets set for them. This can be a technical role, for example when preparing credit authorisation applications.
• As a financial analyst, you have major responsibilities. Attentive to the health and growth of one or more companies, their job is to anticipate possible developments in order to provide the best possible advice on investments to be made or products to be developed.
• As management controllers, their attention is constantly focused on the company’s budgets. They draw up budget forecasts and the tools needed to monitor the various results.
• As an insurance broker, he is responsible for negotiating different types of contracts on behalf of his clients and acts as an intermediary. Their aim is to find the most competitive policy to meet their customers’ needs.
• An asset manager specialising in tailor-made investments, the asset manager is constantly on the lookout for the most appropriate solutions for his clients and their needs. Their aim is to optimise their clients’ assets.
• The accountant plays an essential role in any organisation. They record all the company’s expenditure, income and investments. Accountants may specialise in different areas.
• Payroll managers are responsible for collecting, analysing and processing the various items of information on a company’s employees in order to draw up their remuneration and pay slips.

This list is not exhaustive, but it gives an initial idea of all the possible opportunities. By continuing on to a Master’s degree, future professionals will see this list broaden and offer even more prospects.

Salaries after a Bachelor’s degree in Finance will start at €28,000 gross per year. However, salaries are variable. It will depend on the position and the sector in which the graduate is going to work, as well as possible negotiations at the time of hiring.

The salary will be higher if the student has a Master’s degree. This will enable them to claim a higher bonus. Thanks to their level of qualification, but also their experience and time, future professionals will be able to aspire to managerial positions, which will enable them to gain not only in responsibility but also in remuneration.

Starting salaries are negotiable, depending on your profile, career path, experience and level of qualification.