Integrated Fraud Risk Management and Enterprise Risk Governance
Fraud risk increasingly intersects with operational, financial, compliance, cyber, procurement, third-party, reputational and governance risks.
Course overview
Fraud risk increasingly intersects with operational, financial, compliance, cyber, procurement, third-party, reputational and governance risks. Effective fraud prevention therefore requires more than isolated controls; it requires an integrated enterprise risk framework capable of identifying vulnerabilities, assessing exposure, strengthening preventive controls and ensuring appropriate escalation and accountability.
This five-day programme provides a structured approach to enterprise fraud risk management and governance, integrating fraud risk assessment with enterprise risk management, internal controls, governance, monitoring and incident response. Participants will examine how fraud risks emerge across business processes and how institutions can establish coordinated mechanisms for prevention, detection, investigation, reporting and remediation.
What you will be able to do
- Explain the relationship between fraud risk and enterprise risk management
- Identify internal and external fraud risks across organisational processes
- Conduct structured fraud risk assessments
- Develop fraud risk registers and risk profiles
- Assess inherent and residual fraud risk
- Evaluate preventive and detective controls
- Identify control weaknesses and risk concentrations
- Integrate fraud risk into enterprise governance frameworks
- Establish fraud monitoring and escalation mechanisms
- Develop fraud response and remediation frameworks
- Strengthen management accountability and control ownership
- Monitor emerging fraud risks and changing threat patterns
- Develop practical fraud risk governance frameworks
Who should attend
- Risk managers
- Internal auditors
- Fraud risk professionals
- Compliance officers
- AML/CFT professionals
- Corporate governance professionals
- Finance managers
- Procurement and operations managers
- Investigators
- Senior management
- Board and committee secretariat personnel
- Public-sector risk and control professionals
Course outline
Day 1Fraud Risk and Enterprise Governance
Understanding Fraud Risk
- Fraud concepts and classifications
- Internal and external fraud
- Occupational fraud
- Management fraud
- Procurement and payment fraud
- Digital and technology-enabled fraud
- Emerging fraud risks
Enterprise Risk Governance
- Enterprise risk management principles
- Governance structures
- Three-lines model
- Board and management responsibilities
- Risk ownership
- Risk appetite and tolerance
Fraud Risk Governance
- Fraud risk policies
- Fraud risk ownership
- Governance committees
- Reporting and escalation
- Accountability frameworks
- Fraud risk culture
Day 2Fraud Risk Assessment
Fraud Risk Identification
- Process-based risk identification
- Fraud scenarios
- Fraud drivers and opportunities
- Vulnerability assessment
- Internal and external threat factors
Fraud Risk Analysis
- Inherent risk
- Likelihood and impact
- Risk scoring
- Residual risk
- Risk prioritisation
- Fraud risk heat maps
Fraud Risk Registers
- Risk descriptions
- Root causes
- Existing controls
- Control effectiveness
- Risk owners
- Mitigation actions
- Monitoring indicators
Day 3Controls, Monitoring and Detection
Fraud Control Frameworks
- Preventive controls
- Detective controls
- Corrective controls
- Segregation of duties
- Approval controls
- Access controls
- Reconciliation controls
Fraud Monitoring
- Key risk indicators
- Transaction monitoring
- Exception reporting
- Control testing
- Data analytics
- Continuous monitoring
Control Weakness Analysis
- Control design deficiencies
- Control execution failures
- Management override
- Collusion
- Control circumvention
- Remediation
Day 4Fraud Response and Governance
Fraud Incident Management
- Fraud reporting
- Triage and escalation
- Initial assessment
- Investigation referral
- Evidence preservation
- Incident documentation
Investigation and Remediation
- Investigation governance
- Root-cause analysis
- Loss assessment
- Recovery
- Disciplinary and legal processes
- Control remediation
Enterprise Fraud Intelligence
- Fraud trend analysis
- Cross-business risk analysis
- Fraud typologies
- Emerging threats
- Management reporting
Day 5Governance, Reporting and Capstone
Fraud Risk Reporting
- Board reporting
- Management dashboards
- Fraud risk indicators
- Emerging-risk reporting
- Control effectiveness reporting
Building a Sustainable Fraud Risk Framework
- Fraud risk policy
- Governance model
- Risk assessment cycle
- Monitoring
- Assurance
- Continuous improvement
Capstone Exercise
- Participants develop an integrated enterprise fraud risk management framework, including risk assessment, controls, governance, monitoring and incident response
Dates & fees
Full training calendarFees are per participant in US dollars and cover tuition, course materials and your certificate. Travel and accommodation are not included.