Master in Financial Management
- Professional
- Part Time
- 60 ECTS
- OCT. 2025 - 12 months
Presentation
This master's degree is taught in SPANISH
The success of any project or organization is based on an optimal financial strategy. The Master in Financial Management of EAE Business School Madrid equips you with the tools required to achieve this. Through a combination of traditional knowledge, such as the balanced scorecard and hedging instruments, and insight into the most innovative advances in the field, such as Fintech, blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
With a practical methodology based on case studies, you will be able to resolve the real situations faced by a Financial Manager. You will gain insight into the reality of the business world and meet other professionals in the sector, who will enable you to expand your network of contacts.
The Master in Financial Management will give you the boost you need for your professional development, equipping you with the knowledge, skills and tools required to lead any project or organization successfully.
MASTER DEGREE
On successful completion of your program, you will receive a double qualification: the Master in Financial Management from EAE Business School and Master in Financial Management by the Universidad Internacional de la Empresa (UNIE)
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Reasons to take this master
- Data and Technology Economy: Technological innovations and data analysis are becoming extremely important assets in a company. With this in mind, you will gain knowledge in innovative techniques and big data, as well as learning how to apply them in the world of finance.
- Financial Critical Thinking: By working on real practical case studies, you will gain a completely practical perspective that will enable you to develop your critical thinking and high-impact financial decision-making skills
- Management and action: You will acquire the skills required to make decisions with a leadership mindset and achieve the set objectives.
- Refinitiv Workspace: During the course of the Master you will have the opportunity to visualize the financial and macroeconomic information platform Refinitiv Workspace (former Reuters). Students who wish to do so will be able to take the certifications in the use of the platform, which are highly recognized in the financial sector.
- Transformation for the Future: You will develop the skills required to transform key business areas and gain one of the professional profiles in the highest demand on the labour market.
- True Potential Experience: Enjoy an experience that combines the Master in Financial Management with a Personalized Professional Development Plan, guided by a True Potential Advisor, who will help you find, focus and develop your true potential.
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Syllabus
Analysis of the Financial Statements - 6 ECTS
- Introduction.
- Annual accounts.
- Analysis of the balance sheet.
- Analysis of the profit and loss statement.
- Profitability, self-financing and growth.
- Analysis of the operational financing needs and working capital requirements.
- Short- and long-term financing
- Credit management.
Business Risk Management - 6 ECTS
- Introduction.
- Types of risks
- Corporate governance and compliance.
- Prevention of money laundering and funding terrorism.
- Criminal risk prevention.
- Stock market regulations (MiFID II).
- Spanish taxation framework (Income Tax, Corporation Tax, Tobin tax, etc.).
- Taxation of financial operations.
Working Capital Management - 6 ECTS
- Introduction to cash management.
- Cash budget: a key factor in the success of the company’s management.
- Cash management and its relationship with other areas of control in the company.
- Cash conversion cycle.
- Short- and long-term financial planning.
- Self-financing.
- Cost control and management control.
- KPIs. Designing the financial dashboard.
- Investment budget and asset replacement.
Financial Planning and Investment Analysis - 6 ECTS
- Concept and types of investment.
- The flows of an investment project.
- Evaluation methods.
- WACC and inflation.
- Risk management.
- Project finance.
Financial Risk Management - 6 ECTS
- Fixed income market.
- Variable income market.
- Active and passive management.
- Interest rate risk.
- Exchange rate risk.
- Other financial risks.
- Coverage and speculation.
Company valuation - 6 ECTS
- Phases of an acquisition/sale or merger process.
- Valuation methods (multiples, discounted cash flow, options).
- Residual or ongoing value.
- Startup valuation.
- Implementation of the Balanced Scorecard.
- Implementing the strategy and aligning operations with it.
Portfolio management - 6 ECTS
- Risk and yield framework.
- Efficient capital markets.
- Portfolio theory.
- Asset allocation process.
- Measuring and attributing results.
- Informing clients of performance.
Big Data in the Financial Sector - 6 ECTS
- Big Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Introduction and concepts
- Technological architectures for process large amounts of information (NoSQL databases, Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, etc.)
- Steps in the data analysis process. Data extraction, transformation and loading.
- Machine Learning models for classification and prediction (Regression, Decision Trees, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, etc.) and associated metrics.
- Understanding the levers of transformation of the financial sector.
- The new regulations and their application in the financial sector.
- Designing business models.
- Developing fintech projects
Master’s Thesis - 12 ECTS
Minors
Minors are elective courses that enable you to personalize your Master and build a study program tht has the scope for new disciplines aligned with your profesional interest and goals. They act as real communication links that enable you to explore other areas of knowledge and connect them to yours. Minors multiply your opportunities for networking and expand your professional horizons. The range of Minors on offer varies depending on the intake and campus.
Choose between:
- Application of AI in Business
- Stategy and Data Analytics
- Fintech: Technology for Finance
- Marketing automation and marketing intelligence
- Neuromarketing
- Digital Marketing
- Sales management Innovation
- Sustainability: Strategies and Opportunities
- Scalling Up: Strategies for business growth management
- Project management techniques
- Corporate Wellbeing: Leading Wellbeing Strategies
- Business Agility
- Leadership: Team development techniques
Explore new areas of knowledge and boost your employability by acquiring the competencies in the highest demand.
3 Territories to conquer
1. Global Strategy
You will gain a command of both financing techniques and sources with the aim of leading and developing the financial strategy in order to achieve the set objectives.
2. Innovative Trends
You will digitally transform traditional businesses and adapt them to the most innovative technologies within the financial sector. Moreover, you will gain insight into the management of fintech companies, risk hedging and valuations
3. Leadership in organizations
You will develop the skills required to lead an international organization, including teamwork, communication, motivation, business ethics and CSR.
Faculty
Francisco Puértolas
Director od the Master in Financial Management. D. in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Acceso y salidas profesionales
The knowledge and skills you acquire here and now will have a real impact on your professional life. Start imagining this bright future and take a look at some of the professional opportunities that await you:
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Financial and Accounting Director
- Financial Controller
- Audit Manager
- Director of Risks in banking and insurance firms
- Director of Investment Analysis and Management
- The previous training of the students of this master's degree usually comes from undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics, business management, accounting and finance. Additionally, graduates of a more scientific nature, such as engineering, or related to law, take this master's degree, as a consequence of their professional development having inclined them towards these specialties in the business world.
- It is aimed at interested people who wish to deepen their knowledge in financial and control areas, as well as to acquire the knowledge generated by new technologies (big data and Fintech). It is recommended that they have some experience in the areas of finance/control, working either in companies in the real sector of the economy (production and/or distribution), services (auditing, consulting, ...) or in the financial sector (banks, investment funds, ...).
- A university degree in Economics, Business, Engineering and/or Legal Sciences is required.
True Potential Experience
At EAE Business School Madrid, we know that are all born with something that, if you discover and nurture it in time, can make all the difference in your professional career.
With this in mind, EAE Madrid offers you the True Potential Experience: an experience that combines our Master in Financial Management Personalized Professional Development Plan.
With True Potential Experience, we want to give you more than just a top-quality education. We want to give you the opportunity to discover your true potential and make it a reality.
Employment report
Where our students work
Our students on EAE’s Master in Financial Management work in leading companies, such as:
Financial Support
At EAE Business School Madrid, we offer financial support to all the candidates on EAE programs.
EAE Business School grants
Achieving excellence in your studies requires a large dose of energy and perseverance. We like to think that we can offer an extra motivation for students who are working at the highest level. The Academic Excellence grant is awarded to candidates who have displayed extraordinary performance and can accredit an average score on their academic record of over 9.5.
We strive to increase the presence of women in executive positions and promote gender equality in the labour market Over 40% of our students are women, many of whom combine their studies with their professional and personal lives. We want to reward their efforts with this grant, which takes their academic report into consideration, but also their executive potential, leadership capacity and professional background.
Launching an entrepreneurial venture is an exciting journey that requires preparation, the capacity for sacrifice and creativity. We aim to foster entrepreneurial spirit and great business ideas with a grant awarded to directors of SMEs, self-employed professionals and people with their own business project. To be eligible to apply for the grant, the Master candidates must have created a company in the same year.
We are certain that, to achieve a fairer, more participative society, we have to run initiatives designed to foster the talent of people with a disability. With this in mind, we have created a grant for the Master in Marketing and Sales Management that is awarded to the candidate with an accredited disability of at least 33% who has the best academic record.
(Fully covers all training-related expenses during their attendance on international programs).
In the global world in which we now live, it is important to discover new cultures that enable us to enhance our competencies. With this in mind, we offer a grant to students whose program includes an international mobility option on its syllabus (programs that offer students an optional residential program abroad). This grant covers the cost of enrolling at the destination university.
Other ways of financing the master
There are other sources of financial support for studying offered by different institutions and organizations, to which you also have access.
The grants offered by the MAEC (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation) and the AECID (International Cooperation Agency for Development) offer the opportunity to take this Master to young and foreign university students who choose to round off their studies in a Spanish university or educational institution. The grants are aimed at candidates with university qualification (and final-year students in some cases).
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