Are you interested in a career in finance?

Become a specialist in corporate finance, financial reporting, and accounting and start your career in multinational companies, financial institutions, public organisations, and governmental institutions. In addition, you can choose to specialise in audit and financial consulting.

The MSc Financial Management has a strong focus on the international aspects of corporate finance practices and academic research. Problems and topics and approached with a heavy emphasis on strategic thinking and innovation. You also get relatively more diversity with a broader multinational perspective on the fields of finance, accounting and management.

Become a financial expert with the skills and knowledge to analyse and solve complex financial problems encountered by companies, investors, governments and international organisations.

In the MSc Finance, you will dive deep into the world of finance, analyzing and evaluating real and complex financial problems faced by companies and institutions. You can also specialise in one of five profiles that make up this programme. These are General Finance, Corporate Finance, Investment & Risk Management, Sustainable Finance or Quantitative Finance.

Study courses in:

• Financial Management for Multinationals
• Financial Intermediation and Banking
• Financial Markets and Data Analysis
• Treasury and Risk Management

For a full course list see Ocasys.

Study courses in:

• Portfolio Theory
• Corporate Valuation
• Derivative Instruments
• Financing the Energy Transition
• Institutional Investment Management

For a full course list see Ocasys.

Possibility to follow electives or specialise in sustainability in finance; international banking and finance; the role of cross-country differences and the economic environment in explaining the global world as well as institutional and governance characteristics.

The programme has a strong focus on addressing relevant topics such as sustainability, energy, finance, and development. If you want to deepen your knowledge in these topics, you can choose to follow a Focus area in Energy, Sustainable Society or Finance and Development.

Study abroad by taking the Double Degree Master's with Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Milan, Italy.

Study abroad by taking the Double Degree Master's with Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) in Sweden.

The programme has a strong link with the corporate world. Real-life cases are used to teach how to approach problems in practice, and alumni are regularly invited to provide guest lectures about the current trends in the corporate world. Advisory board members who are also alumni, are frequently consulted to improve and assure the practical relevance of the programme.

The theory is put into practice with our many real-life investment games, business cases from companies and the opportunity to connect with future employers.

After this Master’s, you can work as:

• Financial manager
• Corporate finance consultant
• Internal or external financial consultant
• Financial or accounting controller
• Financial analyst
• Governance and compliance officer
• Audit trainee

After this Master’s, you can work as:

• (Sustainable) financial analyst
• Investment and asset manager
• Risk analyst
• Assistant corporate finance
• Impact investment analyst
• Consultant in finance
• Audit assistant
• Microfinance consultant
• Stock trading

Graduates are working in:

multinational companies, banks and other financial institutions, large and small accounting, auditing and consultancy firms, public organisations such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and Dutch Central Bank, and other governmental institutions.

Graduates are working in:

private (multinational) companies and financial institutions, consultancy firms, (international) institutional organisations such as the IMF, World Bank, ECB, etc. and governmental institutions.