Everything you need to break into, or excel within, investment banking. This program trains you in financial modelling, slide design, deal structuring, and the precise, high-pressure execution that top banks demand.
You will learn DCFs, LBOs, merger models, strategic decks, and the formatting and logic standards used at leading institutions. Work through real cases and receive graded feedback from senior professionals.
How capital markets, trading desks, and alternative strategies actually operate, taught through case studies and applied analysis.
Valuation projects that combine corporate finance and competitive strategy, before negotiations with the counterparties.
Practical skills, not just theory: build the model for a hypothetical client, run the sensitivities, and present the conclusions.
Every student at Swiss Finance Academy gains access to a purpose-built learning platform. Inside your portal, you will find the full course structure, assignments, progress tracking, and direct channels for feedback.
Progress Dashboard. Track your completion across technical modules, case studies, and live assignments.
Feedback System. Get detailed input from instructors and mentors on case submissions and execution quality.
Peer Access. Connect with your cohort, ask questions, share insights, and build a network inside the platform.
Swiss Finance Academy is headquartered and administered in Switzerland. Programs are delivered online to participants around the world.
Exams help identify areas of improvement, serve as a learning experience, and form a basis for formal evaluations of each participant's progress.
Deal-team simulations mirror the negotiations conducted by investment banks with their clients, investors, and competitors on pricing and structuring of deals.
Industry sessions offer insight into global employment markets in finance and help hone the communication skills needed in interviews with top-tier institutions.
The collaborative learning environment sets the overall tone of our Academy. Program pace is fast but also determined by students' familiarity and comfort with new concepts.
Every Swiss Finance Academy program ends with a certificate of completion. It documents the program you completed and the standard of the work you produced: case assessments, models, and presentations graded against professional expectations.
Graduates of the Investment Banking Course earn the Chartered Investment Banker™ (CIB™) designation, a credential that validates your ability to build financial models, structure deals, and deliver at the standard top-tier banks expect.
Alongside the certificate, you keep the portfolio behind it: the models you built, the pitch books you produced, and the case analyses you defended. That body of work is what you bring into the interview room.
Final-year students targeting banking roles, early-career analysts looking to sharpen their edge, and career switchers who need a credible technical foundation.
Ready to walk into interviews with confidence and evidence of real technical work.
In banking, private equity, or asset management, looking to formalise and sharpen their skills.
From law, tech, or consulting, building a credible finance foundation from the ground up.
Seeking rigorous, practitioner-developed preparation for careers in global finance.
Similar to many investment banks, our programs do not require participants to possess formal knowledge of finance or business; many of our accepted applicants are majoring in areas such as sciences, mathematics, and even literature. A comprehensive coverage of fundamental concepts ensures that within a few days participants become fluent in finance.
A valuation walk-through from the course materials: the football-field chart that summarises the valuation methods you will build in this program, from trading comparables to discounted cash flow to leveraged buyout returns.
Five fictional deal simulations you can work through on your own timeline, or all five in one enrollment.
The companion book on how companies are valued, marketed, and sold.
The six-month advanced certificate track delivered through the online platform.
The nine-month track covers the same practitioner-developed curriculum as the six-month course with more time per module, additional case iterations, and extended feedback cycles. It suits candidates balancing study or full-time work who want the full depth of the program without compressing the workload.
We keep admissions personal. Apply with your background and goals, and our admissions team will walk you through program fit, format, and timing. Applications are reviewed individually.
Most programs have limited seats. You can apply now, or contact admissions with questions first.
Every program ends with a Swiss Finance Academy certificate of completion. It documents the program you completed and the standard of the work you produced: case assessments, models, and presentations graded against professional expectations.
Online, through the Swiss Finance Academy learning platform: the full course structure, assignments, progress tracking, and direct channels for feedback from instructors and mentors. Swiss Finance Academy is headquartered and administered in Switzerland and teaches participants around the world.
Standard pricing is published on each program page. The flagship programs are by application: apply online, and admissions confirms your format and start date and explains how to enroll. The Investment Banking Deal Modules are bought online and open in the student portal as soon as payment completes. Custom formats are scoped with admissions.
No. Similar to many investment banks, our programs do not require participants to possess formal knowledge of finance or business; many accepted applicants come from sciences, mathematics, and even literature. A comprehensive coverage of fundamental concepts ensures that within a few days participants become fluent in finance.
Every submission is graded against professional standards. Exams help identify areas of improvement and form a basis for formal evaluations of each participant's progress, and your strongest work becomes a portfolio: models, pitch books, and case analyses you built and defended yourself.
No. Swiss Finance Academy is an educational academy. Its programs teach how institutions analyse capital and how deals are structured; they are not investment advice, and nothing on this site is an offer or solicitation of any security or investment product.
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