Risk Based Internal Auditing (RBIA)
Risk-based internal auditing that assures the board — assessing the assurance framework and adapting RBIA to your organisation’s own structures and risk appetite.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
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Internal audit earns its seat when it can tell the board, with evidence, that risk management is working within the organisation’s risk appetite. Risk-based internal auditing (RBIA) is the methodology for doing exactly that: assessing the adequacy of the assurance framework and the reliability of its assurance sources. But no two organisations share the same attitude to risk, management structure, processes or regulatory obligations — so experienced auditors must adapt RBIA to their own organisation’s structures, processes and language. The cohort works through the methodology and its implementation in their own context.
What you will do
Who attends
- Board members — risk and audit committee chairs and members
- Chief risk, compliance, audit and financial officers
- Heads of market, credit and operational risk
- Internal and external auditors, regulators and examiners
- Actuaries, treasurers and risk management consultants
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The RBIA methodology
- Assessing the adequacy of the assurance framework
- Reliability of assurance sources
- Providing assurance to the board
II.Risk appetite and audit
- Risk management processes measured against appetite
- Auditing by risk rather than by checklist
- Differing organisational attitudes to risk
III.Adapting RBIA
- Organisational structures, processes and language
- Conventions and regulatory obligations
- Implementing RBIA in your own institution
Frequently asked
Will these programmes prepare our team for supervisory review?
That is what they are built for. Casework is structured around the evidence supervisors request — risk-appetite articulation, documentation, attestation — and participants leave able to assemble the evidence trail before it is asked for and defend the framework in examination. Faculty include practitioners who have sat on the supervisor’s side of the table.
Which risk frameworks does the curriculum cover?
The risk and compliance curriculum spans enterprise risk management on the COSO framework, credit, market, liquidity and operational risk, IFRS 9 provisioning, stress testing, and financial-crime disciplines including fraud detection and AML/CFT. Each programme page states the frames it works in and what participants will build with them.
Can we attend in French?
Yes. BIZENIUS delivers in English and French, in classroom, live virtual and hybrid formats. French-language cohorts serve institutions across BCEAO jurisdictions and other francophone markets.
What happens after we enquire about a programme?
A senior practitioner replies within one business day with the brochure attached. The conversation then covers dates, format, any tailoring your institution needs, and the fee — BIZENIUS shares fees in that proposal, not on a public price list.
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A senior bench across risk, treasury and regulation.
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One request — the full agenda, the faculty and the next cohort dates, sent personally by the admissions team.