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VAE - Validation of Acquired Experience

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VAE: Validation of Acquired Experience

VAE enables you to obtain a diploma or qualification registered in the Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles (RNCP) without having to go back to school!

How does it work? By recognizing the candidate's professional and personal experience.

Why? To obtain state-recognized certification, to develop professionally...

 

What are the prerequisites?

VAE is open to anyone, regardless of age, nationality, level of training or status, as long as they can provide proof of at least one period of experience directly related to the certification in question, with no minimum duration.

Eligible experience :

  • All types of experience are taken into account as part of the process of validating acquired experience:
  • Professional, salaried, self-employed, volunteer and voluntary experience
  • Internship periods
  • Initial training periods
  • Continuing training periods

Diploma Recognition

Establishment diploma preparing for the professional qualification of "Expert in financial markets and instruments", a professional qualification registered with the RNCP on 19/07/2024 under number 39400 for a period of 5 years, code NSF 313, awarded by the "Ecole supérieure libre des sciences commerciales appliquées", a qualification accessible via the VAE system.

RNCP Block 39400: Expert in financial markets and instruments

  • Monitor economic data and trade in major geopolitical zones, with a view to anticipating medium- and long-term economic trends.  
  • Interpret economic and geopolitical analyses. 
  • Study and understand the resulting discrepancies, so as to improve the quality of future forecasts after taking into account the errors observed. 

  • Maintain financial databases 
  • Extract different securities (equities - bonds - derivatives) in order to obtain the best possible performance from the portfolios under management 
  • Maintain financial databases 
  • Extract different securities (agricultural and energy commodities and currency markets) in order to obtain the best possible performance from the portfolios under management 
  • Establish and analyze trends in benchmark stock market indices in order to identify medium- and long-term financial market trends and assess the risks of different types of investment.
  • Support forecasts with statistical and probabilistic studies adapted to investment durations.  

  • Advise financial institutions, companies and government agencies on responsible and sustainable securities issuance, limiting the risks associated with investments in financial, currency and commodity markets.
  • Design structured products (financial products built from underlying financial assets and their derivatives) in compliance with the rules of financial ethics as instituted by the AMF, in order to optimize returns over time without exposing investors to uncontrollable risks.
  • Design and use mathematical risk assessment models applicable to the evolution of complex structured products and the corresponding financial markets. 

  • Design and use mathematical risk assessment models for investments or financing requirements on the financial markets
  • Advise financial institutions, companies and government departments on asset management, in line with financing requirements and planned investment durations.
  • Take positions on the securities, currency and commodities markets with a view to optimizing forward returns while limiting the risks resulting from market volatility and economic hazards. 
  • Set up hedges with firm and conditional commitment derivatives 
  • Ensure optimized and responsible management of corporate cash flow through reasoned short-term investments in financial markets, in compliance with financial legislation and stakeholder information obligations.
  • Designing mergers/acquisitions and disposals of unlisted companies, to optimize returns for shareholders.   

  • Ensure the compliance of procedures and positions taken on financial markets, in order to guarantee the security of transactions for all stakeholders.
  • Provide a platform for monitoring traders' positions on the trading floor, in order to assess traders' positions in real time and report any breaches of authorized limits.
  • Advise financial institutions and companies on the compliance of their financial procedures, with a view to maintaining the necessary level of confidence with international customers, as well as a favorable assessment by rating agencies. 

The VAE process

How to apply :

Applications for VAE are made via the contact form or by email to [email protected].

Once you have submitted your application, you will be contacted within two weeks.

Start of training: training begins as soon as the support contract has been signed.

Admission procedure :

Applications for access to VAE are examined on the basis of a dossier.

This must include the following documents 

  • Identity document
  • CV
  • Last diploma obtained
  • Eligibility booklet (download the model below)
  • Proof of experience (certificate of employment, membership of an association, etc.)

To get started, click here to read the CERFA form you'll need to fill in to submit your application.

Support

If you are deemed eligible, you will be offered the VAE support described below. This support begins as soon as the contract is signed.

Length of support: support lasts 9 hours and extends over 12 months from the signing of the contract.

All support takes place on a one-to-one basis with the VAE advisor, who is a professional in the sector and an experienced teacher.

Interviews and workshops will be held remotely, to suit as many people as possible.

The aim of the support is to prepare for the writing of the livret 2 and the oral presentation, both of which are judged by the VAE jury for the award of the targeted certification. 

The different stages of support

  1. Presentation meeting

    1. Presentation of the support process, 
    2. Presentation of the reference framework for the target certification
    3. Presentation of the booklet 2 expected by the VAE jury, and its drafting guide. 
       
  2. Workshop 

    1. Discussion of the candidate's project and CV 
    2. Selection of experiences to be mobilized 
    3. Formulation of the validation project
       
  3. Workshop 2

    1. Work on the methodology 
    2. Work on the choice of illustrations 
    3. Start of the drafting of booklet 2
       
  4. Workshop 3

    1. Choice of appendices, glossaries and bibliography 
    2. Finalization of booklet 2 

       

  5. Workshop 4

    1. Presentation of how a jury works (regulations, expectations, posture)
    2. Preparation for the oral interview with the jury
    3. Simulation of the interview

 

Coaching will require personal work by the candidate to make autonomous progress on the drafting of booklet 2. 

 

Evaluation methods

Jury VAE

Once Booklet 2 has been completed, the candidate will present it to a VAE jury in the form of an oral interview.

The aim of the interview is to present the skills listed in the reference framework to a panel of experts in the field, and to discuss the acquisition of the targeted skills.

The interview can be face-to-face or remote, depending on the candidate's needs and mobility.

Results will be sent no later than 1 month after the oral. 

Certification

Skill acquisition can be judged as total or partial.

  • Total acquisition :
    Obtaining the target title
  • Partial acquisition:
    A certificate is awarded for each block of skills acquired, and a training program is proposed to acquire the remaining blocks.

Career prospects

The "financial instruments and markets expert" certification aims to prepare professionals for key roles in the financial markets sector, covering specific professions such as :

  • Analyst (quantitative, financial, credit, commodities, market risk, data)
  • Trader 
  • Broker 
  • Sales (financial markets, structured products, etc.) 
  • Portfolio Manager 
  • Wealth Management Advisor 
  • Middle Office/Back Office Manager 
  • Compliance Officer 
  • Risk Manager

Funding

The cost of VAE coaching is €3,000.

VAE can be financed by :

  • your CPF
  • your employer through the OPCO
  • The Transition Pro scheme
  • Pole Emploi,...
     

Good to know : As a company, you are entitled to VAE leave!

VAE in numbers
Number of applicants / Number of graduates

In the absence of a significant workforce, indicators have not been calculated for 2023.

Trainees

In 2024.

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