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Channel Islands Conference 2026: Risk management essential skills

A practical course empowering attendees to understand their offshore risk landscape, identify vulnerabilities, and strengthen risk management controls with confidence.

Overview

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Join the annual ACCA Channel Islands Conference and explore the key issues facing finance professionals in the region. Update your knowledge, earn up to 21 CPD units, and gain insights from expert speakers.

The programme blends technical, compliance, professional development, and technology topics to support the evolving role of today’s accountant.

Sessions can be booked individually, or you can attend the full conference at a discounted rate. To view the full conference schedule, click here.

Risk management essential skills:

To equip managers and directors with a greater awareness of their offshore  “risk universe” to support the identification of potential vulnerabilities of their client structures and products. The session will begin to help them assess objectively the adequacy of their organisation’s existing risk management controls and practices in order that they can begin to make recommendations and enhancements as appropriate.

 

 

  •  Global Risk Trends
  •  Appreciating your “Risk Universe”
  •  Driver, influencers and the need for compliance
  •  Defining Risk v. Risk Management
  •  Risk Management Architecture
  •  Key Roles and Responsibilities for Risk Management
  •  Identifying risks in your business environment
  •  Tips to manage and monitor
  •  Potential consequences of failure

Jo French

Jo, specialises in developing contemporary bespoke, technical in-house CPD programmes covering a range of AML, compliance and governance issues. She has over 25 years’ experience in delivering credible training to a wide range of financial service businesses both in the Crown Dependencies and internationally, as well as institutions that include the BBA, the ACSP in the Isle of Man, Guernsey Training Agency and the Jersey International Business School where her role also extended to delivering on Buckingham University’s BSc (Hons) in International Financial Services degree as part of their faculty.

In addition, she has taught on the International Compliance Association’s full range of AML and compliance qualifications since 2005, delivered Business Law units for both ACCA and ICAEW and as a Fellow of the Governance Institute (formally ICSA) written and delivered across both level 4&5 Certificate and Diploma, as well as the qualifying scheme, (subjects include Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Boardroom Dynamics, Company Law and Company Compliance and Administration.) Jo’s ICSA students have won many international prizes, most recently in Trust and Company Administration in May 2021, and CORE in the November 2021 exams.

A committed educationalist, Jo has a First Class Law Degree (LLB) and Masters in Law (LLM) (Merit) from Queen Mary University of London specialising in financial services law. She is passionate about the delivery of accessible and innovative training courses.

The webinar handout material will be available on the webinar platform when you log in to view the session.

If you wish to view or download handout materials, before starting the webinar, they will also be available through your document library on https://events.accaglobal.com

Price

Price (excluding VAT) 58 GBP

Location

United Kingdom

Date & time

22 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT

Enquiries

Email enquiries UKCL@accaglobal.com

Course provider

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