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ICA Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance

Course Overview

The industry-standard qualification for compliance officers and managers.

Get the right mix of technical knowledge and skills to drive a positive governance, risk and compliance culture at your firm.

  • Regulation – discover why it is needed, lessons learned from history and how to manage the regulatory relationship
  • Behavioural compliance – understand the principles and how they work in practice
  • Corporate governance – learn to implement effective governance and the benefits for your firm
  • Regulatory risk management – identify emerging opportunities and threats, understand systems and controls, and learn how to design a compliance risk management programme 

Course Content

  • The need for regulation and lessons from history
  • Managing the regulatory relationship
  • Understanding behavioural compliance
  • Achieving effective corporate governance
  • Effective regulatory risk management
  • The role of the compliance function
  • The role of the compliance professional

Benefits

Awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester. 

Prerequisites

This course is suitable for:

  • Compliance officers/managers and their deputies
  • Managers with responsibility for internal compliance controls
  • Risk managers
  • Internal audit staff
  • Regulatory representatives
  • Accountants, lawyers, company secretaries

You will need a good standard of spoken and written English and ONE of the following:

  • Sound educational background, e.g. degree/professional qualification in an appropriate discipline,
  • Attainment of an ICA Advanced Certificate or
  • Three years’ relevant work experience

Assessment

  • Three timed end-of-module assessments, comprising multiple choice questions that test knowledge, understanding and analytical skills.
  • One written assignment with an industry sector focus.
  • One written case-study-based assignment connecting the elements of your learning.

Next Steps

Whilst the GTA facilitates the training for ICA qualifications, you need to enrol online directly with the ICA at ICA Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance | Level 6. Scroll down when you reach this page and enter Guernsey when it asks ‘Where are you based?’ You can then follow the process to enrol.

Course Details

Price

£4300.00

Length

Flexible 9 month course with a mix of guided online study and attendance at live virtual classrooms

Upcoming enrolment dates: 8 June 2026

Please visit the ICA website to find out more.

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Course Tutor

The International Compliance Association (ICA)

The International Compliance Association (ICA) is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community. It is also the provider of internationally recognised, professional, certificated qualifications in anti-money laundering; governance, risk and compliance and financial crime prevention. Being a member of the ICA, a global community, is a mark of prestige and shows that you have reached a standard of excellence in your professional career.

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