Hi All,
Not sure how this will land but decided to ask the question anyway.
I am in my late 30s where I studied finance and accounting and hold a CPA designation. Over the years I have rotated across various roles from external audit, internal audit and for the past 5 years in operational risk within capital markets.
alrhough I have no intention of being a quant, I have realized that getting a good foundational knowledge of mathematical finance will help me go a long way from my current role. I have been thinking of moving into market risk and maybe see how credit risk is with the end goal of being a subject matter expert in risk management for banks and broker dealers.
However, given my non technical history/background I am contemplating on doing an online masters in financial math just to get the foundations down with the hopes of getting to try out other risk disciplines/areas outside of operational risk. However, I am concerned that it will take me forever to get all the pre-reqs down and then do a part time program which eventually will have diminishing returns both from a financial and time perspective.
would love to get feedback on what are my options given my age, experience level and career objective
Not sure how this will land but decided to ask the question anyway.
I am in my late 30s where I studied finance and accounting and hold a CPA designation. Over the years I have rotated across various roles from external audit, internal audit and for the past 5 years in operational risk within capital markets.
alrhough I have no intention of being a quant, I have realized that getting a good foundational knowledge of mathematical finance will help me go a long way from my current role. I have been thinking of moving into market risk and maybe see how credit risk is with the end goal of being a subject matter expert in risk management for banks and broker dealers.
However, given my non technical history/background I am contemplating on doing an online masters in financial math just to get the foundations down with the hopes of getting to try out other risk disciplines/areas outside of operational risk. However, I am concerned that it will take me forever to get all the pre-reqs down and then do a part time program which eventually will have diminishing returns both from a financial and time perspective.
would love to get feedback on what are my options given my age, experience level and career objective
