VITARA - Enterprise Risk Management (VITARA-ERM)

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Session No.: OL 25.224
Deadline passed
Location: Course conducted online
Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
Delivery Method: Online Training
Primary Language: English
Qualifications: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.

Executives and senior managers dealing with ERM issues in a tax administration.
Other tax administration staff involved in implementation of ERM policies, identification and prioritization of risks, and development and oversight of treatment strategies.
Executives and managers with no previous ERM experience who wish to establish ERM practice in their organization for the first time.

Short, self-paced course providing fundamental knowledge on modern Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) good practices.
Strategic goal: understand and manage enterprise risks (including compliance, IT, HR, finance, project, and reform-related risks) in a holistic, structured, and systematic fashion.
ERM informs strategy and planning and thus improve the quality and viability of strategies and organizational performance.
ERM seeks to ensure that significant organizational risks (which can also be thought of as barriers, threats, or obstacles) are recognized and, where required and to the extent possible, mitigated to acceptable levels and possibly turned into opportunities.
Course includes many practical ERM tools, methodologies, and templates to help participants implement learned concepts.
Joint initiative of four international organizations: Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT), Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations (IOTA), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

Define the concept of enterprise risk management and its benefits for tax administrations.
Appreciate the strategic role of ERM.
Outline the enterprise risk management framework.
Describe the enterprise risk management process.
Determine the necessary organizational and governance arrangements needed for ERM.
Explain the role of senior leaders of a tax administration in enterprise risk management.
Identify specific issues developing countries need to address to begin their ERM journey.
Identify critical success factors of ERM.