ICA Advanced Certificate in Business Compliance
- Gain actionable, practical compliance skills to undertake your role with confidence
- Apply your knowledge to analyse risk more effectively
- Boost your professional profile by gaining an internationally recognised qualification awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester
ICA CPD Hours: 100
Qualification designation: Adv.Cert(Bus.Comp)
Course dates:
- 07 April 2026 - see modules for April 2026
- 29 June 2026 - see modules for June 2026
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Course fees and group booking discounts
If you are not an existing ICA Member, a fee for 12 months’ membership will be added to your order. Currency is dependent on location and subject to local taxes:
Course fee
GBP – 2150
EUR – 2365
USD – 2795
Discounts are also available for group bookings.
ICA Membership fee
GBP – 185
EUR – 204
USD - 241
Instalment payment plan
Want to spread the cost of this course? Find out more about the ICA instalment payment plan.
Learning Outcomes & Course Format
What will I learn?
- The context of compliance and its origins
- Building an effective control framework
- The skills needed to be an effective compliance professional
- Risk management, alert systems and investigations
- Managing financial crime risk
- Creating competitive advantage
Course Format
A flexible, part-time, six-month course designed for busy, working professionals. A mix of guided, online study and attendance at live, virtual classrooms.
Innovative virtual classrooms delivered by subject matter experts bring the content to life. They allow you to absorb knowledge and turn it into ability, and immersive scenarios will enable you to gain confidence and apply what you have learned to a simulated real-life situation.
The Level 4 – Intermediate course is assessed through:
- A timed, online scenario-based assessment
- A research-based assignment
Entry Requirements & Tutors
Is this course right for me?
This course is suitable for those working in regulated firms outside financial services e.g: oil and gas, aerospace, telecoms
- Compliance employees
- Employees who have compliance responsibilities
- Those who wish to learn fundamental compliance principles and how businesses should be compliant
Become an ICA Member
When you enrol onto this course you will join an international community of over 30,000 members. Benefits include:
- Access to the uniquely personalised ICA Learning Hub
- Weekly webinars covering the latest industry developments
- Discounts on ICA events and further ICA courses
The fee for ICA membership will be added separately to your basket when you enrol online for this course.
Course Tutors:
Rosalind Dixon-Burnett
Global Lead of GRC
Roz joined the ICA in 2024, leaving her role as Head of Compliance for a rapidly growing asset management firm where she held both SMF 16 (Compliance Oversight) and SMF17 (MLRO) senior management positions.
She brings over 26 years of financial services experience, working across all three lines of defence in risk, compliance and internal audit roles, and has led a variety of successful risk and regulatory change programmes, as well as designing, implementing and embedding highly successful (and commercially valuable) operational risk, compliance and internal audit functions within FS firms of varying size and maturity.
Allen Vincent
Associate Course Director - Governance, Risk and Compliance
Allen joined the ICA in 2023 following 18 years’ experience in retail financial services, having held several roles across governance, risk and compliance management at UK and global banks. Within these roles Allen was responsible for providing specialist risk knowledge and insights to senior management, conducting independent risk and control analysis activities across different jurisdictions, and developing and leading a risk culture training programme for a global audience. This enabled him to acquire detailed practical risk and compliance experience in a commercial environment whilst promoting a positive risk culture through education and awareness.
Allen achieved a Level 6 Senior Compliance & Risk Specialist NVQ in 2022, holds an ICA qualification at the Diploma level, and is a professional member of the International Compliance Association. His role at ICA, as an Associate Course Director, focuses upon the delivery and development of training content across a number of qualifications in the GRC space. Allen has a genuine passion for professional education and development and believes that people with the right skills and knowledge can have a positive impact on consumers, the public and wider society. Promoting high standards of conduct, of GRC and financial crime controls are fundamental to the integrity of any organisation.
Jonathan Bowdler
Global Lead, Post Grad Diplomas
Jonathan is responsible for all the Compliance programmes. Having 25 years of financial services industry experience, holding senior compliance roles for the last 15 of these, Jonathan has a wealth of practical compliance experience.
With an MBA from Henley Business School and a Diploma in Management from Reading University, Jonathan is also highly qualified in business management and is, therefore, able to place governance, risk and compliance management within the context of wider corporate strategy.
