SimCorp Dimension
From front to back office: static data, transactions, PFC, accounting, data and administration, based on the case of an asset management company.
Train your teams in finance software and finance expertise, at the pace of your project.
Short modules, designed by consultants who roll out these tools at insurers, banks and asset managers.
Free to start, no bank card needed.
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- Standard interfaces bring data in and out
- Three technical layers around an Oracle database
Quiz · 10 questions8/10 to pass the module
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In every module
- Video with chapters
- PDF slides
- Marked quiz
- Verifiable certificate
25 courses313 modules251 h of trainingFR · EN interface and materials
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The Academy was created by AXENT Consulting, a consultancy specialising in the transformation of the finance function for banking, insurance and asset management.
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The catalogue
SimCorp
Finance software and expertise
Clearwater Analytics
Understand the Clearwater Analytics platform: data, multi-basis accounting, insurers' reporting, front-to-back and the consultant's role in a project.
Aladdin (BlackRock): understanding the platform
What Aladdin is, what each component covers (portfolio management, risk, accounting, private markets, data, AI), how the platform fits front to back at an insurer or an asset manager, and what choosing such a provider involves. Based on dated, cited public sources. Independent course, not affiliated with BlackRock.
Steering the finance transformation to a modern ERP
Banking, insurance, asset management: what moving to a modern ERP changes for the finance function, using SAP S/4HANA as the example: end-of-maintenance timeline, deployment options, universal journal. Independent course, not affiliated with SAP SE.
Google Cloud Platform
From the fundamentals to production: IAM, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Terraform, data pipelines, governance and AI, on a real-world insurer case (asset management).
Insurers' investment accounting: French GAAP and IFRS
How an insurer accounts for its investments, from French GAAP (French Insurance Code, ANC Regulation 2015-11) to IFRS (IFRS 9, IAS 21, IFRS 17), with tax and Solvency II: bonds, equities, funds, property, derivatives, repos and securities lending, impairment and hedging. Journal entries and worked numerical cases.
AI for accounting and the close
Reconciliations, account substantiation, entries, document extraction, commentary and notes: where AI can lighten or speed up a close, and how to keep an audit trail you can defend before your statutory auditor. Seven practical modules, on fictitious cases of a bank, an insurer and an asset management company.
Financial assets
From simple to the most complex instruments: the market, the insurer as investor, operations and data.
Power BI
Power BI
From data import to deployment: Power Query, modelling, DAX and the Service.
Power BI dashboards step by step
From installation to a professional dashboard: import, model, visuals, interactions and complete projects on real cases.
Finance
Sustainable finance: preparing for the exam
Prepare for the sustainable finance certification exam: the 5 themes of the syllabus, up to date, and 3 mock exams of 60 questions. AXENT is an independent training provider, neither affiliated with nor certified by the AMF; the exam is taken with an AMF-certified provider.
Artificial intelligence
Everyday generative AI in finance: safe use
Using ChatGPT, Copilot or your company's assistant without exposing your data or spreading an invented figure: six modules for safe, documented use of generative AI.
The AI Act and AI governance for senior executives
What the AI Act, as amended by the July 2026 omnibus, already requires, what is postponed, what the ACPR, the AMF, EIOPA, the EBA, the ECB and ESMA look at, and how to put proportionate AI governance in place: six modules for making informed decisions.
AI and agents in finance
Costed use cases from front to back office, agents, tools and method for an insurer's investments.
AI awareness
The essentials for using AI safely in your teams: understand it, use it well, follow the rules.
Excel
Excel: from the fundamentals to dynamic formulas
From your first cell to LET, LAMBDA and dynamic array formulas: master Excel step by step, on real-world cases.
Power Pivot and next-generation PivotTables
From the classic PivotTable to the Data Model: relationships, DAX measures in Excel, PIVOTBY and an interactive dashboard.
PowerPoint
PowerPoint: from the fundamentals to professional presentations
From your first slide to a board-ready deck: clean layout, slide master and company template, charts linked to Excel, animations and Morph, Presenter View, Zoom, co-authoring and Copilot. Step by step, based on Microsoft's official documentation.
Power Query and the M language
Power Query: the fundamentals
Automate imports and clean-ups in Excel and Power BI: queries, types, merges, groupings and combining files.
Dynamic Power Query: unbreakable queries
Shifting headers, renamed columns, multiple files: build M queries with no hard-coding, driven from Excel.
M language: lists, records and functions
Move from the interface to the code: each and _, lists, records, List.Accumulate, nested tables and custom functions.
Power Query in practice: business cases
Scheduling, test plans, reconciliations, SUMIF between tables, stock management: real-world cases solved step by step.
DAX
DAX in practice: measures, contexts and filters
SUM or SUMX, CALCULATE, ALL, FILTER, time intelligence, SWITCH: write correct DAX measures in Power BI and Power Pivot.
Free courses · 2 courses
Free modules are available at no cost once you have signed up.
Policy rates and central banks
Who sets policy rates, how they feed through to your loans, your savings and the markets, and why every decision matters for banks, insurers and asset managers. A free module, with dated and sourced figures.
Inflation
Inflation is an average: behind a single figure, energy prices can soar while other prices fall. Read the price index item by item, distinguish the CPI from the HICP, provisional from final, and understand why central banks care about it. A free module, with dated and sourced figures.
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