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Certified Credit Professional

Online Certification  ·  10 Week  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CCRP)

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Executive Summary

Certified Credit Professional

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Credit Professional (CCRP) delivers a rigorous Advanced-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in financial management, accounting, budgeting and financial analysis.

This 10 Week programme is structured around IFRS, GAAP and recognised financial management and reporting standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CCRP holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Credit Professional
Acronym
CCRP
Category
Finance & Accounting
Level
Advanced
Duration
10 Week
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 449
Live Virtual
USD 649
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Expected Credit Loss and Staging — applied to your own work
  • Portfolio Quality and Restructuring — applied to your own work
  • Compliance in Lending — applied to your own work
  • Assessing Capacity, Not Collateral — applied to your own work
  • The Five Cs in Thin-Data Markets — applied to your own work
  • Structuring to the Cash Cycle — applied to your own work
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards senior finance, controller and CFO roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with IFRS, GAAP and recognised financial management and reporting standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex financial management functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement financial management systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to financial management
Global Employability
Qualify for financial management roles across corporates, banks, NGOs and public-sector organisations worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Financial Accounting, Reporting and Analysis
✦Budgeting, Planning and Cost Control
✦Corporate Finance, Investment and Valuation
✦Treasury, Working Capital and Cash Management
✦Financial Controls, Audit and Governance
✦Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Credit Professional
  • Certified Credit Professional: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • The role of finance in organisations and value creation
  • Financial, management and cost accounting distinguished
  • The finance operating model and business partnering
  • Accounting concepts, principles and the regulatory landscape
  • Financial statements and the accounting equation
  • Stakeholders and users of financial information
  • Ethics and professional standards in finance
  • Corporate objectives and shareholder value
  • The finance function and digital transformation
  • Building a finance career and professional development
2
Expected Credit Loss and Staging
  • Expected credit loss and portfolio quality
  • Financial regulation and prudential supervision
  • Credit assessment and the five Cs
  • Digital currencies and CBDCs
  • Regulatory and compliance requirements
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Emerging payment technologies
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Tax administration and compliance
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Ethics in tax practice
3
Portfolio Quality and Restructuring
  • Expected credit loss and portfolio quality
  • Audit evidence, sampling and professional scepticism
  • Internal control and the fraud triangle
  • Sector-focused SME finance
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Microfinance models and methodologies
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Decision support and insight
  • Digital financial services
  • Communicating financial results
  • Portfolio quality and risk
  • Sustainability of microfinance
  • Financial strategy and capital allocation
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Financial risk: credit, market, liquidity, operational
4
Compliance in Lending
  • AML, KYC and financial crime prevention
  • Financial regulation and prudential supervision
  • Internal control and the fraud triangle
  • Substantive and analytical procedures
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Audit opinions and reporting
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Industry and business risk
  • Loan structuring and pricing
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Consumer, SME and corporate credit
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
5
Assessing Capacity, Not Collateral
  • Credit assessment and the five Cs
  • Accrual accounting and the profit-cash gap
  • Reading financial statements as a manager
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Approval processes and delegation
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Portfolio management and reporting
  • Credit risk measurement
  • Portfolio diversification and limits
6
The Five Cs in Thin-Data Markets
  • Credit assessment and the five Cs
  • Financial inclusion and serving underbanked markets
  • Reading financial statements as a manager
  • Insurance, risk transfer and retained risk
  • The finance function, month-end close and reporting cycle
  • SME and relationship lending in practice
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Payment regulation and oversight
  • Payment innovation and fintech
  • Transaction lifecycle and processing
7
Structuring to the Cash Cycle
  • Credit assessment and the five Cs
  • Treasury, liquidity and currency exposure
  • Accrual accounting and the profit-cash gap
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Practice management systems
  • Ethics of technology in practice
  • Emerging tools and innovation
  • Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
  • Communicating with families and carers
8
Change
  • Change management in finance
  • Measuring transformation impact
  • Foreign exchange and currency risk
  • Finance transformation and target operating models
  • Change management and adoption
  • Training and change management
  • Learning transformation and modernisation
  • Sustaining transformation and benefits
  • Measuring learning transformation impact
  • Governance transformation and reform
  • Regulatory and digital transformation
  • Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
  • Customer experience transformation
  • Digital and self-service transformation
  • Measuring CX transformation impact
9
Sustainability and ESG
  • Sustainability and responsible finance
  • Monitoring, evaluation and sustainability plan
  • Sustainability certification and standards
  • Responsible and sustainable banking
  • Sustainable and green banking
  • Control environment and risk assessment
  • Emerging assurance areas (ESG)
  • Sustainability, ESG and integrated value
  • Professional writing and reports
  • The regulatory and legal environment
  • Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
  • Sustainability reporting and disclosure
  • Embedding sustainability in sourcing
  • Mine water, tailings and environmental management
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
10
Learning and Research
  • Cognitive load and learning science
  • The learning and development profession
  • Learning strategy and business alignment
  • Learning cultures and the learning organisation
  • Digital learning strategy
  • Innovation and experimentation in learning
  • Skills-based and continuous learning
  • Scaling learning across the organisation
  • Blended and hybrid learning design
  • Motivation and self-directed learning
  • Training needs analysis and learning strategy
  • Knowledge management and capability building
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
  • Evidence-based practice and research literacy
  • Lessons learned and knowledge management
11
Financial Practice
  • Data visualisation and financial storytelling
  • Evidence-based financial recommendations
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and finance systems
  • Financial data, master data and the chart of accounts
  • Business intelligence and finance dashboards
  • Data analytics and predictive finance
  • Cloud finance and system integration
  • Cybersecurity and financial data protection
  • Reconciliations and the financial close
  • Audit evidence, sampling and testing
  • Corporate income tax and computations
  • Managing tax audits and queries
  • Tax provisioning and reporting
  • Keeping current with tax change
  • Types of banks and financial institutions
12
Banking and Financial Services
  • Treasury technology and systems
  • Investment strategy and allocation
  • Credit and counterparty risk
  • Development banking principles
  • Digital and alternative-data credit
  • Negotiation with banks, investors and suppliers
  • Investment of surplus funds
  • Investment and disinvestment decisions
  • Investment appraisal and the cost of capital
  • Digital finance, mobile money and payment operations
  • Payment risk types and management
  • Credit bureaus and data
  • Regulatory capital for credit
  • Credit risk governance
  • Roles, conduct and professional standards in banking
13
Risk and Control
  • Tax compliance and the tax risk agenda
  • Tax compliance and returns
  • Tax risk management
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Back-office processing and controls
  • Operational risk management
  • Regulatory compliance in operations
  • Governance of operations
  • Market risk and VaR
  • Managing difficult conversations
  • Corporate governance and the finance role
  • Managing tax risk and audits
  • Payables, procurement controls and supplier fraud
  • Regulatory compliance and professional duty
  • Risk assessment and sensitivity analysis
14
Legal and Regulatory
  • Recovery and legal remedies
  • Regulatory capital and ratios
  • Managing audit and regulator relationships
  • Regulatory reporting and disclosure
  • Payroll, statutory deductions and employment cost
  • Building trust and engagement
  • Regulatory compliance and biosafety
  • Regulatory compliance and market requirements
  • Regulatory and fair-treatment obligations
  • The regulatory landscape and central banking
  • Regulatory duty and accountability
  • Legal and other requirements
  • Contract types and risk allocation
  • Contract administration and variation
  • Contract performance and exit
15
Data and Reporting
  • Working papers and evidence
  • Findings, rating and reporting
  • Board reporting and investor relations
  • Board and executive financial reporting
  • Financial storytelling and data visualisation
  • Data ethics and privacy in finance
  • Data gathering and financial analysis
  • Financial reporting standards (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Disclosure, notes and integrated reporting
  • Reporting quality and earnings management risks
  • Financial modelling and forecasting discipline
  • Applying reporting standards and accounting judgement
  • Card and data security (PCI DSS)
  • Leading groups and workshops
  • Collaboration and teamwork
16
Analysis and Decisions
  • Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
  • Costing methods and relevant cost for decisions
  • Behavioural and process addictions
  • Ratio and trend analysis
  • Valuation and security analysis
  • Cost-to-serve and value-for-money analysis
  • Capstone scoping: a real financial problem or decision
  • Recommendations and decision support
  • Trend, common-size and comparative analysis
  • Pricing, contribution and product decisions
  • Make-or-buy and outsourcing decisions
  • Supply market analysis
  • Training needs analysis
  • Root-cause analysis and problem solving
  • Strategic analysis: PESTLE, SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces
17
Operations and Process
  • Process re-engineering and shared services
  • Process efficiency and cycle-time metrics
  • Quality, accuracy and error reduction
  • Cheque clearing and processing
  • Process improvement and automation
  • Service levels and quality
  • Advisory and non-financial services
  • Quality assurance of audit
  • Competitive bidding processes
  • Business process mapping
  • The HR function: roles, operating models and value creation
  • Designing a banking solution or process
  • Principles of credit and the lending process
  • Automation, RPA and straight-through processing
  • Process and control documentation
18
Leadership and Management
  • Working capital management and the cash cycle
  • Cash flow forecasting and liquidity management
  • Receivables, payables and inventory management
  • Risk, protective and social factors
  • Stages of change and readiness
  • Cash and liquidity management
  • SME portfolio management
  • Team leadership within finance
  • Business continuity and crisis management
  • Sanctions screening and PEP management
  • Relationship management and cross-selling
  • Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
  • Project roles and the project manager
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Organisational change management
19
People and Development
  • Managing resistance and upskilling teams
  • Appraisal of development projects
  • Coaching for performance
  • Team leadership in banking operations
  • Development banking and project finance
  • Message development and testing
  • Supplier development and innovation
  • Continuing professional development
  • Career pathways and professional development
  • Measuring development impact
  • Feedback and developmental conversations
  • Career and talent development
  • Building a coaching culture
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
  • Capability and skills frameworks
20
Communication
  • Presenting financial information clearly
  • Investor relations and market communication
  • Professional and persuasive communication
  • Crisis communications
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Ethics in communications
  • Communications strategy and planning
  • Internal communications
  • Corporate social responsibility communications
  • Presentation and public speaking
  • Professional report and presentation
  • Communicating technical information to diverse audiences
  • Professional report writing and presentation
  • Communication and interpersonal skills
  • Influencing and presenting insights
21
Stakeholders and Clients
  • Business partnering and influencing
  • Stakeholder mapping for the finance function
  • Managing expectations and influence
  • Negotiation and conflict management
  • Building project relationships
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
  • Commercial negotiation and value capture
  • Influencer and affiliate marketing
  • Building strategic customer relationships
  • Sponsorship and negotiation selling
  • Negotiation with clients and partners
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
  • Stakeholder rights and fair treatment
22
Markets and Customers
  • Fees, pricing and interchange
  • Transfer pricing basics
  • Transfer pricing documentation
  • Transfer pricing and international tax
  • Strategic customer relationships
  • Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
  • Insurance products and lines of business
  • Insurance pricing, premiums and loadings
  • Destination, venue and experience products
  • Pricing tours, events and sponsorships
  • Event planning timelines, run sheets and production schedules
  • Sustaining strategic customer focus
  • Customer and journey analysis
  • Operational efficiency and productivity
  • Customer experience strategy
23
Technology and Systems
  • Innovation and fintech partnerships
  • Automation, RPA and the digital close
  • Digital tax administration
  • Projects, programmes and portfolios
  • Digital finance and automation roadmaps
  • Safety management systems (ISO 45001)
  • Safety management systems overview (ISO 45001)
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Environmental management systems (ISO 14001)
  • Business case and strategic alignment
  • Digital permits and inspections
  • Project governance and assurance
  • Water supply systems: sources, treatment and distribution
  • Telehealth and digital care delivery
  • Project governance frameworks
24
Strategic Context
  • Collections strategy
  • Hedging strategies and instruments
  • Mergers, funding and growth strategy
  • Reporting to boards and executives
  • Competitive strategy and positioning
  • Business model design and innovation
  • Setting strategic priorities and choices
  • Aligning teams around strategy
  • Strategy execution and the balanced scorecard
  • Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
  • Measuring strategic progress
  • Measuring growth and transformation impact
  • Capstone scoping: a real growth or brand challenge
  • Designing a marketing or sales strategy
  • Marketing strategy and the mix
25
Projects and Delivery
  • Crisis, resilience and contingency planning
  • Leading finance projects and change
  • Forecasting and planning (FP&A)
  • Tax planning, avoidance and evasion distinguished
  • Tax planning vs avoidance vs evasion
  • Planning and understanding the entity
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Treatment planning and review
  • Project management software and tools
  • Scheduling and planning tools
  • Project data, reporting and analytics
  • AI and predictive project analytics
26
Performance Measurement
  • Managing organisational politics
  • Performance measurement and attribution
  • Finance KPIs and the finance scorecard
  • Interpreting financial performance
  • Performance and SLAs
  • Compliance and regulatory projects
  • Investment principles and objectives
  • Metrics and reporting
  • Performance management systems and cycles
  • Performance measurement and KPI dashboards
  • Continuous feedback and performance conversations
  • High-performance team rituals and cadence
  • Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
  • Psychometric and screening tools
  • Project KPIs and performance metrics
27
Procurement and Suppliers
  • Value-chain and supply-chain finance
  • The procurement cycle and operating models
  • Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
  • Public versus private procurement
  • Supply markets and the enabling environment
  • Digital procurement and the future of the profession
  • Sustainable procurement principles and standards
  • Fair trade and responsible supply
  • Procurement and asset management under donor rules
  • Change control and configuration
  • Leading project governance
  • Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
  • Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
28
Ethics and Conduct
  • Professional ethics and codes (IFAC, ACCA, CIMA)
  • Ethics and transparency in tax
  • Ethics, transparency and reputation
  • Ethics and suitability
  • Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
  • Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Responsible and ethical service
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
29
People Administration
  • The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Workforce and shift management in retail
  • Workforce management and scheduling
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Customer and employee satisfaction
  • Employee engagement models and drivers
  • Workforce planning and the capability gap
  • Employee relations, discipline and fair process
  • Employee engagement and what actually drives it
  • Workforce reporting and storytelling with data
  • Cost of workforce and ROI of HR interventions
  • Employee and manager self-service
30
Professional Leadership Practice
  • Change and adoption in projects
  • Management review and improvement
  • Leadership versus management and when each is needed
  • Situational and adaptive leadership
  • Values, purpose and authentic leadership
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Self-awareness and the leader's identity
  • Ethics and responsible leadership
  • Quality management and standards
  • Category management and strategy development
  • Data quality and master data management
  • Portfolio management and prioritisation
  • Value management and business value
  • Revenue management and yield
  • Renewals and churn management
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Expected Credit Loss and Staging — applied to your own work
  • Portfolio Quality and Restructuring — applied to your own work
  • Compliance in Lending — applied to your own work
  • Assessing Capacity, Not Collateral — applied to your own work
  • The Five Cs in Thin-Data Markets — applied to your own work
  • Structuring to the Cash Cycle — applied to your own work
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CCRP certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with IFRS, GAAP and recognised financial management and reporting standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CCRP?

This certification is ideal for Finance Officers and Accountants, Budget and Cost Analysts, Finance Managers and Controllers and Auditors and Financial Analysts, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in financial management, accounting, budgeting and financial analysis with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CCRP certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CCRP internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with IFRS, GAAP and recognised financial management and reporting standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CCRP certification?

The Certified Credit Professional is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CCRP certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CCRP?

The Certified Credit Professional is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CCRP?

The Certified Credit Professional carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CCRP while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CCRP?

Graduates progress towards senior finance, controller and CFO roles. The CCRP strengthens your expertise in financial management, accounting, budgeting and financial analysis and positions you for advancement across corporates, banks, NGOs and public-sector organisations.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Finance Director
Private Sector
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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

Financial Controller
NGO Sector
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I earned my CCRP while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Senior Accountant
Government
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