ARC Institute Profile: Managing Director | Senior Equity Partner
Dr. Dominik Foerschler
PhD, M.A. Banking & Finance, CIA, CRMA, Quality Assessor
Erfahrung ist unersetzbar. Mehr als 2100 Trainings- und Beratungstage in Zusammenarbeit mit mehr als 190 Unternehmen zeichnen den erfolgreichen Weg von Dr. Dominik Förschler aus. Darunter zahlreiche börsennotierte Unternehmen, supranationale Institutionen wie Zentralbanken, Kreditinstitute sowie zugleich namhafte Sparkassen und erfolgreiche Unternehmensrevisionen aus Industrie und Handel. Das Audit Research Center konzentriert sich unter seiner Leitung auf die Themen, die als Hebel einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Leistung Ihrer Revision haben. Dabei ist der Anspruch die Leistungsfähigkeit der unterstützten Revisionen nachhaltig zu verbessern.
Im Sinne des Thought Leadership Gedankens steht das ARC Institute für Themenführerschaft und Vorausdenken im Bereich Interne Revision.
Since heading the Audit Research Center | ARC Institute, responsible for three operational audit and risk advisory teams, Dominik Foerschler developed a new product portfolio strategy based on his Integrated Audit Risk Centric Approach® and a comprehensive CMMi audit approach.
After joining the business school initially as executive assistant to the president, Dominik Foerschler subsequently built up the “Governance & Audit” section, consisting of the four main pillars: Internal & External Audit, Banking Supervision, Corporate Governance and Fraud Investigation. He established the “Audit Challenge” leadership conference series as an audit methodology conference for the three German-speaking countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Previously, Dominik Foerschler launched his career in the financial services sector as a member of Deutsche Bank Group AG’s corporate center talent group. There, he worked in several business areas worldwide [Retail Banking, Asset Management, Corporate Investment Banking, a subsequent cooperation project with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Bond Trading TSE Toronto, Management Information system CIBC Ontario, CBOT Chicago, Deutsche Bank AG, Inhouse Consulting Europe]. In conjunction with a restructuring of the global internal audit function, he joined the corporate center group audit team. After being part of the reorganization team for the IAA, he was a senior audit team leader and project methodology leader in the chief of staff’s group audit team.
Key skills include
- Audit Executive Coaching
- Executive Training for Board Members
- Integrated Audit Risk Centric Approach® (IARCA) [originator]
- HiANCA – Brain Research Audit Methodology®
- Senior Expert for European Banking Regulation
- Systemic Coaching Expert
Language Skills
- German native speaker
- English business fluent
- Spanish business fluent
- French very good
- Russian good
Further Roles & Responsibilities
- Chairman of the Audit Challenge Conference Board
- Executive Facilitator of the Audit Excellence Group
- Chairman of the Audit Innovation Award Jury
- Executive Facilitator of the Audit Excellence Group
- Chief Editor till 2015 of double blind journal >Audit, Risk, Compliance<, Bankverlag Köln
- Publisher of the book series “Internal Audit Strategy”
- Vice President of the German Association of Business Economists