On 15 January, BA School of Business and Finance and MSC Shared Service Center Riga signed a letter of intent. This letter of intent marks the expansion of cooperation. Cooperation with the company will increase the competences, skills and competitiveness of the students of the BA School of Business and Banking (BASBF)in the labour market. The Letter of Intent foresees that the company’s employees and experts will provide guest lectures at the BASBF on such issues as HR management, project management, logistics and customer service, Power BI, automation of robotic processes, protection of personal data, etc., will offer assignments and case studies from the company’s work experience as far as possible. The cooperation also includes activities in Latvian schools to raise young people’s awareness of financial and business trends in Latvia, helping them to plan their future careers and successfully enter the labour market here in Latvia.
From the left: Raivis Trenko, Director of Documentation, Tariffs and Legal Department of MSC Shared Service Center Riga; Evelina Lesina, HR Manager for the Baltics of MSC Shared Service Center Riga; Liga Peiseniece, Rector of the BA School of Business and Finance; Rodions Sirajevs, Chairman of the Board of MSC Shared Service Center Riga; Andris Natrins, Vice-Chairman of the Council of the BA School of Business and Finance; Tereza Korsaka, Head of Career Centre of the BA School of Business and Finance; Olga Dzilna, Marketing Manager of MSC Shared Service Center Riga.
Rector of the BA School of Business and Finance, Professor Liga Peiseniece:
“The strategic goal of the BA School of Business and Finance 2024-2025 is to develop the BA School of Business and Finance into a leading partner for modern finance and business higher education in the Baltic Sea Region. This is why we are starting to cooperate more with international companies operating in the global market and also in the Baltic Sea Region. Such cooperation gives students a broader vision of international trade and logistics, and provides international experience when studying and working in Latvia.”
Rodions Sirjajevs, CEO of MSC Shared Service Center Riga:
“We are delighted to expand our cooperation with the BA School of Business and Finance which is a leading Latvian university in the field of finance and entrepreneurship. The addition of the university’s future professionals to our team enriches the company’s knowledge and working capabilities, which are particularly important in the changing logistics and container shipping industry.”
MSC Shared Service Center Riga is part of MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, a market leader in global logistics and maritime container shipping. MSC is a family-owned company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with offices in more than 155 countries, employing 200,000 people. MSC Shared Service Center Riga has been operating in Latvia since 2000, providing professional customer service, finance, IT, HR administration and a range of other services to the company’s offices around the world. The BASBF offers a number of professional bachelor’s and master’s degree programes in finance and business, as well as a short-cycle study programe to qualify as an accountant. All study programes include practical skills that play a very important role in all the programes, thus helping students to enter the labour market more quickly. We are pleased that in the spring of 2023, the portal prakse.lv ranked the BASBF as one of the TOP5 universities in a survey of more than 2700 employers.
Students of the BASBF have already had the opportunity to get acquainted with the activities of MSC Shared Service Center Riga during the annual Career Days and internships. We are looking forward to more cooperation in the future!
The Letter of Intent was signed at the premises of MSC Shared Service Center Riga, Riga, Uriekstes iela 2a