Senior Financial Analyst

**What Moody's Corporation Has to Offer**:
Moody's is an essential component of the global capital markets, providing credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody's supports independent thought and promotes a work environment that values and maximizes the contributions of all employees. Moody's offers their employees:

- Commuter Benefit Plan
- Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Educational Assistance
- Financial Planning
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Parental Leave

Position objective is to provide financial analytics and reporting related to Moody’s Analytics (MA) consolidation function, support through all phases of the financial planning and analysis processes and projects

Functional Responsibilities
Support the execution of financial planning and analysis processes, projects, and ad-hoc requests as required by the Finance organization by embracing the following responsibilities:

- Provide intermediate/advanced support on the analytical, forecasting, month end and variance analysis reporting and Ad Hoc projects based on business needs
- Provide intermediate/advance support to the preparation of the monthly reports and variance analysis that will help identify key focus areas for management, in a timely manner
- Provide intermediate/advance support to the input of forecast and budget projections and adjustments into Moody’s financial reporting system
- Provide intermediate/advanced support to the business planning processes and deliverables: forecast, budget, strategic plan, etc. and support preparation of materials for senior management - onshore team and internal client’s presentations, discussions and reviews
- Partner with the local, regional and global contacts and communicate effectively with the business to foster good working relationships with the rest of the organization
- Provide intermediate/advanced support on the development of new reporting solutions and identifying key focus areas for management
- Maintain up-to-date record of process documents
- Recommend and implement best practices for improvements/enhancements to current processes and reporting, drive standardization of activities including the identification of productivity and efficiency
- Conduct financial KPIs analysis, compare anticipated and actual results, conduct thorough research of historical financial data and trends to identify and recommend areas of improvement to offer value added insights into drivers
- Develop financial models, including the use of macros and through benchmarking and process analysis
- Provide informal guidance or on the job training to other team members
- Collaborate in special projects as assigned by Finance management

Scope/Supervision and Interaction
- Makes decisions appropriate for level of responsibility
- Raises concerns to the appropriate level of management and keeps management informed of activities
- Interacts with different teams across Finance in different countries, Corporate Planning, Accounting and Finance organization, Hyperion systems, etc.
- Develops stable working relationships internally (Business and Corporate Planning colleagues, Accounting, Treasury, HR). Limited interaction with Finance stakeholders
- Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics or other quantitative field
- 3 - 5 years of relevant experience in Financial Planning and analysis processes, modelling, business intelligence tools, and data science experience is a plus
- Detail and data quality oriented and capable to summarize and effectively communicate findings/analysis to senior stakeholder management
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (preferably: Office 365), financial modeling and related financial systems
- Advanced analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- Intermediate/advance knowledge of basic accounting concepts
- FP&A budgeting and planning cycle knowledge and experience, financial modelling experience is preferred
- Experience in using Business Intelligence tools
- Proficiency of reading/writing codes for financial models will be an advantage

Key Competencies
- Desire to learn new skills with high-level problem-solving skills and covering new challenges
Excellent attention to detail and able to improve and complete recurring processes avoiding error
- Proactiveness, ensuring alignment with business requirements and management expectation
- Able to work both independently and as a member of a team by interacting and collaborating with members of other teams across the organization
- Demonstrates flexibility with last minute changes in commitments, deadlines, and meetings attendance
- Able to work under deadlines with sometimes competing priorities
- Applies knowledge and advanced problem solving techniques to define and resolve problems
- Intermediate / advanced knowledge of Business Intelligence and Data Science is a plus
- Able to handle large volumes of data while ensuring data accuracy