Mgr-fin Planning

Moody's is a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions.
- Team/Department Description:
A successful FP&A senior manager for the Digital Insights & Structured Finance operating unit will aid in the development and execution of high-quality management reports, investment plans and operating model strategies to maximize the value of the business.
- Role/Responsibilities:
**Functional Responsibilities**:

- ** Ensure close connection between operational actions and financial results and forecasts.**

Provide business management team with reporting, performance diagnostics and insights that highlight the impacts of operational decisions (e.g., hiring, pricing strategies, investments, etc) on financial performance
Ensure regular cadence of high-quality, timely, credible and insightful reporting related to key business drivers.
Liaise with accounting and global business services functions to ensure management reporting is accurate and fit for decision-making.
- ** Adapt corporate financial planning cycles to business operating cycles.**

Balance support for quarterly and annual planning cycles with transparent, rolling, interactive financial models that enable executive-level investment decision-making (e.g., go/no-go on multi-phased investment) as well as variable adjustments to financial forecasts (e.g., sales outperformance/COGS) on an ongoing basis.
Develop cost efficiency strategies to ensure maximum allocation of capital towards investment and/or improved business margins.
- ** People management**

Attract, train, retain top talent in Finance department.
Influence, motivate and collaborate with other Finance team members, in support of cross-functional business initiatives and to ensure streamlining of finance business support processes.
Provide active leadership to both the finance and business teams, developing and championing excellence and change processes (people process systems)
- ** Special projects**

Able to manage cross-functional and cross-team initiatives.
Organize and execute project plan with influence over peers and indirect reports.
- Qualifications:
**Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities**:

- Proactive, strategic thinker
- Strong analytical and project management skills
- Superior problem-solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with executive management.
- Must be detail oriented, ensuring accuracy and quality of reporting and other deliverables.
- Excellent interpersonal and people management skills
- Ability to provide constructive and robust challenge to business management.
- Ability to work effectively with other functional areas to understand the operational and cultural issues relevant to achieving superior results.
- Hyper client focused with tenacity to resolve issues and conflicts.
- High energy individual with enthusiasm for business partnering with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a dual reporting matrix environment.
- Ability to work with key stakeholders across time zones.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- 7+ years in business strategy or finance role
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or engineering

Moody's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

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