Operations 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

The Role / Responsibilities:
The Global Assignment Management team is responsible for ensuring that all analyst assignments are in compliance with all applicable regulation and policies including Analyst Rotation requirements globally. This includes review of all pending analyst assignments for compliance with applicable rules, execution of assignment changes, tracking of accrued time-on and cooling-off, reviewing activity of analysts on cooling-off for adherence to restrictions, and investigating and reporting potential cooling off breaches.
The Operations Analyst within the Global Assignment Management (GAM) team is responsible to manage the end-to-end process and team of individuals responsible processing analyst assignments globally. This includes maintaining process metrics, reporting to business stakeholders and senior management, and investigation of process exceptions.
The individual will work closely with a variety of key stakeholders across the MIS organization and will be responsible for.
- Proactively identifying opportunities to standardize business processes and enhance operational controls and efficiencies
- Demonstrate Subject Matter Expertise on Analyst Assignments and Analyst Rotation well as applicable Policies, Procedures and Guidelines
- Coordinate with the Rating Teams and other Moody’s teams (e.g. Compliance, MIS Technology, Global Middle Office, etc.) to effectively resolve outstanding requests/inquiries
- Executing analyst re-assignments, generating regulatory and management reporting and implement processes ensuring high level of accuracy
- Support senior management by maintaining status reports; tracking issues, risks, and dependencies; generating performance metrics and owning the content of Standard Operating Procedures, etc.
- Provide business process training and create/update supporting content and training materials (e.g. Internal Handbook, Guidance documents, Trainings, Quick Reference Guides, Best Practices etc.)

This is a limited duration employment opportunity.
- Undergraduate BA/BS degree in business, finance/economics, management or similar field; MBA a plus
- 5-10 years of operational control, business process and/or business analysis experience with strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to interact comfortably with different levels of management and articulate/present issues clearly and succinctly
- Self-starter and team player with ability to meet tight deadlines and balance multiple, competing priorities
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to reach across organization to successfully resolve requests/inquiries
- Highly organized and efficient, with an attention to detail and excellent communication skills
- Ability to supervise, facilitate, negotiate, and resolve interpersonal or inter-team conflicts
- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills (including VBA)
- Excellent Powerpoint and visualization skills a must; knowledge of PowerBI and other data analytics/visualization tools a plus
- Knowledge of Moody’s rating systems, analysis tools and operational processes a plus

LI-RA
- Regulatory Support & Controls
- 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.
- Moody’s Investors Service is among the world’s most respected and widely utilized sources for credit ratings and research. Our opinions and analysis on a broad range of credit obligors and obligations are valued around the world for their insight and rigor.
- At MIS, our workplace culture supports our mission to be the Agency of Choice for our customers, employees and future employees. Our Culture focuses on Excellence and embodies behavioral qualities such as Integrity, Responsiveness, Collaboration, Respect and Passion. Our people are our core asset and we look beyond outcomes to ensure that behaviors and interactions matter.