Sr Mgr-fin Planning

Moody's is a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions.

**The Role**
The Senior Manager provides support through all phases of the financial planning and analysis processes including business partnering and working on cross functional projects. Also leading and driving improvements in FP&A processes to support business strategies.

**Key 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:
Own and lead the preparation and communication of monthly reports and variance analysis, in a timely manner. Including the use of financial KPI analysis and identifying historical trends that will offer valuable insights and help identify key focus areas for management.

Owner and lead the business planning processes and results: forecast, budget, 5-year strategic plan, etc. Deliver driver-based outputs for discussion with management.

Actively partner with the local, regional and global contacts to ensure deliverables are met as agreed.

Lead and drive various meetings with senior management on key financial metrics. Including the development of new reporting solutions, identifying key focus areas developing materials for senior management presentations, discussions and reviews.

Lead the implementations of methodologies for enhancements to current processes and reporting, including identifying areas for productivity and driving the standardization of activities across business planning to harness efficiencies.

Lead and suggest the development of planning systems, processes and outputs to identify and recommend areas of improvement to offer valuable insights into drivers.

Provide formal guidance or the job training to all team members.

Lead and guide projects as assigned by Senior Finance management.

**Qualifications**:

- Post-graduate qualification in Finance, Accounting, Statistics or other quantitative field (e.g. MBA, CPA/CA, CIMA, ACCA).
- 7+ years of proven experience in Financial Planning and analysis processes and modelling, or equivalent. Business intelligence tools, and data science experience is a plus.
- 2+ years' experience supervising and mentoring analysts, preferably as a direct line report and working with senior leaders on financial planning and/or reporting.
- Solid understanding of accounting concepts.
- Excellent verbal & written English level.
- 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 modelling and related financial systems.
- Advanced analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills.

**Key Compeencies**:

- Desire to deal with high-level problem-solving skills and covering new challenges..
- Excellent attention to detail, able to work large amounts of data, able to assess other's team member's deliverables..
- 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.
- Share knowledge of business performance and market to provide guidance to the other team members and assist to senior management.
- Highly motivated, participative as a change agent mentality that can provide financial leadership.

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.