Moody's is a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions.
**The Role**
The Senior Financial Analyst has the responsibility of providing intermediate and high-level support through all phases of the financial planning and analysis processes, including business partnering and working on cross functional projects. The SFA is a meticulous and strategically minded individual of the finance team able to perform a broad range of financial activities including planning, analysis, budgeting, and reporting. The SFA should also have strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills and be able to present financial information and models in a concise and easily comprehensible manner.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Support the execution of financial planning and analysis processes, projects, and ad-hoc requests as required by the Finance organization by adopting the following responsibilities:
- Provide 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/advance support to business planning processes and deliverables: Forecast, budget, 5-year strategic plan, etc. Deliver driver-based outputs for discussion with management.
- 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 support on the development of new reporting solutions and identifying key focus areas for management.
- Recommend and implement standard methodologies for enhancements to processes and reporting, including identifying areas for productivity and driving the standardization of activities across business planning to harness efficiencies.
- 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 beneficial insights into drivers.
- Develop and update financial models to assist in central initiatives and support critical decisions through financial projections and critical metrics.
- Provide informal guidance or on the job training to other team members.
- Collaborate in special projects as assigned by Finance management.
**Qualifications**:
- Studying towards post-graduate qualification in Finance, Accounting, Statistics or quantitative field (e.g. MBA, CPA/CA, CIMA, ACCA).
- 3 - 5 years of relevant experience in Financial Planning or equivalent. Analysis processes, modelling, business intelligence tools, and data science experience is a plus.
- Excellent verbal & written English skills.
- Detail and data quality oriented and capable to summarize and effectively communicate findings/analysis to senior team member management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (preferably: Office 365), financial modeling and related financial systems
- Advanced analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- Intermediate knowledge of basic accounting concepts
**Key Competencies**:
- Desire to learn, with high-level problem-solving skills and covering new challenges.
- Phenomenal attention to detail and able to cross check outputs with data sources, finish recurring processes avoiding error.
- 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 changes in commitments, deadlines, and meetings attendance.
- Applies knowledge and problem-solving techniques to define and resolve problem.
- Able to handle large volumes of data while ensuring data accuracy, including the ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to draw conclusions and assist on decision making.
- Able to provide sophisticated support to the business planning processes and results.
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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