Moody's is a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions.
**Role/Responsibilities**:
The Senior Financial Analyst has the responsibility of providing and sophisticated support through all phases of the planning and analysis processes, which includes supporting all phases of the incentive compensation planning process and working on cross functional projects. The SFA is an and strategically 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, interpersonal, and skills and be able to present financial information and models in a manner.
Support the execution of planning and analysis processes, projects, and ad-hoc requests as the need arises by the Finance organization by embracing the following responsibilities:
- Responsible for forecast modelling, monthly accruals and reporting for incentive compensation programs.
- Partner with People team to ensure analytics and comments are provided in executive and presentations.
- Provide support on the 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 results: forecast, budget, 5-year strategic plan, etc. Deliver driver-based outputs for discussion with senior management.
- Partner with the local, regional and global contacts and communicate optimally with the business to develop 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 improvements to current processes and reporting, including identifying areas for productivity and driving the standardization of activities across business planning to harness efficiencies.
- Conduct financial important metrics analysis, compare anticipated and actual results, conduct thorough research of historical financial data and trends to identify and recommend areas of improvement to offer valuable insights into drivers.
- Develop and update financial models to assist in strategic initiatives and support critical decisions through financial projections and important 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 another quantitative field (e.g. MBA, CPA/CA, CIMA, ACCA)
- 3 - 5 years of proven 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 efficiently communicate findings/analysis to senior team member management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (preferably: Office 365), modeling and systems
- Advanced analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- Intermediate knowledge of basic accounting concepts
**Key Competencies**:
- Desire to learn new skills with high-level problem-solving skills and covering new challenges.
- Phenomenal attention to detail and able to cross check outputs with other data sources, recurring processes avoiding error.
- Able to work both independently and as a member of a team by interacting and collaborating with members of teams across the organization.
- Appetite for new challenges; flexible with last minute changes in commitments and deadlines; able to adapt to changes and balance multiple priorities.
- Applies knowledge and problem-solving techniques to define and resolve problem.
- Able to handle 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 intermediate/sophisticated support to the business planning processes and deliverables..
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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