Assistant Director - Quantitative Financial Analyst

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are—with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody’s is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we’re advancing AI to move from insight to action—enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.

If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity. 

As a Quantitative Financial Analyst, you will analyze and assure the quality of financial statistics produced by our leading-edge asset liability management products. This is an opportunity to help develop the latest breed of financial applications based on world-class financial research.

Primary Responsibilities

• Review financial analytics requirements and work with Research, Engineering and Product Management to design testing plan and testing strategy for various financial models
• Develop analytics prototypes and benchmarks for testing
• Create test cases, execute tests, analyze testing results and provide summary reports to the project team
• Execute and maintain automation test suites, regression tests, and testing systems
• Provide 2nd tier support on modeling questions to MA clients

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field such as Financial Engineering, Engineering, Science or closely-related field
• Superb analytical skills and persistence in analytical and problem solving, quantitative approach to understanding problems in finance
• Academic training or experience in Financial Risk Models, Fixed income analysis, Balance sheet management
• Data mining experience with large financial databases (SQL, Oracle, Sybase) and data files in csv, txt, and XML format
• Strong R (or other Statistical packages) and MatLab skills
• Programming experience in VB, Python, C#, C++ or Java
• Ability to work independently on multiple tasks as well as a good team player
• Must be detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and well organized
• Demonstrated creativity, flexibility, enthusiasm and willingness to learn and ensure ongoing self-development
• Basic understanding of artificial intelligence concepts, with curiosity and enthusiasm for learning how AI tools can be used to improve processes and drive efficiency. Interest in exploring AI systems and a willingness to develop awareness of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

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.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.