AVP-Financial Planning & Analysis

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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. 

Skills and Competencies

• Exceptional Stakeholder Management. Proven ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels, from entry-level team members to senior executives, adapting communication styles to suit different personalities and navigating challenging stakeholder dynamics with ease. Exposure to deal with high-level problem-solving skills and covering new challenges
• Proactiveness, ensuring alignment with management expectation
• Able to work both self-directed as well 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
• Able to manage complex financial data and deploy financial models and forecasts mechanism
• Highly motivated, participative as a change agent mentality that can provide financial leadership
• Share knowledge of business performance and market to provide guidance to the other team members and assist to senior management
• Manage direct resources as assigned in order to deliver on stated objectives
• Excellent verbal & written English skills
• Exposure to multidimensional reporting applications is essential (e.g. Hyperion Planning and Essbase)
• Comfortable with both quantitative and qualitative analysis, ability to leverage data to inform business decisions
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (preferably: Office 365), financial modelling and related financial systems
• Advanced analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of accounting concepts
• Experience supervising and mentoring analysts, preferably as a direct line report and working with senior leaders on financial planning and/or reporting

Education

• Post-graduate qualification in Finance, Accounting, Statistics or other quantitative field (e.g. MBA, CPA/CA, CIMA, ACCA)
• 9+ years of relevant experience in Financial Planning and analysis processes and modelling, or equivalent. Business intelligence tools, and data science experience is a plus

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:

• Manage the core planning functions: results analysis, forecasting, annual budgeting, and strategic planning. Deliver insightful and driver based presentational outputs for discussion with senior management.
• 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 value added insights and help identify key focus areas for management.
• Ensure close coordination across several different lines of business and support functions that are geographically dispersed
• Pro-actively partner with the local, regional and global contacts to ensure deliverables are met as agreed. Work closely with the senior management team on strategic operating issues, long-term strategies and profit goals through the development and implementation of financial and strategic planning
• Drive the development of new reporting solutions and develop materials for senior management presentations, discussions and reviews
• Design financial models and metrics to measure performance and highlight key areas of focus for senior management
• Create executive presentations used for business updates to both the senior management team and key business partners across MCO
• Gather internal and external market/competitive trends

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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.