Job Description

Location(s):

  • MIS Support Center, 4th floor, East Tower, Eurocenter Business Center, in front of Cenada, Heredia, 40104, CR

Line Of Business: Finance(FIN)

Job Category:

  • Corporate Services

Experience Level: Experienced Hire

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. 

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

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in Financial Planning and analysis processes and modelling, or equivalent. Business intelligence tools, and data science experience is a plus
  • Excellent verbal & written English skills
  • Exposure to multidimensional reporting applications is essential (e.g. Hyperion Planning and Essbase)
  • 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 modeling and related financial systems
  • Advanced analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills
  • Strong knowledge of basic accounting concepts
  • Desire to learn new skills with high-level problem-solving skills and covering new challenges
  • Excellent attention to detail, able to work large amounts of data, able to review/assess other's team member's deliverables
  • Proactiveness, ensuring alignment with business requirements and management expectation
  • Ability 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
  • Ability 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
  • Highly motivated, participative as a change agent mentality that can provide financial leadership

Education

  • Post-graduate qualification in Finance, Accounting, Statistics or other quantitative field (e.g. MBA, CPA/CA, CIMA, ACCA)

Responsibilities

The Manager - Finance, Planning and Analysis is a managerial role, with overall line management responsibility for a small team. The Manager is in charge of business forecasting and corresponding budgets as well as performance-based analyses. The FP&A Manager aims to predict future financial outcomes by considering economic and business trends, reviewing past company performance, in the forecasting and budgeting process

  • Lead, supervise and review the preparation of the 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
  • Lead, supervise and review the business planning processes and deliverables: forecast, budget, 5 year strategic plan, etc. Deliver driver based presentational outputs for discussion with senior management
  • Actively 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
  • Lead and review the development of new reporting solutions
  • Play a key role to proactively lead and evaluate the recommendation and implementations of best practices for enhancements to current processes and reporting, including identifying area's for productivity and driving the standardization of activities across business planning to harness efficiencies
  • Provide formal guidance or on the job training to all team members
  • Lead, supervise and review special projects as assigned by Senior Finance management

About the team

The FP&A Team provides intermediate and advanced support through all phases of the financial planning and analysis processes including business partnering and working on cross functional projects.

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.

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