Senior Director, Climate Model Solutions Specialist

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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. 

The Moody’s Climate Center of Excellence plays a crucial role in informing climate risk across the financial services industry serving banking, investors and corporates. This role offers an exciting opportunity for those passionate about climate risk to educate the market about current and emerging climate risks and work closely with internal and external stakeholders to develop risk insight and solutions to address this complex need.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a keen understanding of our wide range of customers and use-cases, and identify opportunities for scaling Moody’s climate solutions into new or emerging segments.
• Engage with clients on climate risk assessment needs and delivering Moody’s climate products and solutions. Confidence to educate clients on state of science and opinions, comparing and contrasting views, while supporting Moody’s modeling approach.
• Research, understand and synthesize requirements as respects modeling of future climate risk to support key business activities. Keen understanding of scientific research into climate change and developing views on climate risk.
• Engage with regulators to represent Moody’s solutions and the development of regulatory standards.
• Support and promote Moody’s thought leadership activities around climate change, including the development of analytical content and market-specific case studies.
• Collaboration across a wide range of Moody’s Analytics teams, including modelling, consulting, sales, product, and client relationship managers to support successful creation of climate solutions using both off-the-shelf and bespoke capabilities.
• Development of documentation which describes the approaches taken in Moody’s climate solutions, targeting a wide range of audiences.

Required qualifications and skills:

• The ideal candidate will hold a MSc or PhD in a climate-related field such as climate science, meteorology or related, with a deep interest in the application of climate science into financial services decision making (e.g., banking)
• 5+ years’ experience in developing catastrophe risk or actuarial modelling frameworks.
• Knowledge of financial regulatory disclosures, especially climate change related disclosures. Experience engaging directly with regulators is beneficial.
• Able to lead multiple projects across international cross-functional teams, have excellent organization and time management skills, and be able to build solid relationships.
• A deep interest in understanding end-user business needs, market trends and driving successful solutions for clients. Experience engaging with banking use cases is beneficial.
• Excellent communication skills and versatility in engaging in technical subjects to a varied client base, with the ability to explain technical subjects to non-technical and business end-users.
• Demonstrated experience of data analysis and/or strong capability with data processing programming languages or applications e.g. python, R, or similar.
• Experience in the publishing and delivery of thought leadership demonstrated in research, publications and speaking engagements is beneficial.
• An excellent team player with a high-degree of self-motivation and ability to work independently, with experience of handling changing priorities effectively.
• Must have good English written and oral communications skills, and strong presentation skills.
• Some travel may be required.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $208,200.00 - $301,950.00, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion, national origin, citizen status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Moody’s also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about a reasonable accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email accommodations@moodys.com. This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

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