Senior Manager Financial Planning & Analysis-Finance

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Skills and Competencies

• 7+ 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.
• Experience with Sales/ ARR, revenue and expense management
• Experience supervising and mentoring analysts, preferably as a direct line report and working with senior leaders on financial planning and/or reporting.
• Exposure to multidimensional reporting applications is essential (e.g. Hyperion Planning and Essbase) and/ or Salesforce.
• 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 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).

Responsibilities

• Own and lead business partnering and relationship management with key stakeholders across product, sales and strategy teams. Help connect commercial strategy, macro-economic conditions and sales deployment with: forecasts, budget, 5 year strategic plan, etc. Deliver driver based presentational outputs for discussion with senior management.
• Drive investment decision making, aligning capital allocation with growth initiatives. Build out and manage product profitability reporting that will enable effective decision making. Lead efficiency initiatives and resource redeployment for non-strategic products.
• Lead and drive various meetings with senior management on key financial metrics, including the development of new reporting solutions, identifying key focus areas developing materials for senior management presentations, discussions and reviews.
• Lead the implementations of best practices for enhancements to current processes across business and finance functions through process improvement initiatives, new technology adoption or building on cross functional relationships.
• Provide formal guidance or on the job training to all team members.

About the team

Join our Finance team as a Senior Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis where you will play a key role in driving accurate and timely reporting for senior leadership. As a seasoned analyst with strong financial modeling skills, you will lead strategic analysis and mentor team members to enhance global planning functions. Be part of a dynamic and collaborative team environment where your expertise in financial analytics and project management will contribute to the success of our financial planning initiatives.

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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.