Sr Data Strategist

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The Role:
The Moody’s Finance Transformation, Data & Systems team is seeking a candidate to fill its Business analyst role to support the implementation of a cloud Data Factory. You will be joining a growing Business Systems & Solutions team and will tackle highly complex and interesting data challenges by building data models for our Business Intelligence, Analytics and Automation teams. This is a critical role where the Analyst will liaise with business users and IT teams in the gathering of requirements, design and execution of Finance data initiatives.

Functional Responsibilities

• Oversees long-term data roadmap acting as a domain owner and assessing data requirements for new products.
• Acts as the primary tester and presenter for data-driven products, ensuring they meet business requirements and user needs.
• Building a data-driven culture, fostering an environment where data is readily accessible and used to inform decision-making across all levels of the organization.
• Facilitates data sharing agreements to ensure seamless integration and compliance across systems and process owners.
• Manages and enriches the data catalog by documenting both business and technical data schemas, enhancing data discoverability and data quality criteria within the preferred data cataloguing solution.
• Establishes standards for data hierarchies and Master Data Management (MDM) within their domain, ensuring data consistency, quality and approval workflow.
• Work as a liaison between data owners across process silos.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, or equivalent
• 2+ years of experience in system operations and business analysis for IT related projects/implementation
• Technical experience with AWS Glue, AWS Data Brew, Athena query services, Snowflake and/or the data factory architecture
• Hands on experience with relational database architecture, SQL scripting and creating view reports
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate technical details into clear business context as well as fully grasping business goals in order to provide technical requirements to developers
• Financial domain knowledge with an interest in accounting processes and financial reporting and analysis
• Experience in SDLC and other project methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, etc.
• Well-developed data driven problem-solving and analytic capabilities, strong organizational, management, and communication skills
• Possess the ability to work with members of other teams across the organization and be sensitive to their needs and obligations
• Be able to pick up new software and systems quickly and self-train via all available training and internet resources
• Experience with PowerBI is a plus

The Department / Team
Finance Mission: To provide data-driven financial insight to support execution of superior, real-time operating and strategic decisions with timely and reliable financial reporting.
The Finance Transformation, GBS and Analytics team enables the Finance department with the accessibility of data, technology and analytic / BI solutions. We accelerate Finance Transformation by enabling a data-driven and digital culture.

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.