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The Financial Analyst role has the responsibility of providing support across Moody's Corporation to provide Finance stakeholder support on expense management along with cost accounting. The FA is responsible for conducting and processing large amounts of financial data on a regular basis. The FA performs quality reviews to identify financial discrepancies and communicates any risk to the appropriate level.
Key Responsibilities:
Support senior members of the team in the execution of financial planning and analysis processes, projects, and ad-hoc requests as required by the Finance organization by embracing the following responsabilities:
Provide support for cost and project accounting ensuring expenses are booked to the correct location driving high quality financial reporting.Provide support to Financial planning team from expense research and support perspective. Collaborate in the preparation of the monthly reports and variance analysis that will help identify key focus areas for management, in a timely manner with moderate level of guidance from direct manager and/or senior team membersPartner with other teams in Business Planning to foster good working relationships with the rest of the organizationAssist in the development of new reporting solutions and identifying key focus areas for management Implement best practices for enhancements to current processes and reporting, including driving the standardization of activities across business planning to harness efficiencies
Qualifications :
Experience/Qualifications:
Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, or Statistics or other quantitative field
1 - 3 years of relevant financial experience with planning and analysis processes is preferred
Good verbal & written English skills
Detail and data quality oriented and capable to summarize and communicate findings/analysis
Knowledge in Microsoft Office (preferably: Office 365)
Good analytical decision-making, and problem-solving skills
Knowledge of basic accounting concepts
Key Competencies:
Desire to learn new skills and cover new challenges
Able to work with large amounts of data and utilize reporting applications and tools
Good attention to detail and able to improve and complete recurring processes avoiding error
Able to work both independently and as a member of a team by interacting and collaborating with members of other teams across the organization
Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
Applies knowledge and basic/intermediate problem solving techniques to define and resolve problems
Develop broad based knowledge of financial instruments, terminology, and related business practices of the FP&A area
* Able to provide basic/intermediate support to the business planning processes and deliverables
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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.
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