Financial Analyst

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The Role
The Financial Analyst role has the responsibility of providing support across Moody’s Corporation to provide Finance stakeholder support on position management along with headcount planning and budgeting processes. This role works closely with HR, Finance, and departmental leaders to ensure alignment of staffing plans with financial goals, ensuring data accuracy and compliance with organizational policies. The FA is responsible for conducting and processing large amounts of financial data on a regular basis.

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 responsibilities:
* Managing and analysing workforce data, overseeing position control, and providing insights to support headcount planning.
* Maintain and manage the position management database, ensuring data integrity for headcount tracking, job positions, and organizational structures.
* Ensure all position changes (e.g., creation, reclassification, or deletion of roles) are accurately reflected in financial systems.
* Partner with HR and Finance teams to validate position data in relation to workforce planning, recruitment, and budgeting efforts.
* Support headcount planning and forecasting by collaborating with FP&A and leadership teams
* Provide analysis on workforce trends, vacancy rates, and turnover to inform strategic decisions
* Track position vacancies, new hires, and terminations to ensure alignment with budget and resource plans
* Analyse the financial impact of staffing changes and provide recommendations for optimizing resource allocations.
* Ensure that position management supports headcount forecasting, headcount reporting, and variance analysis.
* Prepare and present regular reports on position status, headcount trends, variances to senior leadership.
* Partner with department managers to align staffing needs with financial goals and strategic plans.
* Act as a liaison between the FP&A team and other departments to improve data flow and reporting accuracy.
* 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 members
* Provide support on the analytical, forecasting, month end and variance analysis reporting inclusive of expense research / support

Experience/Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field or other quantitative field
* 3-5 years of experience in FP&A, HR, or similar roles, preferably with a focus on position control or workforce planning 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
* Advance Excel and VBA knowledge is preferred
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

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.