Moody's US | Vice President, Finance Transformation & Data Strategy

Responsibilities

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• The Finance Transformation and Strategy team leads the evolution of how Finance operates at Moody's — modernizing our systems and data foundation, embedding innovation and automation, and delivering the capabilities that enable Finance to function as a forward-looking, data-driven organization.
• Within this team, our Finance Data Strategy and Governance group enables trusted, accessible data and turns ambiguous business problems into working solutions.
• By joining our team, you will contribute to high-impact work spanning Finance transformation, data engineering, and analytics across our global Finance organization.
• Drives Finance data strategy by bridging senior leadership and delivery teams to produce high-impact data products and roadmap outcomes.
• Set direction and own delivery outcomes for Finance data products, partnering with engineering, analytics, and automation teams to deliver solutions end-to-end—defining what success looks like and driving toward it, not just documenting requirements
• Own and evolve the strategic data roadmap for Finance, sequencing priorities, aligning delivery to stakeholder outcomes, and serving as a trusted advisor to senior Finance leadership by building alignment across competing needs and setting the agenda for how initiatives are scoped and delivered
• Lead solution design from problem to engineering-ready specification, authoring Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and Functional Design Documents (FDDs), proposing concrete data models and structures, and owning quality assurance (QA) and validation to ensure what ships matches the intended outcome
• Operate with significant autonomy and influence across Finance leadership while remaining deeply hands-on — rapidly prototyping solutions using SQL, Python, and AI-assisted tools, grounded in deep finance domain expertise and investigation across the Finance data stack
• Act as the data strategy lead and representative on Finance's key strategic programs, driving solution recommendations and roadmap decisions that shape investment and prioritization, while building and developing a small team of data strategists and business analysts who provide domain-aligned coverage across Finance

Requirements

• Exposure to enterprise Finance and data platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Salesforce, SAP, AWS).
• Excellent executive communication and people-leadership experience to lead a small team of data strategists.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot) to rapidly prototype and convert ambiguous problems into build-ready specifications.
• Demonstrated proficiency in artificial intelligence concepts, with hands-on experience using AI tools to streamline workflows and enhance operational efficiency.
• Proven ability to implement AI-powered solutions to solve business challenges.
• Experience with ERP order-to-cash system implementations preferred, with SAP experience strongly desired.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Python, or similar querying and scripting tools to support data analysis, validation, troubleshooting, and rapid prototyping, with the ability to leverage data in support of business analysis, solution design, and continuous improvement initiatives

Moody's US

Moody's US is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance).

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in New York.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance