Moody's US | Assistant Vice President, Cloud Economics Finance Partner

Responsibilities

• If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply!
• You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles.
• Our Moody's Analytics Finance team is responsible for delivering strategic financial partnership across Engineering, Product, and Technology organizations, driving cloud economics transparency, investment governance, and data-driven decision support that advances Moody's mission to decode risk and unlock opportunity.
• In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation.
• This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
• Leads cloud economics strategy and financial partnership across Moody's Analytics (MA) Engineering, Product, and FinOps to drive transparency and executive decision support.
• Build trusted relationships across Engineering, Product, FinOps, and Finance teams, representing Finance in cloud-related planning, forecasting, investment, and governance discussions.
• Support and enhance driver-based cloud consumption models across key MA products, connecting product usage, engineering activity, migrations, architecture decisions, and roadmap investments to cloud spend outcomes.
• Lead cloud forecasting activities, support annual planning and rolling forecasts, and perform driver-based variance analysis that translates cloud spend movements into executive-ready business narratives.
• Prepare materials and actionable insights for senior Finance leadership and MA executives, presenting findings and recommendations that support cloud investment and governance decisions across Engineering and Product leadership.
• Serve as Finance's primary business partner to MA Engineering, Product, and Technology leadership for cloud spend, cloud economics, and cloud investment decisions, with a focus on understanding and translating the business and engineering drivers behind cloud spend
• Build product-level cloud cost transparency and attribution frameworks, partnering with FinOps teams on tagging governance, allocation methodologies, product mapping, unit economics, marketplace consumption, and commitment management

Skills and competencies

• 8–10+ years of experience across Technology Finance, Cloud Economics, Engineering Finance, Product Finance, FinOps, or related disciplines.
• Executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences and influence without direct authority.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge assumptions constructively and drive data-driven decision-making across Finance, Engineering, and Product teams.
• 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.
• Strong understanding of product economics, unit economics, cost-to-serve analysis, cloud consumption drivers, and consumption-based pricing models, including experience with platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, or similar environments
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Engineering and Product organizations to translate technical decisions and operational metrics – including customers, transactions, users, API calls, compute hours, storage, and model usage – into financial insights, investment decisions, and executive narratives
• Strong financial modeling and scenario analysis capabilities, with proven experience building and managing driver-based consumption models and forecasts that connect customer growth, product usage, engineering activity, infrastructure demand, and cloud spend

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