Finance Operations Analyst - 6 months Contractual role

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are—with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody’s is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we’re advancing AI to move from insight to action—enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.
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. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.Skills and Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on data quality and accuracy.
• Experience managing financial databases, expense tracking, and reporting tools.
• Ability to reconcile invoices, manage Statements of Work (SOWs), and drive process improvements using automation.
• Excellent attention to detail and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Motivated, proactive, and eager to learn new skills while tackling complex challenges.
• Solid understanding of basic accounting concepts and financial operations.
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
  

Responsibilities

• Ensures accurate tracking, reconciliation, and reporting of non-compensation expenses and SOW-related invoicing for FP&A.
• Maintain and update the non-compensation expense database, ensuring all expense categories are properly captured.
• Refresh data on a bi-weekly basis and update key baseline assumptions for expense forecasting.
• Collect and incorporate feedback from business partners to reconcile discrepancies.
• Coordinate with Procurement to ensure the system of record is updated (e.g., vendor, cost center changes).
• Maintain and update a list of investments with relevant attributes (e.g., expected spend, term dates).
• Reconcile and input actual expense data monthly.
• Pull invoices from SAP and match them against individual SOWs to track against forecasted expense.
• Validate correct coding of invoices (GL accounts, cost centers) and highlight discrepancies.
• Assist in managing the refresh cycle of dashboards/reports for non-compensation expenses and investment tracking.
• Document standard operating procedures (SOPs) for maintaining the non-compensation expense database.
  

About The Team

Our Finance team is responsible for supporting Moody’s FP&A functions, ensuring financial accuracy, and enabling strategic decision-making. By joining our team, you will be part of exciting work in financial operations, data management, and process improvement.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.