AVP, Business Analysis recruitment

Responsibilities
Objective: This position is a part of Moody's Pyramid team, which focuses on the business side of application and product development for the Pyramid Ratings to Billing solution. An AVP is recognized by everyone in the organization as a knowledgeable and accomplished performer who makes important contributions to every project they work on. This position is part of the Business Analysis Job Family.

Functional Responsibilities: This individual will serve as the primary contact with business clients to elicit requirements and validate requirements and designs developing and maintaining strong relationships, and keeping these clients informed and engaged throughout the entire project lifecycle. This individual will also work closely with product management and with the application development teams to provide support for their work products and to act as an informed customer advocate within the development team. This individual will also be responsible for detailed, high-quality documentation which meets the needs of the various project stakeholders. This individual may work both on enhancements to existing systems and on new development either as the primary Business Analyst or collaborating with other Business Analysts. Specific responsibilities for the position may include:

- Independently managing requirements- and design-related activities for complex projects that cross multiple systems and have multiple stake-holder types.
- Maintaining a strong understanding of Moody's business processes, strategies, market dynamics and competitive landscape as well as IT capabilities and capacity, and filtering and prioritizing by customer demand and business impact.
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships, and keeping clients informed and engaged throughout the entire project lifecycle.
- Partnering with technical architects to assure that technical models are aligned with business models.
- Resolving any conflicts with requirements between business units or between business and technology.
- Supporting Business Requirements activities by providing end-to-end analysis for product and initiatives with respect to data requirements, data flows, data modeling, workflow context and design, and user interface designs within and across Moody's systems.
- Authoring thorough, detailed, high-quality documentation of all aspects of the systems in question, including business requirements, use cases, and Business System Concept documents.
- Adding to/Updating existing logical data models and creating entirely new logical data models.
- Independently designing highly usable interaction models and screens for entirely new or substantially re-imagined applications.
- Managing technical appropriateness and/or feasibility of requirements and designs.
- Obtaining signoffs and manage requirements change.
- Actively managing Stakeholders of all levels by leading discussions of project scope and approach, and presenting business analysis findings/documentation and proposed solutions.
- Facilitating the development of business cases to support investment.
- Challenging others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model in words, actions, and results.

Scope/Supervision and Interaction
Works collaboratively with Project Managers, Development/Application Managers, Technical Architects, Quality Assurance Managers and others to ensure effective cross-project communication and issue management.

Qualifications
Minimum education and work experience required for this position include:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
- At least 8 to 10 years experience in various aspects of systems development, including development, architecture, project management, business analysis, UI design, information architecture, data modeling, etc. with a minimum of 5 years in a Business Analyst position. Experience in multiple areas is required.
- Experience with a large, functionally diverse, and informed user base that demands high quality applications is desired.
- Experience with business process engineering organizational change management, performing cost-benefit analyses, data modeling, normalization, and SQL queries are all desirable.

The key competencies for this position include:
- Strong meeting/workshop facilitation skills and documented experience.
- Strong leadership skills across both single disciple and multi-disciple teams.
- Strong requirements elicitation and modeling skills and experience with requirements management.
- Strong skills in User Interface design in web and client-server environments, multi-system application integration, developing workflow and functional Use Cases.
- Strong experience designing or implementing systems based on case management, workflow management, or workflow-based off-the-shelf products.
- Demonstrated experience with iterative or agile project methodologies.
- Familiarity with multiple architectures: n-tier, .NET, client-server, etc.
- Fundamental understanding of software development lifecycle methodologies (including waterfall, RUP, and/or Agile) and industry best practices.
- Self-directed, adaptable, flexible, and curious.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to author a range of high-quality deliverables.
- Proven track record of the ability to identify and interpret business requirements into application requirements and IT solutions.
- Proven ability to articulate complex application requirements and functionality to IT peers.
- Broad knowledge of capital markets and the role that Moody's Investor Services plays within them.
- Strong knowledge of Moody's custom applications or demonstrated ability to rapidly become familiar with custom applications and how they have been architected; ability to articulate the value of custom solutions to Moody's stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large numbers of different and often conflicting objectives/activities at one time.
- Experience in quickly and effectively adjusting priorities and goals in changing circumstances.
- Proven customer service skills required in order to create, maintain and enhance customer relationships. Previous client relationship management experience desirable.
- The ability to quickly and effectively adjust priorities and goals in changing circumstances.
- The ability to take on leadership roles by managing and leading a large team of geographically distributed application development and support IT specialists.
- Project management skills (managing risks, status reporting, etc) for multi-disciplinary, multi-phase IT development projects.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Moody's Corporation is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in its recruitment practices. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are dedicated to the fair and equal treatment of potential and existing employees, candidates and clients regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, age or any other characteristic protected by law.