Research Data Analyst

Moodys
San Francisco - United States
S: Competitive

Role/Responsibilities

The Research Data Analyst will be a part of the group that sources and maintains the credit risk data that is vital to the success of Moody's Analytics' (MA) market leading credit risk models and consulting services. The successful candidate will also participate in state of the art research with our renowned quantitative research team in the area of credit risk.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Analyze and Quality Control company financial statement and loan portfolio information in MA's global Credit Research Database (CRD)
- Standardize data formats from multiple data sources into CRD standards
- Analyze patterns and discrepancies in the credit data provided
- Produce reports that describe data characteristics and highlight trends and issues
- Perform data analyses, and be comfortable with statistics and relational databases.
- Investigate and research foreign and domestic companies to locate information on defaults and bankruptcies using a variety of sources including financial reports, news and online sources
- Maintain and continuously improve quality control on collected information, source search, extracting and reporting information for Research Team

Qualifications

- Requires Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting or a closely related field
- Excellent organizational and communication skills Attention to detail and the ability to learn quickly.
- Ability to read and understand Financial statements
- Familiarity with US GAAP, IFRS, and other regional accounting principles is a plus
- Experience or academic training in: Bloomberg media, MS Access, MS Excel, and Structured Query Language (SQL), SAS, financial data analysis and management is a strong plus
- Knowledge of relational database design strongly preferred
- Reading ability in other foreign languages (e.g. Spanish, Korean, Japanese, or Russian) is a plus

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