Moody's Analytics

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Moody’s Analytics aids capital markets and risk management professionals respond to an evolving marketplace. We offer unique tools for measuring and managing risk through expertise in credit analysis, economic research and financial risk management. www.moodysanalytics.com.

Research Associate: Join the Risk and Finance Research team which provides forward-looking research and thought leadership in the financial risk arena. Members have diverse backgrounds including finance, economics, econometrics, statistics, engineering, accounting, climate, and mathematics.

Responsibilities may include:
• Conducting theoretical and empirical research on measurements of portfolio credit risk, market risk and enterprise risk management
• Collaborate with researchers and data analysts on projects
• Implement and test research ideas through prototype and partner with product management engineering teams to deploy completed research software solutions
• Present research findings to audiences internally and externally

Qualifications:
• Ph. D., or completion of coursework required by a Ph.D. program, in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Statistics or a closely related quantitative field
• Research experience in econometric modeling and/or theoretical asset pricing
• Experience with programming tools such as Python, Julia, or R
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Other desirable qualifications:
• Knowledge of financial accounting and reporting
• Experience with non-traditional data sources