Moody’s Hiring for Assistant Director – Product Consultant Job at Dubai Full Time

As a Senior Product Consultant in the Lending implementation team, you should possess both functional and technical capabilities and will be playing a key role in various software implementation projects for our commercial and corporate loan origination solutions. In general, you will be expected to perform tasks which may include:

• Working closely with the Project Manager on planning the project activities and timeline
• Running requirement gathering workshops to understand client’s requirements and to advise clients on how the requirements will be addressed in Moody’s Lending solution
• Conducting the solution design and gap analysis
• Implementing the solution by (but not limited to) configuring/customizing user interfaces, business rules, financial templates, rating models, integration and workflow process-related aspects of the system utilizing Moody’s proprietary tool kits and/or industry standard software tools
• Liaising with internal parties on defect tracking and new functionalities
• Assisting clients on data migration and integration with 3rd party systems
• Supporting the execution of System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Providing training to clients on the usage of the system and the proprietary tool kits
• Supporting pre-sales activities if required
• Actively participating in enhancing our product knowledge database (e.g. documentation, feedback on products/project methodology, development of “how-to” entries, etc.)

The ideal candidate will have a minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information System (Finance or statistic related degree with coursework on IT can also be considered) , and minimum 2 – 3 years of relevant professional experience in software implementation projects (gained with banks, software firms, consulting firms or integrators). You will be asked to demonstrate:

• Strong software development background: experience in using an advance programming language, e.g. C#/R/AngularJS/Typescript
• Other hands-on IT skills; troubleshooting skills; knowledge of SQL, Postgres DB, scripting language and source code/version control such as GitHub strongly desired
• Capability to participate in all phases of a software implementation project
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact with internal and external business experts and IT personnel
• Ability to investigate and problem solve technical issues independently
• This position may require some travel to our clients’ sites (Middle East region).
• Basic understanding of credit analytics, finance institutions and instruments – banking or insurance (e.g. loan, letter of credit, FX); exposure to credit decisioning process also beneficial
• Basic understanding of accounting concepts and the use of balance sheets, income statements, financial ratio, etc.
• Fluency in English. Fluency in Arabic is a plus.

Banking OU / Lending

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.

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