Assc Dir-Sr Strategist

Moody's Investors Service; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's Investors Service in Bengaluru seeks a senior strategy professional to drive horizon-3 initiatives and investment cases across Banking. You will collaborate with SLT and cross-functional teams to shape strategic choices and market-informed recommendations.

The role requires strong executive presence, ability to work with ambiguous data, and mentorship to team members while ensuring governance and timely execution.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in strategy, consulting, or analytics.
• MBA or postgraduate degree strongly preferred.
• Strong external orientation and executive presence.
• Experience influencing senior leadership with investment cases.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategy formulation and Horizon-3 initiatives for Banking.
• Own portfolio reviews and investment cases for SLT decisions.
• Own execution monitoring, governance, and program management for strategic initiatives.
• Mentor team members and represent the Commercial Strategy function in cross-functional forums.
• Engage directly with SLT and senior stakeholders, handling confidential information with discretion.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Executive presence

Data-driven decisions

Excel/PowerPoint

Education

MBA or postgraduate degree

Bachelor's in Finance/Economics/Engineering

Tools

BI tools

AI for automation

Job description

Skills and Competencies

• 8–12 years of experience in strategy, consulting, or commercial/customer analytics, with demonstrated experience presenting to and influencing senior leadership
• Deep understanding of the global commercial banking industry — including Commercial Lending, Anti-Financial Crime, Capital Markets and Enterprise Risk — with working knowledge of customer personas and journeys across these areas
• Strong external orientation — able to bring market trends, competitive intelligence, and forward-looking (Horizon-3) thinking into the team's strategic agenda
• High degree of judgment, maturity, and executive presence; acts as a trusted strategic thought partner to senior leaders on high-impact, ambiguous questions — framing choices, trade-offs, and implications rather than simply presenting analysis; this role engages regularly with Senior Stakeholders and handles confidential strategic and business information
• Proven ability to build investment cases and portfolio reviews that hold up under senior leadership scrutiny — this is a decision-support role, not a reporting role
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and providing senior back-up/ coverage across the Commercial Strategy agenda as priorities shift
• Strong independent research capability — market spotlights, news and trend analysis, competitor benchmarking, and case studies — to inform strategic recommendations. Quick learner across new domains and data sources
• Technical proficiencies: MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, BI tools, and use of AI for automation are a minimum expectation; proven ability to work with sparse and multi-source data (quantitative and qualitative) to build data-based decision frameworks and connect disparate insights into a coherent recommendation
  

Education

• MBA or postgraduate degree from a well-regarded institution(Tier 1/Tier 2) institution strongly preferred; Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field required

Responsibilities

• Drive strategy formulation, execution monitoring and Horizon-3 initiatives for Banking, providing SLT decision support across portfolio reviews and investment cases
• Drive strategy formulation for Horizon-3 initiatives, bringing external market perspective and emerging trends into the team's forward-looking agenda
• Own portfolio reviews and investment cases that directly support Senior Leadership Team decision-making
• Own execution monitoring, process governance, and program management for specific strategic initiatives — including product mapping/taxonomy and pricing and packaging discipline — partnering with central strategy and product/domain strategy teams where required, and driving regular review cadences
• Incorporate regional perspectives into strategic recommendations and Horizon-3 thinking, closing the loop between execution learnings and strategy formulation
• Provide senior back-up and coverage across the Commercial Strategy agenda, scaling the team's insight capacity
• Engage directly with SLT and cross-functional senior stakeholders, handling confidential strategic and business information with judgment and discretion
• Mentor and provide strategic direction to team members.
• Represent the Commercial Strategy function in cross-functional forums, bringing a customer- and market-informed point of view to broader business decisions

About the team

The Banking Commercial Strategy team drives strategic growth across Moody's Banking solutions through deep customer and market analytics. We deliver data-driven insights that inform market led strategy — helping shape Moody's long-term vision for the Banking business.
Our work sits at the center of Moody's efforts to deliver differentiated value to commercial banking clients. By joining us, you will contribute to impactful initiatives spanning strategy formulation, market intelligence, pricing, and customer analytics — while collaborating closely with product, sales, finance, senior leadership, and product/domain and central strategy teams.

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.