Asst DirEconomist 2

14226 At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today's risks into tomorrow's opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are-with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody's is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we're advancing AI to move from insight to action-enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity. Skills and Competencies * Strong foundation in international regional economics, including analysis of subnational and cross-country economic, demographic, and financial conditions, with emphasis on producing consistent regional datasets for modelling, forecasting, and applied research * Baseline knowledge of economic, demographic, and financial time series data, including concepts such as frequency, seasonality, revisions, breaks in series, geographic comparability, and harmonization across definitions and vintages * Experience using international data sources, including national statistical offices, central banks, multilateral institutions, administrative sources, and commercial datasets to acquire, evaluate, clean, and integrate regional and macroeconomic indicators * Advanced quantitative economics skills, including time series analysis, econometrics, statistical techniques, data cleaning, estimation, and validation methods used to develop reliable regional economic and demographic datasets * Working familiarity with geospatial concepts and geographic data structures sufficient to support regional data production, including geographic crosswalks, boundary changes, and spatial consistency checks * Programming skills to build analytical pipelines and infrastructure, reproducible workflows, and data validation * Working knowledge of AI-assisted development tools and workflows, including LLM coding assistants, agentic systems, MCP integrations, and related frameworks, to accelerate productivity and improve data usability * Demonstrated proficiency in artificial intelligence concepts, with hands-on experience using AI tools to streamline workflows and enhance operational efficiency. Proven ability to implement AI-powered solutions to solve business challenges. Demonstrates a growing awareness of AI risk management and a commitment to responsible and ethical AI use.Education * B.S. in a relevant field aligned with the required skills is required, with 5+ years of relevant experience in economic, demographic, financial, data science, statistics, or related quantitative work * Relevant fields may include Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Finance, Applied Mathematics, or another related disciplineResponsibilitiesDevelop and maintain advanced regional economic and demographic datasets that support research, forecasting, analytics, and decision-making across the organization * Develop and operationalize proprietary regional demographic and economic databases, including data cleaning, harmonization, estimation, and ongoing maintenance * Ingest, clean, and standardize data from a variety of international sources and implement reproducible data quality checks and anomaly detection processes * Harmonize definitions, geographic crosswalks, and time series to ensure comparability across regions, industry classifications, geographic boundary changes, and temporal breaks * Cre