Developing Your Career: Real Life Stories from Women Leaders

Sofia is an Associate Vice President in the Finance Business Intelligence and Analytics team. She manages a team of 6 analysts in Costa Rica, providing guidance on the execution of business intelligence projects. Also, Sofia leads the Finance Workforce Development initiative, which aims to upskill the Finance organization employees to achieve maximum impact in their role and stimulate their career development. Sofia joined Moody’s in 2016 and served various roles in the Financial Planning and Analysis team, before joining the Business Intelligence team in 2019. Prior to Moody’s, she worked for Hewlett Packard. Sofia is an Industrial Engineer with an MBA with emphasis in Finance and Economics from INCAE Business School.

Brenda Rojas is an AVP manager for the Data & Analytics – Ratings, Operations & Controls team for Moody’s Investors Service (MIS). In this role, Brenda leads teams of Associates and Financial Data Analysts for the Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance and Project Infrastructure Finance Groups that provide end-to-end operational support to ratings-related activities to Ratings and Research Support and Rating and Research in MIS. From 2016 to mid-2019, Brenda led a team of equity research analysts as Delivery Manager for Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services in developing thematic and investment reports, creating financial models and maintaining data products for the Latin American market. Prior to that, Brenda held the roles of Financial Analyst / Associate from 2011 to 2016 for Amba Research and Copal Amba (a Moody’s subsidiary) serving as an equity research analyst covering various sectors and industries in the U.S. and Latin American markets contributing to various responsibilities including: monitoring data compilation, construction of financial models, thematic reports and product idea generation which drove her to fine tune attention to detail, analytical and process enhancement skills. Brenda holds a Licentiate degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Costa Rica UCR.

Claudia Sequeira is a Senior Manager – in her role as Engagement Manager for the Costa Rica Finance organization in Moody’s she is responsible for reviewing activities and operating models across the functional teams to ensure greater consistency across the team and surface local issues to local management and to the Finance Senior Leadership Team.