Rozália Miklós

“You have agency over your own career.”

In her 10 years with MSCI, Rozália has been promoted from Analytical Quality Assurance Associate to Global Head of Financial Engineering for the entire Analytics Research organization. Now leading teams across China, India, Budapest, the United States and Mexico, her remit has recently expanded to include our Climate Analytics Research team. She is also the Office Head for over 500 people at our Budapest Office.

“At each stage of your career, you need to demonstrate new sets of skills, knowledge, and behaviors. As an Associate, you need the strong technical skills to execute and deliver in an efficient way. Then, when moving up to Vice President level, you need to be able to proactively own, drive and coordinate projects, demonstrating leadership in your area of expertise. And to reach Executive Director level, you must be able to generate innovative project ideas and effectively secure stakeholder buy-in. This demonstrates strategic thinking and an understanding of the broader business context.

As a Managing Director, which is the level I’m at now, you need to be a strategist and leader for the firm. Instead of just focusing on your own function area, you need to set the firm’s strategy and vision, so you can come up with the Next Big Thing for MSCI.”

Throughout her time with us, Rozália has consistently developed her understanding of the business and grown her network through internal transfers and mentoring opportunities.

“In my junior years, I was more focused on my technical skills, and it wasn’t until the people around me helped me realise I had leadership potential that I began to work on those skills and behaviors too.”

And when she wanted to grow her career and grow her family, MSCI supported and empowered her to do both.

“I have been promoted twice here while on maternity leave – once in 2021, and again in 2024. Often, people assume that if you’re pregnant, you won’t want to take on more responsibility, usually out of goodwill. But at MSCI, I have had supportive managers and mentors who have checked in with me on what I want to do and how I want to progress, rather than assuming.”

Now Rozália wants to pass her knowledge on to the next generation of MSCI talent, and make sure that they get the same opportunities that she had.

“Three years ago, I started a mentoring program to help women grow their careers in Research. As mentors get to know their mentees, it makes it easier for us to be more proactive in putting junior women researchers forward for opportunities that they might not otherwise have considered.

And when an Executive Committee member or senior leader comes to the Budapest office, I make it a priority to organise smaller group discussions that give our top talent – even at a junior associate level – the opportunity to get noticed.”