Assistant Director, Sales Representative - AML/KYC Data Apps

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Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrated success as a hunter / new business sales professional, consistently originating pipeline, running discovery, and closing new logos and net-new expansion within existing accounts
• Strong working knowledge of Anti Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), sanctions, screening, onboarding, and ongoing monitoring workflows and how buyers operationalize them
• Experience selling workflow + data solutions such as Moody’s Maxsight™ and related screening capabilities
• Ability to sell unique, high‑value datasets to quantitative and data‑driven stakeholders (e.g., quant research, risk analytics, data science, model development teams), including explaining differentiation and proving value
• Strong consultative selling skills: ability to map client objectives to outcomes, build business cases, handle objections, and negotiate complex commercial terms (required)
• Executive presence and stakeholder management skills across asset managers, including compliance, operations, risk, procurement, and investment data teams

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience required

Responsibilities

Drive new business and expansion for Moody’s AML/KYC data applications in Asset Management by selling workflow and screening solutions that improve onboarding, monitoring, and compliance outcomes.

• Own the full new business (hunter) sales motion for AML/KYC data applications within the Asset Management segment: prospecting, discovery, solution positioning, pricing, negotiation, and close
• Drive net‑new expansion within existing accounts by uncovering additional use cases (e.g., onboarding, vendor screening, monitoring, investigations, reporting) and expanding adoption across teams and regions
• Position and sell integrated solutions including Moody’s Maxsight™ and screening capabilities such as Grid, aligning solution value to client pain points like false positives, inefficient onboarding, and fragmented risk intelligence
• Sell unique datasets and data applications to quantitative and analytics‑oriented stakeholders, articulating differentiation, data quality, coverage, and how datasets can be leveraged in models and investment/compliance workflows
• Build and maintain multi‑threaded relationships across compliance, operations, risk, data, and procurement stakeholders; develop account strategies and mutual success plans to support growth
• Partner with Solutions, Product, and Customer Success teams to support demos, pilots, implementation readiness, and post‑sale adoption—ensuring a strong handoff and accelerating time to value

About the Team

Our AML/KYC Data Apps Workflow Specialist team helps Asset Management clients manage financial crime and third‑party risk by combining workflow technology with high‑value data and screening capabilities. By joining the team, you will sell Moody’s workflow and screening solutions that enhance onboarding and monitoring—including capabilities associated with Moody’s Maxsight™—help clients reduce friction in compliance processes by connecting risk intelligence across teams using unified risk platform capabilities, and contribute to a growth‑focused sales organization expanding adoption of Moody’s screening and KYC capabilities, including Grid‑related workflows.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $82,400.00 - $119,450.00, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

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