KYC & AML Solutions Executive

Moody's Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 119,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock purchase plan

Tuition assistance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

Moody’s Corporation is seeking a seasoned KYC/AML expert to modernize compliance workflows for financial institutions, supporting complex sales cycles and cross-functional engagement.

The role emphasizes executive communication, data-driven problem-solving, and collaboration across sales, product, and strategy teams, with travel expectations and a strong focus on responsible AI-enabled processes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Know Your Customer, anti-money laundering, financial crime, compliance technology, data, software as a service, enterprise software, or related roles.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with demonstrated success engaging senior decision-makers and navigating large, complex financial institutions
• Consultative problem-solving across people, processes, data, and technology and translate complex requirements into clear solution narratives
• Collaborative and self-directed approach, able to work across sales, product, strategy, and client-facing teams to support complex sales cycles
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and ability to work both independently and as part of a broader team
• Familiarity with automation, analytics, and data-driven workflow transformation is preferred
• Basic understanding of artificial intelligence concepts, with curiosity and enthusiasm for learning how AI tools can be used to improve processes and drive efficiency

Responsibilities

• Serve as a domain expert who helps financial institutions modernize compliance workflows while supporting complex sales cycles.
• Partner with internal sales teams, relationship managers, and external partners while independently prospecting, qualifying, and advancing Know Your Customer and anti-money laundering opportunities across banks and financial institutions
• Lead discovery to understand client workflows, pain points, business drivers, and technology environments, then translate findings into solution positioning, value drivers, use cases, and next steps
• Support complex sales cycles by delivering tailored demonstrations, presentations, proposals, business cases, and account strategies that connect Moody’s capabilities to client needs
• Build trusted client relationships as a Know Your Customer and anti-money laundering subject matter expert, providing practical insight on compliance trends, workflow modernization, data, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence
• Share client, market, product, and competitive insights with internal teams to inform roadmap priorities, go-to-market strategy, enablement, and sales execution
• Represent Moody’s in client meetings, industry events, conferences, and partner forums, with travel of approximately 30-50% based on business needs

Skills

KYC compliance

Anti-money laundering

Financial crime

Compliance tech

Data analysis

SaaS/enterprise software

Executive presence

Communication

Automation & analytics

AI awareness

Education

Undergraduate degree

Job description

Moody’s Corporation is seeking a seasoned KYC/AML expert to modernize compliance workflows for financial institutions, supporting complex sales cycles and cross-functional engagement.

The role emphasizes executive communication, data-driven problem-solving, and collaboration across sales, product, and strategy teams, with travel expectations and a strong focus on responsible AI-enabled processes.