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

• Driven and motivated and eager to learn

• Communicates clearly in writing and speech; adapts style for clients and internal teams; confident on calls and in meetings

• Analyses and matches data with strong attention to detail using spreadsheets and basic formulas

• Plans and prioritizes tasks; meets deadlines across multiple projects; comfortable working to weekly goals and metrics

• Can undertake thorough research through use of different tools – including AI, to help research organizations and decision-makers; builds accurate prospect lists; experience with a customer relationship system preferred

Education

• Penultimate-year undergraduate in Business, Commerce, Data/Information Systems, Economics, Law, or related field

• Right to work in Australia and ability to be in the Sydney office (hybrid) during the internship period

• Availability ~3–4 days per week over the Australian summer break; exact schedule to be agreed

Responsibilities

Assist sales with research, outreach, and data matching while supporting pre-sales, post-sales and basic marketing/event tasks to drive lead generation.

• Function Focus

  • Drive top-of-funnel activity, data quality, and sales support to help win and retain customers for compliance data and workflow solutions

1. Research and prospect (30%) – Identify priority accounts and contacts; build prospect lists; qualify leads from campaigns and events
2. Campaign outreach (email/phone) (20%) – Personalise messages, book meetings, and log outcomes in the customer relationship system
3. Data matching and enrichment (25%) – Clean and reconcile datasets; map fields between customer files and internal databases; document assumptions
4. Pre-sales support (10%) – Prepare slides, product overviews, and simple demonstrations; capture requirements from discovery calls
5. Post-sales follow-ups (5%) – Track agreed actions, collect basic usage and satisfaction feedback, and update records
6. Marketing and events (8%) – Coordinate invites, manage attendee lists, support day-of logistics, and write follow-up notes
7. Reporting and admin (2%) – Maintain dashboards, update activity logs, and prepare weekly summaries

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.