Enterprise Account Executive (Banking, Financial Services, & Insurance)
Accounting & Finance, Sales & Business Development
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter.
Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems. We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business.
At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.
As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in enterprise software sales, with a dedicated focus on the Australian and New Zealand BFSI vertical.
- Proven track record of selling complex technical solutions, data platforms, or enterprise infrastructure into the major banks.
- Experience executing structured enterprise sales methodologies (e.g., MEDDPICC, consultative selling, value-based selling) across multi-stakeholder business and technical business units.
- Experience navigating both "hunting" (new business/new logo acquisition) and "farming" (expanding existing footprints and major account management) cycles.
Preferred qualifications:
- Deep domain expertise within the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) vertical, including strong existing relationships with C-level executives, line-of-business owners, and data architects.
- Experience selling cloud-native data architectures, relational/NoSQL databases, analytics platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of the specific compliance, regulatory (e.g., APRA), and data sovereignty frameworks governing the ANZ financial sector.
- Proven success co-selling and aligning with the local public cloud provider ecosystems (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) and global systems integrators (GSIs).
- Strategic acumen to balance high-velocity territory hunting with deep-dive, long-term strategic account planning within institutional banking accounts.
About the job
As an Enterprise Account Executive for the BFSI vertical, you will be responsible for driving the adoption and expansion of Neo4j’s graph database technology within the most critical financial institutions. Based in Sydney, you will manage a highly strategic portfolio consisting of premium tier-1 accounts—including several major banks—alongside a rich territory of greenfield financial services and insurance prospects.
In this role, you will balance hunting for new logos with a "land and expand" approach to deepen our footprint within existing accounts. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, showing how graph databases solve complex, multi-billion-dollar challenges like real-time fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), regulatory compliance, and generative AI enablement. You will blend financial sector acumen, enterprise sales prowess, and cloud ecosystem partnership to secure the market-leading position for Neo4j in financial services.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a comprehensive vertical account plan for the ANZ BFSI market, consistently meeting or exceeding quarterly and annual sales metrics across both net-new and expansion targets.
- Drive end-to-end, value-driven enterprise sales cycles within major banks and other financial institutions, engaging both technical stakeholders and business executives.
- Spearhead account expansion ("farming") strategies within established accounts by identifying new high-value workloads, use cases, and departments to scale Neo4j adoption.
- Systematically hunt for and capture new logos within the broader mid-tier banking, wealth management, fintech, and insurance sectors.
- Orchestrate internal cross-functional squads—including Pre-Sales Engineering, Field Marketing, Customer Success, and Channel Partners—to scope, deliver, and qualify impactful Proofs of Value (POVs).
- Maintain exceptional CRM hygiene in Salesforce.com, ensuring rigorous deal tracking, account profiling, and accurate forecasting in line with corporate guidelines.
Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph intelligence platform in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.
- Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
- Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
- 84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
- Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
- Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
- A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.
One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.
Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:
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