Job Description
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, Global Markets and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Bangalore, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.
Asset & Wealth Management
Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, we provide clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the firm’s primary investment area, we provide investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals, for which we oversee more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. We are:
Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services
Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios
Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions
Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goals
YOUR IMPACT
The Asset & Wealth Management Control Office is a recently established group in the Risk organization overseeing the division’s key control design standards. The Risk division is responsible for credit, market and operational risk, model risk, independent liquidity risk, and insurance throughout the firm. Our primary objectives are to create the key control inventory and process-risk-control artefacts across the division, report on the health of the division’s control landscape, and elevate controls to optimize our operating platform. This role ensures the effectiveness of controls supporting AWM’s business activities and ensuring a robust control framework is in place to evidence compliance across the division. This group comprises of six critical functions, including (1) Control Office Management, (2) Control Strategy, (3) Monitoring & Testing, (4) Firmwide Policy Oversight Group, (5) Regulatory Inventory Traceability, and (6) Issue Management.
We are looking for a highly motivated Associate to join the Regulatory Inventory Traceability team with a focus on Non-Financial Risk (NFR). NFR refers to risks that do not stem from financial market movements but can impact an organization’s operations, reputation or regulatory standing. These risks include – operational risk, conduct risk, regulatory risk, reputational risk, technology and cyber risk, third-party risk and environmental risk. The candidate will be responsible for evaluating regulatory requirements related to identifying and assessing potential consumer impact and supporting linkages between regulatory requirements to the firm’s risks and controls. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of risk management, governance frameworks, controls and regulatory requirements.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
Support the design and implementation of strategic and sustainable regulatory inventory and traceability process, with alignment to the Risk Management FrameworkManage regulatory mapping activities to assessment units, processes, risks, controls and policies and oversee consistency across pillars and divisionsDevelop comprehensive action plans to ensure control environment is fit for purpose, with consideration to regulatory obligationsEngage key stakeholders to make strategic decisions, prioritize implementation plans and manage volumesEstablish and maintain effective communication channels to support the dissemination of key information and insights
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience within a risk management context and a solid understanding of the Asset & Wealth Management franchise Experience supporting risk and control self-assessments or regulatory mapping exercises, including the design of key controlsExceptional analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and project management skills with a proven track record of execution against deadlinesExperience in delivering informative metrics and quantitative analysis to support management reportingInnovative mindset with a sharp focus on identifying and implementing practical control enhancements and automation possibilitiesEffective influencing skills to challenging the status quo and continuously enhance the control environmentExcellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with different levels across Asset & Wealth Management stakeholdersStrong time management skills to effectively prioritize, multi-task and meet time-sensitive deadlinesStrategic thinker who anticipates questions, analyzes complex issues, plans for contingencies and identifies alternative solutions and clear objectives