Our division prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm's culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these through the firm's enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firm's second line of defence, Compliance assesses the firm's compliance, regulatory and reputational risk; monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and leads the firm's responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries. You'll be part of a team with members from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, such as law, accounting, sales, and trading. We look for those who possess sound judgment, curiosity, and are able to adapt to a changing regulatory landscape.
OVERVIEW
Goldman Sachs is seeking an Analyst in the firm's Government Sanctions Group. As part of the firm's Global Compliance Division, the Government Sanctions Group ensures the firm's compliance with sanctions programs administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OSFI) at the UK's His Majesty's Treasury, the European Union, and other relevant sanctions authorities globally.
The ideal candidate would have proven time management skills, a strong attention to detail, written and oral communication skills, investigative skills, and the ability to collaborate within a team. The employee will assist in the identification of sanctions risk across the firm's lines of business and work with regional Compliance, Operations, and Technology teams to administer and provide oversight of risk mitigation processes.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Investigation of alerts from the team's day-to-day reference data and payment screening process, ensuring smooth, prompt, and accurate execution
Providing advice on investigations on sanctions alerts that result from the firm's transaction and reference data sanctions screening processes
Working with business, operations, and technology divisions to collect information relevant to potential sanctions concerns and provide sanctions-related advice to internal constituencies
Conducting enhanced due diligence and related activities to mitigate sanctions risk
Ensure metrics, deadlines, and record-keeping obligations established by management are met
Assist in the development and enhancement of sanctions-related policies and procedures documents across the firm's lines of business
Assist in collation of deliverables for internal/external audit
Drafting regulatory reports in relation to sanctioned assets
Enhance and deliver sanctions training to Goldman Sachs employees
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree
Strong written and oral communication skills
Ability to handle multiple priority projects at once and deliver consistently high quality results
Ability to be a self-starter and to ensure projects are followed through to completion
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, and an aptitude for learning new systems and applications
Team oriented
Sanctions-related experience in the financial services industry or relevant government agency/regulator
Sanctions related qualification is desirable
Prior experience managing sanctions teams and workflows
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
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We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Birmingham
JOB FUNCTION
Financial Crime Controls
DIVISION
Compliance Division
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