Job Description

TEAM OVERVIEW

Goldman Sachs Internal Auditors demonstrate strong risk and control mindsets, analytical, exercise professional scepticism, and are able to challenge and discuss effectively with management on risks and control measures. We look for individuals who enjoy learning about audit, businesses and functions, have innovative and creative mindsets to adopt analytical techniques to enhance audit techniques, building relationships and are able to evolve and thrive in teamwork and in a fast-paced global environment.



Goldman Sachs Internal Audit comprises individuals from diverse backgrounds including chartered accountants, developers, risk management professionals, cybersecurity professionals, and data scientists. We are organized into global teams comprising business and technology auditors to cover all the firm's businesses and functions, including securities, investment banking, consumer and investment management, risk management, finance, cyber-security and technology risk, and engineering.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As the third line of defence, Internal Audit's mission is to independently assess the firm's internal control structure, including the firm's governance processes and controls, and risk management and capital and anti-financial crime frameworks, raise awareness of control risk and monitor the implementation of management's control measures.



In doing so, Internal Audit perform the following duties:


Communicates and reports on the effectiveness of the firm's governance, risk management and controls that mitigate current and evolving risk Raise awareness of control risk Assesses the firm's control culture and conduct risks Monitors management's implementation of control measures

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Collaborate and work within the IA Asset Management team, the broader IA division and Goldman Sachs Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of business areas, its products, and supporting functions Plan and execute audit testing to ensure audit fieldwork is focused on the right areas and documentation meets high quality standards Identify risks, assess mitigating controls, and make recommendations on improving the control environment Prepare commercially effective audit conclusions and findings, and present to Internal Audit senior management and business stakeholders Follow-up on open audit issues and their resolution Participate in department-wide initiatives aimed at continually improving Internal Audit's processes and supporting infrastructure

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Bachelor degree holder with 1 - 5 years of experience in either internal audit, or an independent validation function within the financial services industry or Big 4 risk advisory Strong risk and control mindset Strong verbal and written communication skills Good communicator who can manage multiple stakeholders, keen to drive consensus and influence the outcomes Excellent team player who is enthusiastic, motivated to learn and detailed oriented Highly motivated with strong analytical skills, willing and able to learn new business and system processes quickly Awareness of relevant EMEA Asset Management Regulation, including sustainable finance

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.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

A The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2024. All rights reserved. Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

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
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.



Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Birmingham
JOB FUNCTION
Business Audit
DIVISION
Internal Audit