Goldman Sachs Compliance Legal & Conflicts Resolutions Group Associate London 

United Kingdom, England, London 

744917726

Compliance, Legal and the Conflicts Resolution Group (CLC) work at the intersection of finance and control functions, enabling the firm to conduct business with the highest level of integrity. The expertise and experience of the three divisions address the legal, compliance and reputational risks facing Goldman Sachs. 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.

• Global Compliance prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risks 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 a part of the firm’s second line of defense.
• The Legal Division’s advice and counsel provided to all areas of the firm are critical for maintaining our commitments to our clients, regulators and shareholders and to promote our culture of excellence and integrity. Our goal is to provide legal advice that protects the firm’s financial well-being and reputation and assists our various businesses in evaluating the risks associated with completing transactions and other activities.
• The Conflicts Resolution Group (CRG) is a control function whose mission is to evaluate advisory, financing, principal investing, lending and certain other activities to identify actual or perceived conflicts of interest and assess the potential reputational risks resulting from the potential intersection among new and existing roles, positions and responsibilities that the firm may have.

YOUR IMPACT

We are looking for someone who is equal parts visionary and executor. At times, the role will require you to navigate and problem solve with multiple teams and interested parties, bearing in mind timelines and a senior audience. Examples of duties include:

• Become a Subject Matter Expert in the area of Interaffiliate Services, including process governance and controls
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders on actioning Service Level Agreements to ensure compliance with the Interaffiliate Services Program
• Act as a key advisor to internal stakeholders and help address queries related to Policy and Standard requirements
• Build strong business relationships with divisional and firmwide stakeholders to understand impact of the Program requirements
• Contribute into firmwide transformation initiatives impacting TPRM Programs
• Develop and provide periodic global and regional reporting on the Interaffiliate landscape, risks, controls, and overall status of divisional execution against the program requirements
• Manage internal and external examinations and engagements (regulatory, audit, compliance)
• Identifying business needs for new or changed Interaffiliate relationships
• Contribute to the production, review and analysis of TPRM presentations for senior leadership
  • Incumbent must be comfortable navigating large data sets and distilling information into an executive level presentation

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree with 3 + years of Financial Services industry orThird Party Risk Management experience
• Highly customer service oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills with an ability to learn new reporting tools quickly
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and project management skills with a proven track record of execution against deadlines
• Demonstrate resiliency and creativity when under pressure and when managing time-sensitive demands from competing stakeholders
• Experience in delivering high quality work products, reflecting attention to detail and analytical prowess
• Work independently and exercise strong judgment when executing an assigned task
• Multi-task and have the ability to manage and advance multiple projects simultaneously
• Identify and effectively escalate potential issues to appropriate person(s)