Asset & Wealth Management – Control Office – Monitoring & Testing – Analyst – Birmingham
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
* Risk & Control
o Develop an in-depth knowledge of the risk and control profile across Asset & Wealth Management.
o Advise, challenge and inform the businesses on recommended ways to mitigate risk; review action items to ensure that risk is being sufficiently addressed.
o Leading by example: Act as a culture carrier by embedding & propagating a risk mind-set and awareness within the team, region & globally.
o Identify ways to share risk best practice across teams and functions, and with other business lines where processes exist or there is exposure to similar risk.
o Partner with the business lines to assess residual risks that exist after issues are resolved and apply lessons learned to improve our risk and control framework.
o Risk analysis: Collaborate with stakeholders to develop KRIs / KPIs for monitoring operational framework health, driving the risk agenda, highlighting areas of concern, and partnering with line managers to develop, execute and monitor remediation plans.
* QA & Technical Hat
o Create a Control QA & Monitoring framework and implement continuous improvement processes to ensure its adaptability to changes in process, regulations and platforms.
o Develop data quality, lineage, and control test plans with QA, covering a wide range of products, business lines, and processes, including both manual and systematic data origins.
o Design testing methodologies that define test scripts, execution protocols (including frequency, sampling and evidencing), and follow-up actions, ensuring integration with the Divisional risk management framework and datasets.
o Partner with developers and low-code specialists to develop tooling to support test execution, recordkeeping, and reporting.
o Work with our Business Intelligence team in building data models / data visualization for generating multi-dimensional reporting.
o Maintain strong relationships and connectivity with the broader control and data organizations to enable maintenance of the test suites as the operating and control environment changes.
o Execute test suites using manual and automated techniques, and integrate results into the broader risk management framework, including control enhancements and risk assessments.
o Coordinate end-to-end risk management delivery with other Divisions, such as Compliance, Legal, Risk, Internal Audit and support regulatory interactions.
Skills & Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree and 1-3 years of experience within a risk management context and a solid understanding of the Asset & Wealth Management franchise.
* Exposure to qualitative and quantitative controls and data testing across financial products.
* Working knowledge of programming fundamentals including software development life cycle concepts.
* Ability to navigate large data sets, develop metrics and synthesize a variety of information to summarize a profile.
* An energetic self-starter with strong control mindset with a passion for risk management.
* Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with different levels across Asset & Wealth Management stakeholders.
* Proactive and detail-oriented, with strong analytical, lateral thinking and organizational skills.
* Innovative mindset with a sharp focus on identifying and implementing practical control enhancements and automation possibilities.
* Effective influencing skills to challenging the status quo and continuously enhance the control environment.
* Ability to perform data analytics using metrics to identify trends and themes.
* Sound time management skills to effectively prioritize, multi-task and meet time-sensitive deadlines.
* A mentor / coach to the juniors in the team.
* Highly driven and motivated to improve personal performance, broaden knowledge, strong work ethic, and persist in the face of obstacles or setbacks.
* Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills to collaborate as a global team and build strong relationships with key stakeholders across divisions.
* Keeps current with emerging business, economic and market trends.
* Proven track record to deliver and enhance measurable business outcomes and products, resulting in significant impact.
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. We are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. 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. We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.
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