Job Description
GLOBAL COMPLIANCE
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
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