Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Analyst/Associate – Birmingham
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Job Description
OUR IMPACT
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 defense, 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.
Financial Crime Compliance team ("FCC") has primary responsibility for the execution of the firm’s enterprise-wide Anti‑Money Laundering, anti‑bribery, and government sanctions compliance programs and, among other things, performs enhanced due diligence and government sanctions screening, as well as surveillance and investigations designed to identify potential terrorist financing, money laundering, bribery, market abuse, or other suspicious activity. Within FCC, the Anti‑Bribery & Corruption Group is responsible for implementing the firm‑wide anti‑bribery and anti‑corruption program, including assessment of the firm’s bribery/corruption risk, development and implementation of policies and procedures to prevent, detect and report bribery and corrupt payments; due diligence with respect to proposed intermediaries, and certain other business counterparties; training of relevant personnel; monitoring and surveillance of gifts and entertainment; investigations of "red flags" and internal escalations; and bringing significant issues to the attention of senior management.
YOUR IMPACT
The Anti‑Bribery & Corruption Compliance Officer would assist in all aspects of the anti‑bribery program, including but not limited to:
* Supporting the implementation of anti‑bribery policies, procedures and projects
* Conducting intermediary/finder and vendor due diligence reviews, analysis and writing‑up reports
* Reviewing gifts, travel, and entertainment, relationship candidate and charitable contribution requests
* Investigating escalations and conducting forensic reviews
* Collaborating with risk partners on anti‑bribery matters
* Collaborating with other control functions
Basic Qualifications
* Prior experience in anti‑bribery/anti‑corruption compliance, legal, consulting, law enforcement investigations or audit preferred
* Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills (fluency in English required)
* Strong analytical, investigative and risk assessment skills
* Ability to prioritize demanding workflows, be detailed‑oriented and well‑organized
* Ability to adapt to new changes and new challenges
* Effective interpersonal skills and ability to forge strong relationships with colleagues and clients
* Self‑starter, pro‑active and able to work independently and yet still be team‑oriented
* Experience with Microsoft Office and databases such as World‑Check, Factiva, and Lexis/Nexis
Job Info
* Job Identification 171401
* Job Category Associate
* Posting Date 05/27/2026, 02:58 PM
* Locations Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Benefits
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.
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.
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.
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).
We offer open‑access 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.
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