Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, DS&I, Vice President, New York

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
Supports financial crime compliance through KYC surveillance model implementation, tuning, analytics, data sourcing, validation, control testing, investigations, and regulatory documentation. The role analyzes data, maps requirements across platforms, manages project workflows, prepares testing reports, and collaborates with technology, operations, and business teams to strengthen AML and KYC controls.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 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.
 

Business Unit and Role Overview
Financial Crime Compliance (“FCC”) has primary responsibility for the execution of the firm’s enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”), 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.
Opportunity
FCC is seeking an individual to join its FCC Data, Systems and Innovation team to assist in implementing and operating Know Your Customer (“KYC”) surveillance models, model tuning and supporting KYC analytics across the firm’s businesses. S/he will be working with cross-divisional partners, including technology, operations and business personnel through all aspects of strategic and tactical builds of a critical KYC program, including but not limited to the following:

  • Capturing, analyzing and documenting business requirements and functional specifications
  • Data sourcing, data analysis and identifying data requirements
  • Assist in development and implementation of KYC analytics
  • Data and surveillance validation planning and execution
  • Project tracking and execution
  • Conduct investigative and testing reviews of FCC’s controls and related partnered controls
  • Draft detailed investigative and testing reports, including opinions, findings and corrective action plans
  • Documentation of project artifacts for Compliance testing, Model Validation, regulatory and audit purposes

 

The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills, the ability to collaborate with others, manage workflows and multi-task.  The team member is expected to quickly gain an understanding of the firm’s global businesses, and the rules and regulations under which the Bank operates.

The role is open to start immediately.

Basic Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 5 or more years of prior experience in an analytical role in Financial Crimes Compliance, with an emphasis on KYC is preferred.
  • Bachelor degree in Engineering/Technology with relevant work experience
  • Understanding of AML and terrorist financing trends and typologies
  • Experience with Data Lake, Tableau/Qliksense/Qlikview, Excel (pivots, VLookups) and/or other data analytics/visualization tools
  • Ability to deal with data models and work on mapping data across platforms
  • Excellent organization and project management skills – ability to execute and manage a project independently
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to adapt to new changes and new challenges
  • Ability to prioritize work flows and ensure deadlines are met
  • Ability to work independently and manage a team
  • String knowledge of databases, SQL scripts and querying large data sets
     
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. Learn more 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. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
 
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved.
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.

 

Skills Required

  • At least 5 years of analytical experience in Financial Crimes Compliance, preferably focused on KYC
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Technology with relevant work experience
  • Understanding of AML and terrorist financing trends and typologies
  • Experience with Data Lake, Tableau, QlikSense, QlikView, Excel, or other data analytics and visualization tools
  • Ability to work with data models and map data across platforms
  • Strong organization and project management skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to adapt to changes and new challenges
  • Ability to prioritize workflows and meet deadlines
  • Ability to work independently and manage a team
  • Strong knowledge of databases, SQL scripts, and querying large datasets

Goldman Sachs Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Goldman Sachs and has not been reviewed or approved by Goldman Sachs.

  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as offering multiple plan options with subsidized premiums and prescription coverage. Materials indicate there are no pre-existing condition limitations in the U.S. summary.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are considered competitive, including employer 401(k) matching and access to financial education and planning resources. These features position long-term savings as a core component of the package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Family-support programs include paid parenting leave, family-care leave, and resources such as childcare support and lactation rooms in some offices. These offerings signal emphasis on supporting caregivers alongside work.

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