Compliance, Financial Crime Controls

Job Description

Our division prevents, detects, and mitigates compliance, regulatory, and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firms culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these through the firms enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firms second line of defense, Compliance assesses the firms 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 firms 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.

OUR IMPACT

Financial Crime Compliance ("FCC") coordinates Goldman Sachs' enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (AML), economic sanctions, e-communications, and anti-bribery compliance efforts. The combined FCC team, which is composed of professionals with extensive law enforcement, regulatory, legal, compliance, forensic consulting, operations, and business experience, administers an array of surveillances, due diligence, investigative expertise, and other control processes designed to identify potential money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, securities fraud, and other violations of law.

The Financial Crime Compliance team is seeking an Associate for a compliance role with experience in product management, product design, and Know Your Customer rules and regulations. The Associate will work closely with cross-functional teams and engineering stakeholders to ensure our KYC products meet regulatory requirements and exceed customer expectations. This role requires an understanding of regulatory frameworks and the ability to drive product innovation in a highly regulated environment. The Associate will work within the KYC Product Management team to execute upon the product strategy for KYC compliance solutions, ensuring alignment with company goals and regulatory requirements; coordinate drafting requirements, testing functionality; and work with change management teams to implement new system features.

The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience as a business analyst/product manager in a KYC/AML compliance, financial services, or highly regulated industry.

YOUR IMPACT

• Collaborate with senior leadership across Compliance, Operations, Engineering, and the Business to execute on the strategic vision for KYC systems.
• Know regulatory and firm KYC requirements to ensure products are fully compliant with global regulatory standards.
• Understand firm products and services, and divisional systems, to ensure define and deliver system functionality.
• Write, refine, and test product requirements.
• Work with Change Management teams to appropriately plan and release new functionality.
• Ensure stakeholder awareness of new and existing KYC system functionality.

Basic Qualifications:

• The role requires a degree (Bachelors/Masters) in a related field (Legal, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Product Management, Engineering, or related quantitative disciplines).
• Experience at a global, highly regulated financial institution.
• Firm understanding of Know Your Customer regulations and/or experience working in a Know Your Customer role (Operations, Execution, Compliance, Legal).
• Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLookups) and PowerPoint.
• Understanding of data structures and query languages such as SQL.
• Knowledge of Data Quality and Data Analysis methodologies.
• Ability to communicate Compliance requirements for consumption by Engineering and other cross-functional partners.
• Experience using JIRA and writing business requirements.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to adapt in a fast-paced work environment; strong sense of urgency.
• Strong work ethic.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical skills (Alteryx, SQL, R, Python, Tableau).
• Awareness and experience working with AML trends and typologies.
• Experience building and enhancing existing processes.
• Experience in large scale system development.

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

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Locations - Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLE: Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S): Warsaw
JOB FUNCTION: Financial Crime Controls
DIVISION: Compliance Division

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