Internal Audit, Regulatory Relations Team, Vice President, New York

INTERNAL AUDIT

In Internal Audit, we ensure that Goldman Sachs maintains effective controls by assessing the reliability of financial reports, monitoring the firm’s compliance with laws and regulations, and advising management on developing smart control solutions. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry and its products and operations. We’re looking for detail-oriented team players who have an interest in financial markets and want to gain insight into the firm’s operations and control processes.

Internal Audit’s (IA) mission is to independently assess the firm’s overall control environment, including the firm’s governance processes and controls, and risk management and capital and anti-financial crime frameworks.

IA also supports the Board of Directors' Audit Committee by providing independent, objective and timely assurance and is a function designed to assist the Audit Committee, management and regulators by:

Communicating and reporting on the effectiveness of the firm’s governance, risk management and controls that mitigate current and evolving risks;

Raising awareness of control risk;

Assessing the firm’s control culture and conduct risks; and

Monitoring management’s implementation of control measures

IA is comprised of global functional audit teams covering the various business areas of the firm: Asset & Wealth Management, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Global Banking & Markets, and Engineering. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry and its products and operations.

Based on IA’s responsibilities, we have extensive interactions with the various regulators. We are looking for a detail-oriented individual who has an interest in financial markets and wants to gain insight into the firm’s operations and control processes.

Key Responsibilities

As the liaison between IA and the regulators on matters of regulatory compliance, the Regulatory Relations Team works closely with the various IA functional teams. The team is responsible for overseeing the examination process and coordinating regulatory interactions for IA. The primary responsibilities and expectations of the team members include:

• •Ensure that incoming regulatory matters that concern IA are appropriately tracked
• •Work with the IA functional teams regarding regulatory information requests and responses
• •Providing best practices for regulatory interactions, submissions and meeting management
• •Monitor teams progress in completing undertakings made to regulators during inquiries and exams, among other responsibilities
• •Take ownership of expanding processes and controls within the team to provide support to one of our European offices
• •Participation in corporate governance groups supporting regulatory matters including providing summaries and managing follow-ups
• •Senior management reporting
• •Escalate situations, as appropriate, to relevant to senior leadership
• •Take ownership of processes and controls within the team, drive the development of methods to improve processes and / or controls to ensure that these are efficient, effective and relevant
• •Execute and manage ad-hoc projects
• •Maintain a centralized warehouse for documents related to requests, responses and commitments

Business knowledge / Qualifications

Undergraduate degree in finance, accounting or other quantitative discipline

Minimum of 8 years of experience in regulatory relations, finance/accounting, operational management

Highly organized and detail-oriented with excellent multi-tasking and follow-through ability

Strong project and time management skills

Good communicator who can manage multiple stakeholders, keen to drive consensus and influence the outcomes

Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint or other Business Intelligence (BI) tools

Solutions and innovation minded with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including process re-engineering, the ability to organize and analyze and report results to various audiences

Energetic, self-directed and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships with teammates and colleagues

Excellent team player who is enthusiastic, motivated to learn and detailed oriented

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.

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Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $100000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

• Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available
• to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .