Compliance, FCC - Digital Assets, Vice President Vice President

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.

Financial Crime Compliance ("FCC") coordinates Goldman Sachs' enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (AML), economic sanctions and anti-bribery compliance efforts. The combined FCC team 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.

We seek professionals who demonstrate sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, strong risk management capabilities and the ability to operate effectively in a rapidly evolving regulatory and technology environment.

The candidate will be an integral member of the Financial Crime Compliance Digital Assets team and will support FCC coverage for the firm’s digital assets activities. The role will focus on financial crime risks arising from blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT), cryptocurrencies, stable coins, tokenized assets, digital money and related products, services, clients and infrastructure.

The successful candidate will help define and execute the firm’s FCC strategy for digital assets in an emerging and regionally divergent regulatory environment. The role requires close collaboration with global and regional FCC colleagues, business teams and other control functions, including Legal, Compliance, Internal Audit, Operations, Technology, and Risk.

The role will support a cross-divisional approach to financial crime risk management across commercial use cases, which may include capital markets activity, crypto-linked trading products, collateral mobility, tokenized deposits and other digital money solutions, blockchain infrastructure, and strategic investments. The scope may evolve based on business activity, regulatory developments and the candidate’s experience.

Serve as a senior FCC point of contact for digital assets matters and contribute to the global FCC Digital Assets framework.

Identify and assess money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions, fraud, and other illicit finance risks associated with digital asset products, services, clients, counter parties, technologies and transaction flows.

Provide risk-based advice and effective challenge throughout the product and client lifecycle, including new business initiatives, product approvals, client onboarding, and material changes to existing activities.

Lead or support the onboarding and integration of digital asset related vendors to provide blockchain analytics, and digital assets intelligence services

Partner with relevant teams to design, enhance and oversee controls relating to customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, sanctions screening, blockchain…