Global Banking & Markets; Op Risk & Resilience Associate, Risk Governance

Job Description

Job Duties:

Associate, Risk Governance with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in New York, New York. Responsible for identifying, analyzing, and monitoring areas of risk as it pertains to business processes and controls. Ensure appropriate oversight for the risk profile of the aligned segment. Attend regular risk meetings to review exceptions across business units, ask probing questions to establish potential market, client, and other risks that may be contained within aligned workflows.

Identify risks within the operational risk profile of the segment, including emerging risks. Share risk best practice across teams and functions, as well as with other business lines where processes exist or there is exposure to similar risks, thereby ensuring effective controls are in place to mitigate those risks.

• Identify, analyze, and monitor areas of risk related to business processes and controls; ensure oversight for the risk profile of the aligned segment; participate in risk meetings to review exceptions across units; ask probing questions to identify market, client, and other risks within aligned workflows; identify emerging risks in the operational risk profile; share risk best practices across teams and functions to ensure effective controls are in place to mitigate risks.

• Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Accounting, or related field and one year of experience in the job offered or in a related role OR Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Accounting, or related field and three years of experience in the job offered or in a related role. Prior experience must include one year (with a Master’s degree) or three years (with a Bachelor’s degree) with: visualizing complex data analyses from raw data in risk management reports, using visualization tools such as Tableau, and communicating results to a wide variety of audiences;
  
  leveraging analytics and automation experience to propose effective methods to develop risk detection and analyses; using multi-dimensional data modeling/data warehousing for data analytics and reporting; developing processes and tools to identify and monitor data accuracy; and driving projects improving and maintaining tools supporting the operational risk framework.

Salary Range:
Annual base salary for this New York, New York-based position is $126,963.

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