Salt Lake – Analyst​/Associate -Compliance, Legal Conflicts Resolution Group; CLC

Job Description

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.

Compliance, Legal and the Conflicts Resolution Group (CLC) work at the intersection of finance and control functions, enabling the firm to conduct business with the highest level of integrity. The expertise and experience of the three divisions address the legal, compliance and reputational risks facing Goldman Sachs. 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.

• Global Compliance prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risks 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 a part of the firm’s second line of defense.
• The Legal Division’s advice and counsel provided to all areas of the firm are critical for maintaining our commitments to our clients, regulators and shareholders and to promote our culture of excellence and integrity. Our goal is to provide legal advice that protects the firm’s financial well-being and reputation and assists our various businesses in evaluating the risks associated with completing transactions and other activities.
• The Conflicts Resolution Group (CRG) is a control function whose mission is to evaluate advisory, financing, principal investing, lending and certain other activities to identify actual or perceived conflicts of interest and assess the potential reputational risks resulting from the potential intersection among new and existing roles, positions and responsibilities that the firm may have.

The CLC Management Team is at the forefront of ensuring the firm’s control functions operate in a manner that is best in class for Compliance, Legal and Conflicts. We are looking for a team member who can help drive our headcount and budget process forward, by collaborating with divisional management, the firm’s finance team and key stakeholders across each business unit.

A candidate should demonstrate comfort with leveraging financial data and technology (e.g., Anaplan, Alteryx, Power Query) to drive business decisions, as well as excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

We are looking for someone who is equal parts visionary and executor. At times, the role will require you to navigate and problem solve with multiple teams and interested parties, bearing in mind timelines and a senior audience. Examples of duties include:

• Contribute to the production, review and analysis of budget presentations for senior leadership

• Incumbent must be comfortable navigating large data sets and distilling information into a C-suite level presentation

• Perform reporting and analysis on compensation, non-compensation and headcount functions for the division’s leadership

• Develop financial models using Excel to illustrate projection and budget tracking

• Consultant and staff augmentation reporting in Compliance, Legal and CRG

• Partner with human capital management, operations, hiring managers and other key stakeholders to execute…