Goldman Sachs
Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, DS&I, Vice President, New York
Business Unit and Role Overview
Financial Crime Compliance (“FCC”) has primary responsibility for the execution of the firm’s enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”), anti-bribery, and government sanctions compliance programs and, among other things, performs enhanced due diligence and government sanctions screening, as well as surveillance and investigations designed to identify potential terrorist financing, money laundering, bribery, market abuse, or other suspicious activity.
Opportunity
FCC is seeking an individual to join its FCC Data, Systems and Innovation team to assist in implementing and operating Know Your Customer (“KYC”) surveillance models, model tuning and supporting KYC analytics across the firm’s businesses. S/he will be working with cross-divisional partners, including technology, operations and business personnel through all aspects of strategic and tactical builds of a critical KYC program, including but not limited to the following:
- Capturing, analyzing and documenting business requirements and functional specifications
- Data sourcing, data analysis and identifying data requirements
- Assist in development and implementation of KYC analytics
- Data and surveillance validation planning and execution
- Project tracking and execution
- Conduct investigative and testing reviews of FCC’s controls and related partnered controls
- Draft detailed investigative and testing reports, including opinions, findings and corrective action plans
- Documentation of project artifacts for Compliance testing, Model Validation, regulatory and audit purposes
The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills, the ability to collaborate with others, manage workflows and multi-task. The team member is expected to quickly gain an understanding of the firm’s global businesses, and the rules and regulations under which the Bank operates.
The role is open to start immediately.
Basic Qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 or more years of prior experience in an analytical role in Financial Crimes Compliance, with an emphasis on KYC is preferred.
- Bachelor degree in Engineering/Technology with relevant work experience
- Understanding of AML and terrorist financing trends and typologies
- Experience with Data Lake, Tableau/Qliksense/Qlikview, Excel (pivots, VLookups) and/or other data analytics/visualization tools
- Ability to deal with data models and work on mapping data across platforms
- Excellent organization and project management skills – ability to execute and manage a project independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to adapt to new changes and new challenges
- Ability to prioritize work flows and ensure deadlines are met
- Ability to work independently and manage a team
- String knowledge of databases, SQL scripts and querying large data sets
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