The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Compliance, ECO Risk Management, Vice President, Dallas

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$160K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in financial services, legal, regulatory, compliance, or risk management.
  • Bachelor's degree required; JD, LLM or equivalent legal qualification preferred.
  • Experience in reviewing, interpreting, and applying laws and regulations in financial services.
  • Strong understanding of compliance risk management and regulatory governance processes.
  • Ability to simplify complex legal requirements for varied audiences.
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
  • Effective communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and manage a firmwide regulatory inventory process for laws and regulations.
  • Apply legal judgment to assess regulatory scope and applicability.
  • Draft and review clear summaries of regulatory obligations.
  • Prepare senior-level materials for regulatory governance routines.
  • Manage and maintain inventory content and its connectivity to firm systems.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to interpret regulatory requirements for the firm.
  • Improve legal analysis processes through automation and data quality initiatives.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
  • Access to a wide range of resources to enhance compliance knowledge.
  • A collaborative work environment with a diverse team of experts.
  • Participation in cutting-edge regulatory projects and initiatives.
  • Flexibility to work on multiple time-sensitive projects.
Full Job Description
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.

Enterprise Compliance Office - Risk Management is a team within Global Compliance responsible for implementing and maintaining the firm's integrated regulatory compliance program, including risk assessments, regulatory change management, policies, and training. This team is at the forefront of aligning our firm's compliance program with applicable laws, rules, regulations and evolving regulatory expectations. We are looking for a legal or regulatory practitioner to drive our mission forward by applying legal analysis, regulatory subject matter expertise and sound judgment to the design, execution and governance of firmwide regulatory inventory and compliance risk management processes. The role requires excellent communication skills, close collaboration across Compliance, Legal, Risk, Engineering and business stakeholders, and the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable program requirements for senior audiences.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Principal Responsibilities:
  • Support the design, implementation and ongoing management of a strategic, sustainable firmwide regulatory inventory process for in-scope laws, rules and regulations ("LRRs")
  • Apply legal and regulatory judgment to assess LRR scope, applicability, issuing authority, enforceability and materiality in accordance with program standards
  • Review, draft and challenge plain-language LRR and obligation summaries to promote accurate, consistent and actionable understanding of regulatory requirements
  • Support regulatory inventory governance routines across Compliance and the firm, including preparation of senior-level materials, decision papers and escalation content
  • Manage inventory content, including scope, regulatory source data, citations, summaries, attributes and connectivity with firmwide systems, policies, controls and risk taxonomies
  • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk and business stakeholders to interpret regulatory requirements and assess implications for the firm's products, services, jurisdictions, regulated activities and control environment
  • Align the regulatory inventory process with the broader regulations management strategy, including regulatory change management, traceability, policy mapping and compliance risk assessment objectives
  • Identify opportunities to enhance legal and regulatory analysis through improved process design, data quality, automation, AI tooling and sustainable governance controls
  • Support responses to regulatory examinations, inquiries, internal audit reviews and other oversight activities by developing clear, well-supported explanations of program design, standards and execution

Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of experience in financial services, legal, regulatory, compliance, risk management or a comparable control function
  • Bachelor's degree required; JD, LLM or equivalent legal/regulatory qualification strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated experience reviewing, interpreting and applying laws, rules, regulations, regulatory guidance or supervisory expectations in a financial services environment
  • Strong understanding of compliance risk management program mandates, regulatory inventory, regulatory change, policy governance, controls and/or obligations management
  • Ability to distill complex legal and regulatory requirements into concise, practical and actionable summaries for business, Compliance and senior management audiences
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking and written communication skills, with strong attention to detail and a proven track record of execution against deadlines
  • Sound judgment and professional maturity, including the ability to identify issues, escalate appropriately and provide credible challenge in a collaborative environment
  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, including frequent interaction with Legal, Compliance, Risk, business and senior stakeholders
  • Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive priorities, operate independently and demonstrate resiliency and creativity under pressure
  • MS Office proficiency; advanced knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel preferred
  • Comfort using AI tooling and data-enabled approaches to support legal, regulatory and analytical reviews

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
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