The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Compliance, FCC - Digital Assets, Vice President, New York

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $180K — $220K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 7+ years experience in Financial Crime Compliance or related control function in regulated financial institutions
  • Strong knowledge of blockchain technologies and digital assets
  • Experience in designing compliance controls for digital asset risks
  • Deep understanding of anti-money laundering and fraud risk management frameworks
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree or certifications preferred
  • Proficient in conducting risk assessments and developing financial crime controls
  • Exceptional communication skills to present complex information to diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior contact on digital asset financial crime compliance matters
  • Identify and assess risks of money laundering and fraud within digital assets
  • Provide risk-based guidance through product lifecycle stages
  • Lead integration of vendors for blockchain analytics
  • Design and oversee customer due diligence and transaction monitoring controls
  • Develop expertise in digital asset transaction typologies
  • Monitor regulatory changes and implement practical compliance strategies
  • Engage with regulators and support audit preparations

Benefits

  • Collaborative team environment with diverse professional backgrounds
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning
  • Access to advanced technology and analytics tools
  • Ability to shape compliance strategy in a rapidly evolving field
  • Engagement with global regulatory standards and practices
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.

Financial Crime Compliance

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.

Job Summary & Responsibilities

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, stablecoins, 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.

Key Responsibilities
  • 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, counterparties, 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 analytics, transaction monitoring, investigations, suspicious activity escalation and recordkeeping.
  • Develop a deep understanding of blockchain, DLT, wallets, custody models, token structures, smart contracts, stablecoins and transaction typologies to identify novel risks and control implications.
  • Assess cross-business and cross-regional risk impacts, promote consistent minimum standards and support documented treatment of regional variances.
  • Monitor and analyze new or amended laws, regulations, regulatory guidance, enforcement actions and industry practices, translating developments into practical requirements, guidance and action plans.
  • Support engagement with regulators, auditors and other independent reviewers, including preparation for examinations, responses to information requests and remediation of findings.
  • Develop and deliver policies, procedures, training, management information, metrics and governance materials for senior stakeholders and relevant committees.
  • Collaborate with business, technology and control stakeholders to improve data quality, system capabilities, automation and the effectiveness of preventive and detective controls.
  • Build strong networks across the firm and with relevant industry forums or trade associations to support informed and consistent approaches to emerging financial crime risks.
  • Identify and escalate material risks and control weaknesses and oversee agreed remediation.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in Financial Crime Compliance, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Internal Audit or a related control function, preferably within a large financial institution or regulated digital assets business.
  • Working knowledge of blockchain, DLT and digital assets, or demonstrated experience assessing financial crime risks and controls for new products, technologies or payment models.
  • Experience working building out compliance controls to cover digital assets risks, including experience working with blockchain analytics vendors
  • Strong working knowledge of anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions and fraud risk management frameworks, including customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, investigations and regulatory reporting.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience; a legal, financial, technical, risk or compliance background is preferred.
  • Experience conducting risk assessments and designing, implementing or overseeing effective financial crime controls.
  • Ability to interpret complex and evolving regulatory expectations and translate them into practical guidance, control requirements and executable action plans.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand complex product structures, technology-enabled workflows, transaction flows and data dependencies.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex issues, risk decisions, metrics and recommendations clearly to diverse stakeholders and senior management.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and regions, influence stakeholders and provide constructive, independent challenge.
  • Demonstrated project and time management skills, including the ability to prioritize multiple initiatives and deliver high-quality outcomes in a changing environment.
  • Inquisitive, proactive and solutions-oriented mindset, with a focus on sustainable control enhancement and appropriate automation.

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
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
NASDAQ
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