The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Legal, Transaction Banking, Vice President, New York City/Dallas

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$166K — $200K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 3-7 years of experience in law, preferably in a leading law firm or a large financial institution.
  • J.D. required; must be an active, good-standing member of the New York or Texas State Bar.
  • Exceptional communication skills for effective stakeholder engagement.
  • Collaborative team player with strong commercial judgment and analytical ability.
  • Highly motivated and detail-oriented, with strong organizational skills for managing multiple projects under deadlines.
  • Proactive advisor with a willingness to tackle new challenges.
  • Self-starter with a strong work ethic and a sense of personal accountability.

Responsibilities

  • Review and negotiate client contracts, updating and managing contract templates and negotiation playbooks.
  • Advise on product development for Transaction Banking, focusing on regulatory impacts and legal risks in operational flows.
  • Support client relations, operational governance, and communication strategies.
  • Review customer-facing materials like guides, forms, and marketing content.
  • Identify and escalate legal issues promptly to senior management in business and legal departments.
  • Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to mitigate legal, regulatory, and reputational risks.
  • Engage with external counsel for specialized legal support.

Benefits

  • Access to advanced legal and technological resources in a rapidly evolving finance sector.
  • Opportunity to shape the development of innovative Transaction Banking services.
  • Collaborative work environment within a leading global financial institution.
  • Professional development opportunities to enhance legal expertise in financial services.
  • Engagement with a diverse professional network across multiple departments and external partners.
Full Job Description
Job Description

LEGAL

The Transaction Banking Legal team is seeking an experienced attorney to provide legal support to Goldman Sachs' new and globally-expanding Transaction Banking business. Transaction Banking is reimagining treasury leveraging modern technology and a cloud-native, API-first platform to deliver digital payments, FX, and liquidity solutions to corporates and financial institutions. Primary responsibilities will include advising on legal issues in connection with development and expansion of TxB products and services, advice on strategy and business decisions, conduct review on customer facing material, provide guidance on new and existing regulations, and drafting/negotiating/executing client agreements.

This attorney must be experienced in contract negotiation and comfortable engaging with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. Experience with financial services, product development, payments or cash management products would be a plus.

Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for the review and negotiation of client contracts, as well as updating and maintaining TxB contract templates and negotiation playbooks;
  • Advise on the development and expansion of TxB products and services, including the impact of new and existing regulations, while helping to advise on legal risks related to operational flows such as client on-boarding processes;
  • Provide support for client service/operations, business governance, and customer communications
  • Review customer facing materials, including guides, forms and marketing materials
  • Timely identify, escalate and communicate issues to senior members of the business and legal department
  • Coordinate and collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders to identify and help mitigate legal, regulatory and reputational risks
  • Instruct/work with/manage external counsel


Qualifications:
  • 3-7 years of experience at a leading law firm or equivalent experience at a large financial institution.
  • J.D. required; active member of the New York or Texas State Bar in good standing.
  • Excellent communications skills
  • Team player with inherent commercial judgment and strong analytical skills.
  • Highly motivated and adaptable, including detail-oriented, organizational skills and the ability to manage several simultaneous projects under tight deadlines.
  • Ability to engage proactively as an advisor to the business and collaboratively work with other control areas, including willingness to work in new areas outside of their comfort zone.
  • Self-starter, strong work ethic and personal accountability.

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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