The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Tax Product & Change Management - Salt Lake City - Vice President

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $160K — $200K *
Salt Lake City, UT 84118In-Person
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years in Tax Operations, Finance, Accounting, or related fields.
  • Strategic leadership and portfolio management across various sectors.
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and decision-making in uncertain environments.
  • Deep knowledge in business analysis, process design, and data governance.
  • Ability to review complex business and functional requirement documents.
  • Strong executive communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Proven talent leadership capabilities including coaching and succession planning.

Responsibilities

  • Lead large-scale regulatory and operational initiatives in Tax Operations.
  • Own all aspects of problem framing and delivery strategies for portfolio initiatives.
  • Ensure comprehensive and traceable requirements for processes and controls.
  • Resolve conflicting perspectives from various disciplines into a unified target state.
  • Advise senior management on delivery risks and implications for tax operations.
  • Ensure thorough user acceptance testing and post-implementation reviews.
  • Represent Tax Operations in high-level governance and risk discussions.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape enterprise-wide change in Tax Operations.
  • Exposure to high-impact global initiatives and senior decision-makers.
  • Possibility to build team capability and influence future operating models.
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Job Description

Role Overview

Tax Operations is a critical part of the firm's global Tax function. The Business Analyst team translates tax, regulatory, risk, and business requirements into clear operating models, data requirements, controls, and technology-enabled solutions. The team partners with Tax specialists, Operations, Engineering, Controllers, business stakeholders, and governance functions to deliver compliant, scalable, and well-documented outcomes.

The role combines structured problem solving, requirements analysis, process and data design, delivery governance, testing, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement. The expected scale of ownership and leadership increases by level, while all team members are accountable for accuracy, evidence, clear communication, and disciplined execution.

Day-to-Day Work Across the Team
  • Assess new regulations, products, markets, organizational changes, and operational issues to determine tax-process, data, control, and technology impacts.
  • Gather, challenge, reconcile, and document business, functional, data, reporting, and control requirements in formats that Engineering and business users can implement and validate.
  • Map current and target-state processes, roles and responsibilities, change triggers, upstream and downstream dependencies, decision logic, exception paths, and handoffs.
  • Document end-to-end data lineage, source inventories, definitions, ownership, controls, and evidence; coordinate remediation of gaps and changes to data sources.
  • Plan and execute user acceptance testing, regression testing, defect triage, root-cause analysis, sign-off, implementation readiness, and post-implementation review.
  • Manage delivery through clear plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, actions, and stakeholder communications.
  • Identify opportunities to replace manual activity with durable workflows, controls, analytics, automation, and responsible use of AI.
  • Maintain high-quality knowledge artifacts, including BRDs/FRDs, process maps, decision models, test packs, operating procedures, governance records, and audit-ready evidence.

Your Impact

Lead complex change portfolios and shape the strategic direction of Tax Operations Business Analysis. You will translate regulatory and business priorities into executable roadmaps, establish standards, guide teams through ambiguity, and influence senior stakeholders across Tax, Operations, Engineering, Controllers, and the businesses.

Primary Responsibilities
  • Lead large, multi-workstream initiatives covering regulatory implementation, new products and markets, operating-model change, data and control remediation, and technology transformation.
  • Own problem framing, scope, priorities, delivery approach, governance, resourcing, decision-making, and escalation for the portfolio.
  • Ensure requirements are complete, traceable, unambiguous, testable, and supported by end-to-end process, data lineage, control, and sign-off evidence.
  • Challenge assumptions and reconcile business, tax, data, engineering, control, and operational perspectives into one coherent target state.
  • Advise senior management on tax-operational implications, delivery risk, dependencies, trade-offs, and readiness for implementation.
  • Ensure robust UAT, regression testing, defect management, implementation readiness, and post-implementation review.
  • Represent Tax Operations in senior governance, audit, regulatory, risk, data, and technology forums.
  • Drive automation, analytics, AI adoption, and simplification while maintaining governance, transparency, and control effectiveness.
  • Build team capability through coaching, quality review, succession planning, reusable standards, and active knowledge transfer.

Day-to-Day Activities at This Level
  • Set direction and standards; approve scope, target state, control approach, and readiness.
  • Own senior stakeholder alignment, critical decisions, portfolio risk, and escalation.
  • Ensure consistent quality across all workstreams.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential
  • Shape enterprise-wide change while deepening expertise in tax operations, data, controls, technology, and strategic leadership.
  • Gain broad exposure to senior decision-makers and high-impact global initiatives.
  • Build enduring team capability and influence the future operating model of Tax Operations.

Skills & Experience We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience in Tax Operations, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Technology, Risk, or a related field.
  • Strategic leadership and portfolio management across regions, products, and functions.
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders, resolve conflict, and make decisions under uncertainty.
  • Deep expertise in business analysis, process design, data governance, controls, delivery governance, and change management.
  • Ability to review complex BRDs/FRDs, process maps, data models, lineage, decision logic, testing evidence, and control documentation.
  • Strong written and verbal executive communication, including concise escalation framing and decision papers.
  • Demonstrated talent leadership, coaching, delegation, quality assurance, and succession planning.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Advanced experience with Excel and one or more of SQL, Alteryx, Python, Tableau, or Power BI.
  • Experience with JIRA and Confluence, process-modeling tools such as Signavio or Visio, decision models such as DMN, and enterprise data-governance platforms.
  • Knowledge of Information & Withholding (IRW) concepts such as FATCA, NRA, Backup Withholding , regulatory change, data controls, and audit or examination support.
  • Experience applying automation or AI to requirements, documentation, testing, controls, operational workflows, or analytics.

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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