Compliance, Control Room, Associate, Birmingham

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 defence, 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

The Control Room, part of Global Compliance, is seeking a compliance officer for a role in Birmingham. The Control Room is primarily responsible for preserving the integrity of the Firm's information barriers by monitoring and controlling the flow of confidential information between the Firm's private/advisory side businesses (e.g., Global Banking & Markets Private, and Asset Wealth Management Private, Finance and Risk) and public side businesses (e.g., Global Banking & Markets Public, Asset Wealth Management Public and Global Investment Research). Additionally, the Control Room is tasked with staying close to banking transactions to ensure that all legal and policy restrictions are activated in a timely manner, as well as advising the business areas at the firm dealing with trading and research as to the applicability of those restrictions.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Interacting with the Global Banking & Markets and Asset Wealth Management Divisions to maintain the Firm's Confidential Lists
• Reviewing research published by Global Investment Research to ensure compliance with certain legal and regulatory obligations
• Liaising with Legal and other areas of Compliance in order to monitor and/or restrict sales, trading and/or research activities pursuant to certain legal, regulatory and/or policy considerations
• Applying the Research Settlement rules to facilitate communications between Equity Research and Global Banking & Markets Private personnel
• Manage the Firm's bespoke Materiality Checking process, working with the Conflicts Resolution Group, to facilitate approval for certain Firm and client transactions and subsequent risk management activities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• College or university graduate with 4+ years of compliance experience in financial services, preferably with control room and/or private side compliance
• Strong understanding of Investment Banking & Securities business and products
• Strong understanding of the current regulatory environment and financial markets and/or securities regulation and rules
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office products, tools, and utilities for business use
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work as a member of a team in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to work with automation and analytics tools (Alteryx, Tableau, Databases)
• Passed CFA Level 1 or higher is added advantage
• Knowledge of US Securities laws including, SEC Reg M, SEC Rules 14e-5, 144A and Reg D etc

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at

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We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Birmingham
JOB FUNCTION
Financial Crime Controls
DIVISION
Compliance Division