Compliance - Financial Crime; Business Intelligence Group), Analyst

Overview

OUR IMPACT

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.

Job Description

OUR IMPACT

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.

YOUR IMPACT

• The Business Intelligence Group (BIG) in Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is seeking someone with relevant skills and experience to work within the BIG team in connection with their review of transactions across a range of jurisdictions in EMEA. The particular role is a research position supporting the BIG team in connection with their review of transactions and business relationships across a range of jurisdictions in EMEA.
• BIG is a transactional review and due diligence group dedicated to the identification and evaluation of legal, regulatory and reputational risk raised by transactions to support the firm’s business lines and firmwide committees in their efforts to make fully informed commercial and reputational risk management decisions and to meet regulatory requirements. These business lines include investment banking, principal investments and certain asset management businesses.
  
  BIG works closely with external counsel, deal teams and subject matter experts within Global Compliance (including broader FCC) and the Legal Division.
• BIG is composed of lawyers and compliance professionals with extensive regulatory, government, audit and transactional experience.
• This is an opportunity to work in a global team on a diverse range of transactions across jurisdictions.
• This in-office role is based in Goldman Sachs’ Birmingham office. The successful candidate will work within and support the BIG EMEA team which is currently based in Goldman Sachs’ London office. The expectation is that in the future additional hires for BIG EMEA will be made in Birmingham where FCC is growing a diverse and dynamic team

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-house public records research on companies and other counter parties using online resources, specialist databases and public filings
• Instruct and liaise with external investigative consultants, evaluate their reports and challenge findings where necessary
• Conduct/support due diligence to help the identification and assessment of legal, regulatory and reputational risk across a variety of transactions and…