The Role
Fighting financial crime is a crucial line of defense for Goldman Sachs. The Suspicious Activity Monitoring & Reporting (“SAMR”) Group within Financial Crime Compliance is looking for well-rounded professionals seeking to make an impact by protecting the firm against various forms of financial crime risk including money laundering, bribery, corruption, tax evasion, etc.
Specifically, SAMR Risk & Advisory is looking for professionals with FCC experience to assist with key functions and responsibilities in one of three main areas – namely, Standards, Advisory, and the Financial Intelligence Unit. Each function is a separate team dedicated to assist with the overall mandate of SAMR.
Standards is a group that implements policies and procedures, oversees quality processes, interfaces with assurance groups, coordinates issue management and corrective actions, and establishes resource management strategies.
Advisory is a group that performs oversight and monitoring of processes in which SAMR relies on another group within the firm such as Treasury or Operations, interfaces with other FCC teams to provide surveillance and/or system feedback and user acceptance testing and develops tactical solutions through end user computing tools to enhance program effectiveness and efficiency.
The Financial Intelligence Unit is a group that serves as the measurement analysis and reporting interface for the SAMR organization with consumers of relevant information across FCC as well as the risk analysis function for emerging risks in the FCC program.
Recommended Skillsets:
- Expertise in applicable regulations (e.g., BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN)
- Expertise in policy, procedure drafting
- Expertise in quality processes
- Expertise in exam management and issue tracking
- Expertise in data analysis, partner processing controls and monitoring
- Expertise in financial crime risk mitigation controls, financial crime investigations, EDD process, banking products and services and customer risk profiles
Preferred Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience
- Prior compliance experience is preferable, prior AML experience is a plus
- Strong analytical and risk assessment skills
- Ability to multi-task and adapt to changing work flows
- Ability to prioritize work flows and ensure deadlines are met
- Ability to forge strong relationships with colleagues and clients
- Ability to work independently and yet still be team-oriented
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proactive, self-motivated, detail oriented, and well-organized
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree required