Overview
Financial Crime Compliance (“FCC”) is part of the firm’s Global Compliance Division and is responsible for coordinating Goldman Sachs’ enterprise-wide anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and government sanctions compliance efforts. Within FCC, the Anti-Bribery & Corruption team is responsible for implementing the firmwide anti-bribery and anti-corruption program, including assessment of the firm’s bribery/corruption risk, development and implementation of policies and procedures to prevent, detect and report bribery and corrupt payments; due diligence with respect to proposed transactions, intermediaries, and certain other business counterparties; training of relevant personnel; monitoring and surveillance of gifts, travel and entertainment; investigations of “red flags” and internal escalations; and bringing significant issues to the attention of senior management.
Principal Responsibilities:
The Anti-Bribery Compliance Associate would assist in all aspects of the anti-bribery program, including but not limited to:
- Supporting the implementation of anti-bribery policies, procedures and projects
- Conducting intermediary/finder, vendor, third party distributor, and transaction due diligence reviews, analysis and writing-up generating reports
- Reviewing gifts, travel and entertainment, relationship candidate and charitable contribution requests
- Investigating escalations and conducting forensic reviews and data analytics
- Conducting firmwide and targeted bribery risk assessments
- Collaborating with firmwide risk partners on anti-bribery matters
- Contribute to overall program management and governance by:
- Tracking/monitoring team productivity and efficiency
- Creating and providing anti-bribery training
- Generating firmwide anti-bribery metrical reporting
- Maintaining bribery risk and anti-bribery control inventories
- Collaborating with other control functions
Basic Qualifications:
- A minimum 3 years of prior experience in anti-bribery/anti-corruption compliance, legal, consulting, law enforcement, investigations or audit preferred
- Excellent written and oral communication/presentation skills (fluency in English required)
- Strong analytical, investigative and risk assessment skills
- Ability to prioritize demanding workflows, be detailed-oriented and well-organized
- Ability to adapt to new changes and new challenges
- Effective interpersonal skills and ability to forge strong relationships with colleagues and clients
- Self-starter, pro-active and able to work independently and yet still be team-oriented
- Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel proficiency preferred), and databases such as World-Check, Factiva, and Lexis/Nexis