Asset & Wealth Management, Business Controls, Analyst/Associate, Dublin Dublin · Ireland · Associate

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

Pension plan

On-site facilities

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in Dublin seeks an experienced Risk & Controls professional to lead Business Risk and Controls for the Savings business. You will manage risk, design controls and collaborate across 1st, 2nd and 3rd lines to ensure regulatory compliance and operational resilience.

This role requires a strong background in risk management, regulatory knowledge and the ability to influence across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in risk management and control testing, ideally operating in the 1st line.
• In-depth understanding of Operational Risk within a regulated environment.
• Understanding of EU and Irish retail banking regulations.
• Degree in Finance or related field preferred.
• Excellent business analytical, good eye for detail.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to influence people.

Responsibilities

• Lead our Business Risk and Controls efforts, ensuring a robust risk management framework including control self-assessment, control assurance, resilience and incident management.
• Establish a strong risk cadence across all Savings business areas within the risk appetite.
• Ensure compliance with policies, procedures and authority levels across cross-functional teams.
• Develop strategies to manage Regulatory and Operational Risk with 2nd and 3rd line teams.
• Provide direction to leadership to ensure key controls are in place for regulatory and operational risk.
• Leads a small team of risk professionals and drives the risk strategy.
• Support monthly control testing and identify gaps in controls for new or emerging risks.
• Conduct regular risk assessments and quantify risks affecting the team and wider business.
• Collaborate with global Risk teams to embed risk appetite into policies and controls.
• Conduct audits of policy and compliance to standards.
• Develop and deliver risk training materials for teams.

Skills

Risk management

Control testing

Regulatory knowledge

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Finance degree or related field

Job description

Asset & Wealth Management, Business Controls, Analyst/Associate, Dublin location_on Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland

OUR IMPACT

Across Asset Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking, and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our direct-to-consumer business provides digital solutions that help customers save and invest. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data, and design.

YOUR IMPACT

Are you passionate about customer services, operations, leadership, and using digital tools to provide solutions to customers? Do you have a background in risk management and controls operating in the 1st line? We’re looking for an experienced risk professional to support our business.

What you’ll do:

• Reporting to the Head of Ireland Business Controls, you will lead our Business Risk and Controls efforts, ensuring a robust business risk management framework incorporating risk and control self-assessment and control assurance, business resilience, business continuity and incident management
• Responsible for establishing a strong risk cadence across all areas of the Savings business, managing our risks within the required business appetite
• Ensures compliance with established policies, procedures and authority levels across multiple cross-functional teams and processes
• Develops strategies to manage Regulatory and Operational Risk, working in collaboration with 2nd and 3rd line teams to identify any risks and managing issues in line with agreed business policies
• Provides direction and support to the business leadership team to ensure key controls are in place to manage Regulatory and Operational Risk
• Leads a small team of risk professionals, driving the risk strategy along with ensuring all required activities are completed in accordance with the business risk framework
• Supports monthly control testing across business procedures, as directed by the leadership team, to identify any gaps in controls of new / emerging risks
• Completes ongoing risk assessments; analysing existing risks along with new and emerging risks and identifying, describing and estimating the risks affecting the team and wider business
• Works closely with global Risk teams to establish and quantify the risk appetite and ensure this is embedded into policies, procedures and controls
• Conducts regular audits of policy and compliance to standards
• Partners with Delivery and Training and Development to collect and analyse data from each audit/monitor activity and assist customer support teams with the development and implementation of appropriate corrective action plans, training tips, and team communication to improve overall quality results
• Designs appropriate and ongoing risk training materials and facilitates training across all the teams
• Completes regular Risk Control Self Assessments for the savings business
• Provides monthly Risk and Compliance dashboard
• Provides monthly report on control testing
• Works with teams, and across the business to ensure the incident management and business continuity plans are well understood

REQUIREMENTS

• In depth product and regulatory knowledge across retail banking
• 3-5 years of experience in risk management and control testing, ideally operating in the 1st line
• In depth understanding of Operational Risk, within a regulated environment
• Understanding of EU and Irish retail banking regulations
• In-depth knowledge of management, regulatory policies and legal requirements
• Degree in Finance or a related field preferred
• Excellent business analytical, good eye for detail
• Excellent planning or organizational skills
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to influence people
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, verbal and written communication skills
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced, changing, start-up environment
• Problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Good technical acumen: ability to understand the wider digital business architecture

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. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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.

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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