Corporate Planning & Management-Bengaluru-Analyst-Product Management

Goldman Sachs; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

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Job summary

Goldman Sachs Bank AG in Bengaluru seeks an Associate for Contingent Workforce governance and risk management within CPM. The role collaborates with senior leaders, drives analytics, and supports CW policy implementation across the firm.

Ideal candidates will have 3–5 years of relevant experience, excellent communication, and the ability to work with global counterparts. Strong MS Excel and PowerPoint skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record.
• 3–5 years in risk, contingent workforce, or business management.
• Analytical and leadership-facing experience required.

Responsibilities

• Become a Subject Matter Expert on Contingent Workforce Policies and Standards.
• Advise internal stakeholders on CW risk and governance queries.
• Build relationships with teams to understand program impact across divisions.
• Partner with the team to support India/regional process nuances.
• Support timely responses to risk teams and 2nd Line reviews (Compliance, Internal Audit).
• Identify and lead CW program enhancements driven by evolving processes and user experience.
• Drive continuous process improvements and bring innovations to the team.
• Lead initiatives from inception to completion and document key approvals.
• Coordinate inputs for firmwide transformation initiatives affecting CW programs.
• Maintain CW program documentation to ensure consistency with initiatives.
• Prepare content for senior forums and divisional leadership meetings.
• Oversee BAU CW components, including dashboards and exception requests.
• Engage with regional expectations and deliver on time.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Leadership experience

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Divisional Overview

The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm. CPM has 5 operating pillars:Finance & Planningsupports the execution of the firm’s strategic objectives through the management of the planning process, firmwide reporting and analytics and insights into the firm’s business plans and budgets. They develop consistent framework for revenue division projections creating transparency, accountability and efficiency around projections. This pillar also includes the CF&O, EO and Engineering divisional CFOs, who are strategic finance advisors helping the firm and the non-revenue divisions achieve commercial financial opportunities.Product Finance is responsible for the overall governance and proactive management of the firm’s non-compensation expenses.Spend Managementencompasses the functions responsible for managing all aspects of the firm's spend with third parties - advising commercial agreements and driving operating efficiency. Departments include Strategic Sourcing, Procure to Pay, Integrated Travel and Expense, Infrastructure and Transformation and Sustainable Operations.Operational Risk & Resilience (ORR) drives firmwide Operational Risk programs along with second line teams and implements required changes within CPM. This pillar also includes the Contingent Workforce Management team,CWM Team ensures effective execution of contingent workforce controls by providing oversight and guidance, managing CW risks, incidents, reporting and compliance activities, maintaining accurate worker records and management tools, supporting policy interpretation and exception management, and overseeing end-to-end operational processes including vendor coordination, onboarding/offboarding, data integrity, and escalation of CW-related risks and policy violations.The CPM Engineering team provides engineering solutions that enable the firm to manage third-party spend, data and automation, plan budgets, forecast financial scenarios, allocate expenses and support corporate decision making in-line with the firm’s strategic objectives.

Role Overview

Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. The Associate level role is based in Bangalore and sits within Unified Contingent workforceteam which is responsible for the governance and operations of the contingent workforce of the firm.CWM Team is responsible for the implementation, maintenance, oversight, and periodic review of the Policy and Standard. Through its governance and operations functions, CWM Team ensures effective execution of contingent workforce controls by providing oversight and guidance, managing CW risks, incidents, reporting and compliance activities, maintaining accurate worker records and management tools, supporting policy interpretation and exception management, and overseeing end-to-end operational processes including vendor coordination, onboarding/offboarding, data integrity, and escalation of CW-related risks and policy violations.

The role requires collaboration with senior leadership across the firm on a regular basis, an ability to work independently, have a strategic mindset and communication with impact that helps driving firm’s 3.0 strategies and projects. It also entails in-depth analysis and reporting for senior management, requiring diligence, risk and a commercial mindset. The candidate is required to work closely with global counterparts. Should have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Become a Subject Matter Expert of the Contingent Workforce Policies and Standards, including process governance and controls, risk management
• Act as a key advisor to internal stakeholders and help address queries related to the risk and governance of CWs
• Build strong business relationships with teammates and stakeholders firmwide to understand impact of the Program requirements based on the business and divisional initiatives
• Partner with the team to support deliver on and further evolve the India/regional process nuances
• Participate and support CWM team for timely responses to risk teams and 2nd Line reviews (e.g., Compliance, Internal Audit, Operational Risk)
• Identify and lead unified CW Program enhancements driven by evolving process and user experience demand
• Drive projects for continuous process and user experience improvement and bring innovation into the team
• Lead initiatives / strategies from inception to completion
• Communicate progress and decision points for projects to relevant functions and maintain key documentation of approvals where required
• Coordinate input into firmwide transformation initiatives impacting (CW) Programs (e.g., vendor onboarding transformation, Contingent worker on-boarding transformation, Gating council, ODC etc.)
• Maintain CW program(s) documentation (e.g., policies, standards, procedures, reference guides, training content) to ensure consistency with program initiatives, and broader CWM transformation priorities
• Coordinate content for internal senior forums and divisional leadership engagement meetings (e.g., Committees, Governance Groups, etc.)
• Oversight of business-as-usual Program components (i.e, reviewing queries, CW dashboard and exception requests from other divisions and business units)
• Engage, initiate, contribute and deliver on regional expectations

Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification with an excellent academic record
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in the field of risk, Contingent workforce, and/or business management
• Analytical capabilities and leadership facing experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal (written and verbal) skills, strong attention to detail
• Ability to lead across team members and drive assignments to completion
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing deadlines
• Solid work ethic and high level of motivation
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

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.

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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