Global Banking & Markets - NFR Public - Associate - Bengaluru Bengaluru · India · Associate

Goldman Sachs; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

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Healthcare & Medical Insurance

Vacation & Time Off

Financial Wellness & Retirement

On-site Health Centers

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Wellbeing & Fitness Programs

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Bengaluru seeks an Analyst/Associate for the Global Banking & Markets Operational Resilience team. You will work in APAC & India GBM Public Resilience, driving risk mitigation and continuity planning across functions, facilities, systems, and third parties.

The role involves coordinating with Risk, Internal Audit, and business divisions to enhance resiliency and deliver training, dashboards, and metrics for regulatory and firm-wide standards.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in analytics, risk, or resilience domains.
• Strong communication and ability to summarize complex data.
• Experience with risk metrics, controls, and business continuity concepts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of APAC & India GBM Public Crisis Management team.
• Drive education, awareness, and adoption of Operational Resilience program.
• Oversee completeness and annual certification of all BCPs for the region.
• Manage Assurance Tests to validate resiliency of critical processes.
• Lead divisional assurance activities with tabletop exercises and drills.
• Ensure adherence to regional Operational Resilience guidelines.
• Manage day-to-day tasks and contribute to process improvement projects.
• Collaborate with Risk partners to align activities with resiliency strategy.
• Advise business divisions on resilience matters and train on risk tools.

Skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Time management

Ownership

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Dashboard development

Data visualization

Tools

Tableau

Ignite Pad

Alteryx

Job description

Who we are
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, India and other major financial centers around the world.

Global Banking & Markets
Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team that includes individuals who have a passion for the markets and who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor. At Goldman Sachs, our culture is one of teamwork, innovation, and meritocracy. We often say our people are our greatest asset and we take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally. From collaborative workspaces and ergonomic services to wellbeing and resilience offerings, we offer our professionals the flexibility and support they need to reach their goals in and outside the office.

About FICC & Equities

We make markets in and clear client transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide. Through our global sales force, we maintain relationships with our clients, receiving orders and distributing investment research, trading ideas, market information and analysis.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• We are recruiting for a Bengaluru office-based Analyst/Associate (2-5 years' experience) to join the Global Banking & Markets Operational Resilience team, within the Global Banking & Markets Public Operational Risk organization.
• The Global Banking & Markets Operating Risk organization encompasses numerous functions including global management and oversight of Supervisory, Conduct and Operational Controls as well as divisional Technology and Operational Risk, and operational resilience. The organization spans 10 offices across the globe.
• The Operational Resilience team is accountable for (1) pre-emptively identifying and mitigating threats to operating Resiliency Objectives that are established for Global Banking & Markets primary functions including Capital Markets, Banking, Operations and Engineering, and (2) preparedness for, and risk management of, incidents that may impact those objectives.
• The successful hire will be responsible for driving initiatives to reduce risk and improve resiliency throughout the Global Banking & Markets front-to-back organization, ensuring effective recovery plans are in place and in compliance with the firm’s overall resiliency strategies for effective continuity of operations in crisis events. In this capacity the successful hire will work closely with the Resilience Manager to drive strategic direction and implement business continuity plans for functions, facilities, systems, third-parties and people across the division.
• The successful hire will develop an in-depth knowledge of Global Banking & Markets business flows and Global Banking & Markets operational risk and resiliency posture. Working closely with stakeholders across Global Banking & Markets , Engineering Infrastructure, Risk Management, Corporate Services teams, the new hire will coordinate and ensure the smooth execution of business operations during events such as a pandemic, cyber-attacks, natural calamities, market disruptions, etc. In addition, the new hire will work towards creation of metrics and business intelligence to improve the robustness of the program across APAC and India regions.

Your Responsibilities:

• Crisis Management: Serve as a critical member of the APAC & India GBM Public Crisis Management team, responsible for timely user notification during crisis events, advocating for user needs, and assisting with business recovery efforts.
• Program Adoption: Drive the education, awareness, and adoption of the Operational Resilience and Risk program within the GBM division. This includes developing and delivering training modules and producing quarterly team newsletters to enhance understanding and engagement.
• BCP Certification: Oversee the completeness and annual certification of all Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for the region, ensuring alignment with business requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Assurance Testing: Manage the annual completion of all Assurance Tests, ensuring that testing activities are comprehensive and effectively validate the operational resilience of critical business processes.
• Divisional Assurance: Orchestrate divisional assurance activities, including tabletop exercises, simulations, drills, and training sessions. Drive these activities to completion, maintain thorough documentation in accordance with regulatory requirements, and identify areas for improvement.
• Regulatory Adherence: Ensure strict adherence to Operational Resilience Guidelines published by regional regulators, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) MAS Operational Resilience, Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) HKMA Supervisory Policy Manual, A-SIFMA (Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ASIC Operational Resilience, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) FSA Japan, and other relevant regulatory bodies as required.
• Project Management: Manage day-to-day tasks and contribute to projects designed to introduce or improve processes and tools that enhance the firm's risk management and recovery capabilities.
• Risk Partnership: Collaborate closely with Operational Risk, Internal Audit, and other Risk partners to ensure that regulatory requirements are consistently met and that business activities align with the firm's overall resiliency strategy.
• Business Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to business divisions on matters related to business resilience, providing appropriate guidance, conducting business simulations, and delivering training on relevant tools and risk mitigation strategies.

Skills and Experience We Are Looking For:

Basic Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience with strong analytical, interpersonal, problem solving, organizational and time management skills
• Self-motivated with an ability to work on one's own with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Level headed and composed even in difficult situations and exercises sound judgement
• Highly organized, strong attention to detail and excellent follow-up skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with an ability to summarize complicated information to people with less technical knowledge
• The ability to develop and maintain good stakeholder relationships with colleagues and clients
• Ambitions in the Data Analytics space - data warehousing, data mining, and dashboard development
• Interest and aptitude for transforming data into information usable by the business (visualization, metric development, etc.)
• Technical Qualifications (ideal not essential)
• Knowledge on tools used to manage risk metrics and measurements, Tableau, Ignite Pad, Alteryx, design dashboard, data manipulation, etc.
• Exposure to IT Resilience, Tech Risk, Cyber Security principles would be an added advantage.
• Experience in managing Business Continuity Plans, and conducting assurances testing.

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.

Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

• Healthcare & Medical Insurance
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• 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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