Global Banking & Markets-Regulatory Uplift-Analyst-Bengaluru Bengaluru · India · Analyst

Goldman Sachs; Hinoba-an; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Regulatory Uplift professional to join the PDO group, focusing on data extraction from client trading documentation and enhancing risk management processes across trading relationships.

You will partner with Prime and Franchise GMB teams, review core contractual terms, and help translate terms into internal risk and systems. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or JD. Prior experience in Legal/Trading Documentation or attorney/paralegal experience is preferred.
• Working knowledge of derivatives and financial products and familiarity with trading documentation (ISDA/CSA/GMRA/GMSLA) desired.
• Proven excellent organizational and prioritization skills with attention to detail, even under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Data Review and Extraction: Elevate risk management by analyzing trading documentation and extracting key data per GS risk governance.
• Process: Develop and enhance processes to improve risk management and governance.
• Key Results: Track, record, and report data extraction results for clients; provide insights to senior management.
• Query Management/Knowledge Sharing:Interact with stakeholders across regions; coordinate with negotiators and leadership; support a global training program and KPIs.
• Policy: Identify new themes and updates to playbooks for second line of defense approval.
• Tech Uplift: Collaborate with Engineering to integrate margin/credit terms into internal systems.
• Risk Optimization: Align with Risk Division to adapt to regulatory changes and improve rules.

Skills

Data extraction

Risk analysis

Documentation review

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or JD

Tools

MS Office

Databases

Job description

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 PD professionals the flexibility and support they need to reach their goals in and outside the office.

YOUR IMPACT

You will be an integral part of a global team of trading documentation professionals, focused on the build out of our first line of defense Policy, Documentation & Outreach Group (“PDO”) Regulatory Uplift function, partnering with trading documentation professionals across Prime and Franchise Global Banking and Markets Division business areas and related trading agreements. In this role, amongst other responsibilities, you will play a crucial part in enhancing our organization’s capacity to trade in financial products in a manner that optimizes risk management, playing a pivotal role in working to review client trading documentation from a risk angle, ensuring systematic data capture, and flagging any anomalies. As a Firm, as part of our client onboarding process, we risk manage through agreeing the requisite core contractual margin and credit terms that govern our trading relationships with our counterparties under various trading agreements, across all businesses. We gain further benefit of this analysis if we translate these efforts in to ensuring our internal systems accurately reflect these terms prior to the initiation of trading with new and existing counterparties. PDO culture encourages individuals to bring purpose and authenticity to the team environment, where we role model behaviors and take responsibility for demonstrating our shared values. The candidate will be a self-motivated, results-driven, and proactive team player who takes ownership for their work. This is a growing team that encourages an entrepreneurial, innovative, and analytical approach to providing client solutions.

OUR IMPACT

The team, as a first line of defense, is responsible for providing outstanding service by ensuring data captures are correct and risks identified in order for stakeholder groups to properly risk manage client relationships and trading activity to protect the Firm.

JOB SUMMARY & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Data Review and Extraction: Elevate our risk management for new and/or existing client relationships by ensuring systematic analysis of their trading documentation and extracting key data points in line with GS risk governance framework.
• Process: Develop and enhance processes that will optimize risk management and decision making through providing greater transparency to ensure appropriate governance and identification of counterparty risk initially and throughout the relationship.
• Key Results: Tracking, recording and reporting data extraction results for new and/or existing clients and other efficiencies to senior management. Provide strategic insights and drive informed decision making.
• Query Management/Knowledge Sharing: As a member of the Regulatory Uplift team, you will interact extensively with a range of stakeholders across business areas, both regionally and functionally. You will also coordinate and work with our core group of negotiators and leadership team, playing a pivotal role in driving change. This role involves keeping senior management appraised of the implementation of a global training programmed, KPIs and managing queries from different parts of the Firm.
• Policy: Identify new themes and recommend updates to playbooks for second line of defense Risk Division approval.
• Tech Uplift: Work with our internal Engineering team on developing platforms to seamlessly integrate core contractual margin and credit terms from our documentation into risk and other internal systems.
• Risk Optimization: Working closely with GS Risk Division and PDO negotiators to stay informed about industry best practices, regulatory and legal changes affecting core contractual margin and credit terms and partnering with this group to evaluate and enhance existing rules in response.

PREFFERED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or JD. Prior experience in Legal/Trading Documentation role (including within a Credit, Risk or Treasury function) or attorney/paralegal experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of derivatives and financial products and familiarity with trading documentation (such as ISDA/CSA/GMRA/GMSLA, etc.) desired.
• Proven excellent organizational and prioritization skills and attention to detail, especially under pressure.
• Ability to ensure consistency across documentation and know when to upscale issues.
• Strong commercial acumen with a keen interest in derivative, repo, securities lending markets and products and/or prime brokerage products and services.
• Proficient in IT (incl. Microsoft Office) and able to adapt to various databases/systems.
• Sound analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal and communication skills, ability to bring clarity to previously undefined problems, experience explaining technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and presenting data-insights to senior audiences.
• Flexibility and willingness to learn new skills and develop full job ownership.
• Enthusiasm and interest in development of documentation skills and using such skills for the completion of negotiation process.
• Ability to supervise, motivate and provide guidance to junior team members (Associate and above).

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.

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