Asset & Wealth Management, Operational Risk, Issues Management, Associate - Dallas
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Job summary
Goldman Sachs is seeking an Associate in Asset & Wealth Management, Operational Risk, Issues Management, based in Richardson, TX. The role focuses on issues management, risk reporting, and control assessments to protect client assets and ensure regulatory compliance within Marcus US Deposits and Private Bank.
You will analyze risk events, drive remediation, and prepare dashboards and governance materials for senior leadership, partnering with audit and risk teams across the firm.
Qualifications
- Evaluate control issues to ensure conformance to Consumer and Firm requirements
- Analyze issue root-cause and validate remediation actions
- Drive resolution of issues in conformance to Consumer and Firm requirements
- Ensure data quality of issue documentation
- Aggregate issues to identify key themes and control enhancement opportunities
- Develop and report on Key Risk Indicators/ Key Control Indicators
- Engage with audit and risk partners to monitor findings
- Assess vendor risks and issues for themes, and monitor closure
- Perform reviews of operational risk events and assess themes
- Monitor operational risk events for timely and accurate reporting
- Advise, challenge & inform the businesses on risk mitigation actions
- Lead senior management presentations on risk and control metrics and analysis
- Coordinate and facilitate governance routines with key executive stakeholders
- Identify ways to share risk best practice across teams and functions
Responsibilities
- Evaluate control issues to ensure conformance to Consumer and Firm requirements
- Analyze issue root-cause and validate remediation actions
- Drive resolution of issues in conformance to Consumer and Firm requirements
- Ensure data quality of issue documentation
- Aggregate issues to identify key themes and control enhancement opportunities
- Develop and report on Key Risk Indicators/ Key Control Indicators
- Engage with audit and risk partners to monitor findings
- Assess vendor risks and issues for themes, and monitor closure
- Perform reviews of operational risk events and assess themes
- Monitor operational risk events for timely and accurate reporting
- Advise, challenge & inform the businesses on risk mitigation actions
- Lead senior management presentations on risk and control metrics and analysis
- Coordinate and facilitate governance routines with key executive stakeholders
- Identify ways to share risk best practice across teams and functions
Skills
Education
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Job description
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, Global Markets 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, Bangalore, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.
AWM Description
Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, we provide clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the firm’s primary investment area, we provide investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals, for which we oversee more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. We are:
- Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services
- Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios
- Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions
- Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goals
YOUR IMPACT
We are looking for an Associate to serve as a member of the AWM Risk Management function supporting Marcus US Deposits and Private Bank in Richardson (Texas). The role will execute key control deliverables related to issues management, risk reporting and control assessments, to ensure regulatory compliance, protecting client assets, and managing risk.
OUR IMPACT
Within Asset & Wealth Management, we seek to provide innovative investment solutions to help our clients meet their financial goals. We work with specialists and groups from around the firm to help individuals and institutions across various industries navigate changing markets and to provide them with a diverse offering of product solutions.
As part of AWM, Marcus US Deposits is the Consumer deposits business, offering savings accounts and certificates of deposits to our customers to manage their financial goals. Our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients, and leading-edge technology, data and design. We value self-starters with an entrepreneurial spirit, providing the support and resources to ensure your success. Private Bank offers competitive cash management and borrowing solutions strategically integrated with our clients’ wealth management goals.
AWM Risk Management is a first-line risk and controls management function which ensures process and controls design, controls assessment, issues management, control monitoring and testing, risk reporting and governance.
Our primary objective is to elevate our controls environment to enable growth and scalability of the business in a well-managed way. It is a critical function to mitigate risk within Marcus US Deposits and Private Bank, and Goldman Sachs as a whole. This function collaborates strongly with other functions in AWM Risk Management to ensure proactive risk assessment, control design and enhancement. We are looking for people with strong analytical and quantitative backgrounds and a strong interest in financial services. We seek bright and dynamic individuals with a quantitative orientation, basic financial acumen, and fluency with risk and controls.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
- Evaluate control issues to ensure conformance to Consumer and Firm requirements
- Analyze issue root-cause and validate remediation actions
- Drive resolution of issues in conformance to Consumer and Firm requirements
- Ensure data quality of issue documentation
- Aggregate issues to identify key themes and control enhancement opportunities
- Develop and report on Key Risk Indicators/ Key Control Indicators
- Engage with audit and risk partners to monitor findings
- Assess vendor risks and issues for themes, and monitor closure
- Perform reviews of operational risk events and assess themes
- Monitor operational risk events for timely and accurate reporting
- Advise, challenge & inform the businesses on risk mitigation actions
- Lead senior management presentations on risk and control metrics and analysis
- Coordinate and facilitate governance routines with key executive stakeholders.
- Identify ways to share risk best practice across teams and functions, and with other business lines where like processes exist/there is exposure to similar risk
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Business, Finance, or a related field
- 5+ years related work experience
- Understanding of Consumer banking processes in a risk management context are required
- Exposure to qualitative and quantitative controls across financial products.
- Strong analytical orientation, lateral thinking, organizational, influencing skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to perform data analytics using metrics to identify trends and themes
- Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with different levels of stakeholders
- Innovative, including a keen eye for identifying areas of control enhancements
- Good influencing skills to challenge the status quo and enhance the control environment
- Sound time management skills to be able to effectively prioritize and multi-task.
- A mentor / coach to the juniors in the team
- Good interpersonal and teamwork skills to develop strong stakeholder relationships
- The ability to present with impact and build consensus across senior stakeholder groups
- Track record of delivering and enhancing measurable, impactful business outcomes
- CFA, FRM or equivalent professional certifications preferred
- 3-5 years banking experience, specifically in operational risk, compliance, internal audit or corporate governance
- Strong knowledge of Risk Assessment Framework and experience performing control assessments
- Working knowledge of financial, operational, compliance, and reputation risks
- Experience aggregating and analyzing various types of risks and data with output to dashboards and/or formal written assessments
- Experience with Tableau or other reporting/ data analytics tools
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.
- Job Identification 178579
- Job Category Associate
- Posting Date 08/04/2026, 07:06 PM
- Locations Richardson, TX, United States
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
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.
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.
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.
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).
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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