Compliance, Financial Crimes Control, Associate / Vice President, Salt Lake City

The Goldman Sachs Group
United States, Utah, Salt Lake City
May 05, 2025
Global Compliance Our division prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm's culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these through the firm's enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firm's second line of defense, Compliance assesses the firm's compliance, regulatory and reputational risk; monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and leads the firm's responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries. You'll be part of a team with members from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, such as law, accounting, sales, and trading. We look for those who possess sound judgment, curiosity, and are able to adapt to a changing regulatory landscape. The Role Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) coordinates Goldman Sachs' enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (BSA/AML), sanctions, anti-bribery compliance, and forensics surveillance efforts. The FCC team, which is comprised of professionals with extensive law enforcement, regulatory, legal, compliance, forensic consulting, operations, and business experience, administers an array of surveillances, due diligence and other control processes designed to identify potential money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, securities fraud, and other violations of the law. OPPORTUNITY FCC's Strategic Program Management (SPM) team is responsible for the oversight and governance of strategic initiatives within the Financial Crime Compliance program. Strategic initiatives are defined as large-scale and /or multi-disciplinary initiatives that may span across multiple teams within or external to FCC, the aim of which is to improve the FCC organization's performance and/or substantive financial crime risk coverage across the Firm. In this role you will manage specific workstreams/projects within the FCC Annual Plan program Responsibilities in this role may include, but are not limited to: Work with workstream leads to define project scope, deliverables, and timelines Track project progress and report status using Smartsheet Coordinate with cross-functional teams and appropriate stakeholders Execute change management and closure process and documentation Manage stakeholder engagement and readiness assessments Develop, gather and format data using various internal tools Conduct training and track adoption metrics Contribute to management reporting Assist Program Manager(s) with other initiatives within FCC as needed Preferred Qualifications 4+ years of experience Prior project management experience Prior compliance or regulatory experience an advantage Working knowledge of BSA/AML, counter-terrorism, anti-bribery and/or anti-fraud experience in the banking industry or at a regulator an advantage MS Excel and PowerPoint skills (proficient in data manipulation and presentation) Strong communicator, comfortable in presenting and explaining analysis Knowledge/experience with financial products and services Team player with great attitude and work ethic Ability to multi-task on several different assignments/projects Interest in working on a global team dealing with global businesses Education: Bachelor's degree required 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 The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved. 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.