Associate

About the Role

Goldman Sachs Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted area that partners with all parts of the firm to provide banking, securities, and asset management services to clients worldwide. Regulatory Operations is a global team that ensures the firm's compliance with a wide range of non-financial regulatory reporting obligations. The team partners with groups across the firm and industry to accurately represent firm and client order, execution, and position information to regulators across a wide range of traded financial products and businesses. The team prides itself on operational design and delivery of high-quality controls to manage regulatory risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform effective risk management in reporting time-sensitive regulatory reporting accurately, completely, and timely.
• Develop expert knowledge pertaining to regulatory requirements, processes, and systems for a number of non-financial regulatory reporting in North America regimes.
• Perform daily analysis on data and pursue problem resolution while improving processes.
• Investigate, remediate, and provide supervisory guidance on issues with these reports and develop control improvements.
• Work on controls of data integrity and completeness through collaboration with Engineering and Operations teams.
• Provide oversight of the impact assessments done on these reports for new markets, new products, business reorganizations, system changes, and new/changed regulations.
• Drive improvement of processes, procedures, and outputs through automation and the adoption of AI-led data analytics to enhance accuracy, scalability, and control effectiveness.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives from idea creation to implementation, working with various Technology and team stakeholders.
• Work with Legal, Compliance, Technology, other Operations groups, and various Business units on change programs and issue resolution.
• Act as a risk manager for the firm through ongoing assessment and awareness of the regulatory environment and the firm’s adherence to its reporting obligations.
• Be flexible to contribute to other activities within the group where necessary, e.g., daily report production.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Preferred 2-3 years work experience in the Financial or Business Industry.
• Professional experience may have included past responsibility for audit/analysis, compliance, business support, daily processing, project management, risk management, and implementation of strategic operational plans.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office and Data analytics tools (e.g., Alteryx) with experience leveraging AI solutions (e.g., Copilot).
• Analytical thinker with the ability to generate innovative ideas and translate strategy to execution.
• Problem-solving and documentation skills with an ability to understand complex workflows.
• Preferred experience with securities trading flows, regulatory obligations, and project/JIRA management.
• Candidate must be proactive, enthusiastic, and team-oriented.
• Accuracy, analytical ability, and attention to detail.
• Effective time management and risk awareness.
• Ability to think strategically and contribute to department and division-wide initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to organize and prioritize workload and drive results.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new changes and new challenges.
• Control or project management capabilities in design, testing, and execution.
• Ideally would have successfully worked with financial products/functions with experience including data analysis, Regulatory Reporting, trading flows, and compliance.
• Experience with regulatory obligations around transaction reporting is desired.
• Ability to efficiently support daily time-sensitive functions around non-financial regulatory reports such as CFTC P45, P43, Electronic Blue Sheet, or Consolidated Audit Trail.