Controllers-Salt Lake City-Vice President-Software Engineering

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible.  Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas.  Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients.  Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.  Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

The Controllers division is responsible for financial control and regulatory obligations of the firm. They safeguard the assets of the firm through an independent scrutiny of the financial information and ensure accurate reporting to internal and external consumers. They provide critical metrics and related analysis to the firm’s and divisions��� leadership to navigate the evolving business strategy, including incumbent and strategic initiatives.  Controllers play an important role in the changing landscape of the firm, including its new business ventures and acquisitions, and ensure that these new initiatives are in line with the regulatory expectations as well as controlled in terms of their incorporation into the firm

Finance engineers help ensure the firm meets all of its financial control and reporting obligations. Working in small and nimble teams, we build critical and complex software to calculate profit and loss (P&L), measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory filings across the globe. 

OUR Impact:

Finance Engineering is responsible for designing and implementing solutions to manage the firm’s P&L, measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory obligations. Our global agile teams (based across Americas, EMEA and Asia) develop and manage the platforms, calculation engines, and analytical tools that controllers, risk management, and deal-making teams use to project, monitor and report externally to regulators for both regular business activity and under stress scenarios.

YOUR Impact:

Our team of engineers builds solutions to the most complex problems. We develop cutting-edge software and platforms that form the core of our key business and enable transactions to move in milliseconds. We provide real-time access to critical deal information and process billions of data points each day to inform firm-wide market insights and strategies. Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field. This position provides a unique opportunity to gain subject matter expertise in both technology and finance, and to directly engage with colleagues and senior management from across the business, Risk, Finance, and Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial systems that manage the firm’s P&L, measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory obligations.
• Understand and respond to business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
• Develop high level and detailed technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans
• Build strong relationships with business partners
• Identify opportunities for cross-divisional collaboration and reuse of common solutions
• Mentor and coach junior engineers by providing technical and functional guidance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 7+ years of Engineering Industry experience 
• 5+ years of development experience with Java and other programming languages
• Knowledge of traditional (RDBMS) and modern datastores (NoSQL)
• Preferred experience with Cloud
• Experience leading projects and designing solutions for those projects
• Experience building and sustaining long-term relationships with stakeholders and colleagues
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally
• Preferred experience in financial domain
• Interest in finance 

 

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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