Compliance, Traceability and Strategy - Senior Compliance Officer, Vice President

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The Core Compliance Team is at the forefront of delivering robust compliance risk management in adherence with regulator expectations. We are looking for a team member who can help drive our compliance risk management and traceability program forward, by collaborating with first and second line  teams, including engineering, Operational Risk, business and compliance globally.  The successful  candidate should demonstrate strategic thinking, comfort interacting with senior audiences, detailed understanding of regulatory compliance program requirements and opportunities in regtech and an ability to lead large scale transformation. 

We are looking for someone who is equal parts visionary and executor. The role requires problem solving, collaboration and innovation. Examples of duties include:

• Lead the design of a strategic and sustainable reg traceability program
  • Incumbent must be comfortable influencing all levels of staff to drive change 
• Align and continuously evolve the strategic make up of core compliance routines
  • Identify and implement strategic technology solutions including AI and other regtech solutions
• Embed compliance into the enterprise risk management framework
  • Prepare reporting and analysis 
  • Encourage data and systems integration
  • Enhance operating models and processes 
• Manage change with organization and transparency
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across all divisions and, at times with external stakeholders 
• Partner with and direct vendors to provide content in appropriate ways that meet GS expectations 
• Manage requests and exams from outside regulators and internal audit

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• 10+ years of experience in Financial Services, with risk, legal, compliance and/or project management experience 
• Bachelor’s Degree 
• Professional experience in handling various learning and communication objectives
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, with an ability to learn new tools quickly
• Strong understanding of Compliance program mandates and Operational Risk Frameworks Exceptional analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and project management skills with a proven track record of execution against deadlines
• Leverage strong communication and relationship-building skills in frequent interaction with other areas of the firm, in particular, senior stakeholders 
• Demonstrate resiliency and creativity when under pressure and when managing time-sensitive demands from competing stakeholders
• Experience in delivering high quality work products, reflecting attention to detail 
• Work independently and exercise strong judgment when executing an assigned task 
• Multi-task and have the ability to manage and advance multiple projects simultaneously.
• Identify and effectively escalate potential issues to appropriate person(s)
   

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