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Job Snapshot
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Employee Type:
Intern -
Location:
Dallas, TX -
Experience:
At least 5 year(s) -
Date Posted:
10/11/2024
Job Description
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world. We commit people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Our people are our greatest asset – we say it often and with good reason. It is only with the determination and dedication of our people that we can serve our clients, generate long-term value for our shareholders and contribute to the broader public. We take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally. From collaborative workspaces and ergonomic services to wellbeing and resilience offerings, we offer our people the flexibility and support they need to reach their goals in and outside the office.
INTERNAL AUDIT
In Internal Audit, we ensure that Goldman Sachs maintains effective controls by assessing the firm’s compliance with laws and regulations, and advising management on developing smart control solutions. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry, its products, and operations. We’re looking for detail-oriented team players who have an interest in financial markets and want to gain insight into the firm’s operations and control processes.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
Goldman Sachs Internal Auditors demonstrate strong risk and control mindsets, analytical, exercise professional skepticism and are able to challenge and discuss effectively with management on risks and control measures. We look for individuals who enjoy learning about audit, businesses and functions, have innovative and creative mindsets to adopt analytical tools to enhance audit techniques, building relationships and are able to evolve and thrive in teamwork and in a fast-paced global environment.
YOUR IMPACT
As the third line of defense, Internal Audit’s mission is to independently assess the firm’s internal control structure, including the firm’s governance processes and controls, and risk management and capital and anti-financial crime frameworks, raise awareness of control risk and monitor the implementation of management’s control measures. In doing so, internal Audit:
Monitors management’s implementation of control measures
Goldman Sachs Internal Audit comprises individuals from diverse backgrounds including chartered accountants, developers, risk management professionals, cybersecurity professionals, and data scientists. We are organized into global teams comprising business and technology auditors to cover all the firm’s businesses including Global Banking and Markets, Asset and Wealth Management, and Platform Solutions, and functions such as cyber-security, technology risk, and engineering.
Digital Assets Audit Team:
The Internal Audit Digital Assets Team is looking for highly driven professionals with subject matter expertise in Digital Assets. The team being established will be responsible for developing Digital Assets expertise in the industry and within the Firm. The role will require working closely with other members of the broader audit team and with key teams that drive the firm’s Digital Assets activities and related supporting control functions such as Legal, Compliance, Operations and Technology.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of Digital Assets including related business activities, relevant regulations and underlying infrastructure (distributed ledger technology).
- Work closely with audit colleagues who cover traditional finance related areas and provide subject matter expertise on Digital Asset related activities.
- Assess new Digital Asset activities within the firm and actively discuss with internal and external stakeholders on potential risk, mitigating controls, and findings resulting from audit engagements.
- Perform walkthroughs with stakeholders to perform control design assessments and presenting results of work performed to management.
- Prepare commercially effective and practical audit conclusions and findings, and present to Internal Audit senior management and business stakeholders.
- Follow-up on open audit issues and their resolution.
- Contribute to the Internal Audit Digital Assets coverage strategy.
SKILLS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years experience with blockchain technology (e.g. from a developer perspective building products or applications using blockchain, reviewing or testing blockchain applications).
- Ability to identify and articulate risks and potential failure points throughout system architecture.
- Deep understanding of software development and system architecture.
- High-level understanding of databases, operating systems, and messaging.
- Proficiency in Excel and SQL.
- Ability to review code relevant to blockchain technologies (Java, C#, C++, Python, VBA macros etc.)
- Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g., Blockchain Council, Chainalysis, CISA, CISSP, CISM, CFA, FRM, etc.)
- Degree in computer science or quantitative discipline.
- Data and Log Analysis (using SQL and Splunk) and visualization (using Spotfire, Tableau, QlikView or other) would be useful but not required.
- Other plusses might include: cloud computing, web infrastructure security and design.
