Job Description

Wealth Management

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.

Marcus by Goldman Sachs

The firm’s direct-to-consumer business, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, combines the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up with more than 150 years of experience. Today, we serve millions of customers across multiple products, leveraging innovative design, data, engineering and other core capabilities to provide customers with powerful tools and products that are grounded in value, transparency and simplicity.

YOUR IMPACT

We are looking for an Analyst to serve as a member of the Marcus US Deposits Monitoring & Testing function in Richardson (Texas) or Draper (Utah). The role will execute monitoring and testing across processes and identify potential risks and control weaknesses to contribute directly to the firm’s success by ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting client assets, and managing risk.

OUR IMPACT

Within Asset & Wealth Management, we seek to provide innovative investment solutions to help our clients meet their financial goals. We work with specialists and groups from around the firm to help individuals and institutions across various industries navigate changing markets and to provide them with a diverse offering of product solutions. 

As part of AWM, Marcus US Deposits is the Consumer deposits business, offering savings accounts and certificates of deposits to our customers to manage their financial goals. Our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients, and leading-edge technology, data and design. We value self-starters with an entrepreneurial spirit, providing the support and resources to ensure your success.

Marcus US Deposits Business Controls is a first-line risk and controls management function which ensures process and controls design, controls assessment, issues management, controls monitoring and testing, risk reporting and governance.

Our primary objective is to elevate our controls environment to enable growth and scalability of the business in a well-managed way.

The Monitoring & Testing function will implement a controls evaluation framework to continuously monitor the efficacy of our processes, systems, and controls, and ensure their performance and compliance through robust testing methods. It is a critical function to mitigate risk within Marcus US Deposits and Goldman Sachs as a whole. This function collaborates strongly with other functions in Business Controls to ensure proactive risk assessment, control design and enhancement. Marcus US Deposits Monitoring & Testing team is looking for people with strong analytical and quantitative backgrounds and a strong interest in financial services. We seek bright and dynamic individuals with a quantitative orientation, basic financial acumen, and fluency with risk and controls.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Design and execute controls testing for key controls and regulatory requirements
• Aggregate testing outcomes to identify key themes and control enhancement opportunities
• Engage with cross-functional stakeholders to review and validate results
• Develop an in-depth knowledge of the risk and controls across Marcus US Deposits
• Advise, challenge & inform the businesses on recommended ways to mitigate risk; reviews actions items to ensure that risk is being sufficiently addressed
• Identify ways to share risk best practice across teams and functions, and with other business lines where like processes exist/there is exposure to similar risk

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Business, Finance, or a related field
• 3+ years related work experience
• Understanding of Consumer banking processes in a risk management context are required
• Exposure to qualitative and quantitative controls and data testing across financial products.
• Proactive with strong analytical orientation, lateral thinking, organizational, influencing skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to navigate data sets, develop metrics and perform analysis.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with different levels of stakeholders
• Innovative, including a keen eye for identifying areas of control enhancements and automation which have practical value. Good influencing skills to challenging the status quo and continuously enhance the control environment
• Ability to perform data analytics using metrics to identify trends and themes
• Sound time management skills to be able to effectively prioritize and multi-task.
• A mentor / coach to the juniors in the team
• Drive and motivation to improve personal performance, broaden knowledge, work intensely towards extremely challenging goals, and persist in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills to collaborate as a global team and build strong relationship with key stakeholders across Divisions
• Thinks ahead, anticipates questions, plans for contingencies, finds alternative solutions and identifies clear objectives.  Sees the big picture and effectively analyzes complex issues 
• Track record of delivering and enhancing measurable, impactful business outcomes and product
• CFA, FRM or equivalent professional certifications preferred
• Experience in Consumer compliance, operational risk or internal audit a plus

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 1-3 years banking experience, specifically in risk, compliance, or corporate governance
• Strong Risk Assessment Framework knowledge and experience performing risk assessments covering key risks and controls
• Working knowledge of financial, operational, compliance, and reputation risks
• Experience aggregating and analyzing various types of risks and data with output to dashboards and/or formal written assessments

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

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