Our business principle #2 states: “We are dedicated to complying fully with the letter and spirit of the laws, rules and ethical principles that govern us. Our continued success depends upon unswerving adherence to this standard.”

It is the role of Goldman Sachs’ Global Compliance Division to help ensure that every employee and client of the firm upholds this principle. Accordingly, the Division is viewed as an integral part of the firm, enabling it to conduct business confidently in complex global markets.

Part of the Global Compliance Division, the firm’s Regulatory Practice Group (“RPG”) is a dynamic, global team of more than 50 professionals charged with interfacing with regulators on regulatory examinations and inquiries received in jurisdictions worldwide. The team has members in Bengaluru, Dallas, Hong Kong, London, New York, Sydney and Tokyo.

We are looking for a talented individual to join RPG as an Associate in the firm’s Dallas office, focusing on regulatory exams and inquiries relating to Goldman Sachs’ various U.S. businesses. Specifically, the Associate will help our RPG team in its management of interactions, namely, examinations, audits, and inquiries, with non-prudential regulators such as the CFTC, NFA, and Futures & Commodities Industry SRO’s such as CME and ICE. These interactions typically relate to any number of financial industry regulatory topics, including recent market developments, potential market abuse and/or manipulation, regulatory reporting requirements, new areas of firm business, risk management practices, new regulatory requirements, recordkeeping, and supervisory policies and procedures, among other topics.

Responsibilities

The RPG team for the Americas coordinates, on behalf of Goldman Sachs, responses to requests for information and cyclical exams received and/or initiated by non-prudential U.S. financial industry regulators. The team also periodically responds to requests for information from foreign regulators. The majority of requests and/or exams handled by RPG seek to test and/or confirm Goldman Sachs’ compliance with the laws and regulations applicable to its many businesses.

As the liaison between the firm and its regulators on matters of regulatory compliance, RPG team members work closely with business, engineering, operations, risk, compliance and legal teams throughout the firm. Working with and advising these stakeholders, RPG is responsible for helping ensure that the firm manages, and responds to, regulatory inquiries, examinations and other requests for information in a manner that meets our regulators’ requirements and expectations. Accuracy, timeliness, organization and efficiency are essential.

An Associate on the RPG team provides critical support to fellow RPG team members in their management of the firm’s regulatory interactions. This entails assisting more senior team members as they: (i) research applicable rules and interpretive guidance, (ii) form and coordinate working groups of relevant firm personnel, (iii) interface with regulators regarding information requests and the firm’s responses, (iv) conduct informational interviews and gather responsive documentation, (v) prepare written responses to information requests, (vi) coordinate in-person meetings with regulators, (vii) advise internal stakeholders on regulators’ expectations and prior firm interactions, (viii) manage a docket of multiple regulatory matters (both inquiries and exams), (ix) monitor the firm’s progress in completing undertakings made to regulators during the course of inquiries and exams, (x) keep detailed records of regulatory correspondence, and (xi) advise firm stakeholders on potential enhancements to firm processes and controls identified during the course of regulatory interactions.

Because providing operational support to the RPG team is a key component of Associates’ responsibility, interested candidates should expect that a significant portion of their time will be time will be spent arranging meetings, keeping meeting notes, preparing documentation for production to regulators, tracking information requests received from regulators and their status, and maintaining detailed records of the firm’s regulatory interactions using relevant firm systems.

RPG team members attach importance to in-person learning and connectivity, and accordingly, this is an in-office role at the firm’s Dallas office, not a remote position.

An Associate or Analyst in RPG must have the ability to:

• Leverage strong communication and relationship-building skills;
• Demonstrate resiliency and creativity when under pressure and when managing time-sensitive demands from competing stakeholders;
• Grasp and keep abreast of relevant policies and procedures;
• Conduct skilled research and data gathering;
• Effectively and efficiently conduct business by video, phone and in-person meetings with both internal and external stakeholders;
• Organize and maintain large quantities of data and documentation in a dynamic environment;
• Be unfailingly detail-oriented, so as to consistently produce accurate work product;
• 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);
• Meet tight deadlines and comfortably operate in the face of time constraints;
• Persistently follow-up with colleagues to ensure that appropriate information is obtained and timely recorded.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree;
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Business-level fluency in English, both orally and in writing;
• Excellent time management, analytical and communication skills;
• Integrity, motivation, intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm;
• Familiarity with financial industry products and markets, as well as corresponding rules and regulations.
• Experience with the management of major exams with a specific preference towards candidates with experience related to the DSRO and Audit Trail examinations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in law, business, or other relevant program;
• Outstanding graduate school and undergraduate credentials;
• At least three years of relevant post-undergraduate work experience, preferably, with a relevant regulatory agency, or, if holding a Masters, PhD, MBA, JD or equivalent, one to two years of relevant experience;