Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Aml Analyst/Associate - Frankfurt

OUR IMPACT

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 compliancewith 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.

Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) has primary responsibility for the execution of the firm's enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering (AML), anti-bribery, and government sanctions compliance programs and, among other things, performs enhanced due diligence and government sanctions screening, as well as surveillance and investigations designed to identify potential terrorist financing, money laundering, bribery, market abuse, or other suspicious activity.
YOUR IMPACT
FCC's team covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), which is based in London and Warsaw, is seeking a professional with relevant skills and experience to work in the FCC EMEA investigations team in London. The candidate will carry out complex investigations to review all escalations received which may or may not require a report to a regulator/s. The various escalation sources include, however are not limited to, the business, regulatory enquiries, trade and transaction surveillance and ad-hoc requests.
The individual will be expected to be able to identify and fully document in accordance with Goldman Sachs' written policies and procedures all forms of market abuse (insider trading and market manipulation), suspicious asset movements, fraud and employee matters.
Additional responsibilities may include management information reporting, enhancing policies and procedures, perform certain regulatory filings, including STORs and SARs with regulators, training and working with internal audit when they conduct their reviews.
To achieve this, the relevant candidate will be required to:

• utilize a variety of internal and external systems and databases in order to complete investigations;
  
• liaise with all other departments, when needed and if it is appropriate, in order to ensure a thorough investigation is completed;
  
• present a summary and proposed conclusion to management in a timely and clear manner, including proposals to implement appropriate steps to monitor if necessary;
  and
• report suspicious activities to regulators.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Fluent German speaking
• 1+ year experience in financial services, preferably with either a trading, compliance, trade surveillance, or regulatory background.
• knowledge of market abuse regulation, money laundering typologies, securities trading, anti-bribery and corruption legislation and regulation.
• Good knowledge of financial markets and products, preferably fixed income products.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Proactive, self-motivated, assertive and well organized.
• Takes ownership of tasks, progresses them independently, and escalates to senior stakeholders when required.
• Strong analytical, technical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to exercise sound and balanced judgment.
• Ability to learn and navigate technical firm systems used for reviews, and educate other team members on functionality.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work to tight deadlines, balancing short-term and long-term queries and projects.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders of various seniority and across different roles.
• Ability to work independently and yet remain a strong team player.
• Languages an advantage
• Ability to enrich and thrive in an international, diverse and inclusive environment.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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