Compliance, FCC Data, Systems and Innovation, Associate-Dallas

Goldman Sachs • Richardson, TX

11h

About The Position

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.

FCC is seeking an individual to join its FCC Data, Systems and Innovation team to assist in implementing and operating transaction monitoring surveillance models, model tuning and building AML Analytics across the firm’s businesses. S/he will be working with cross-divisional partners, including technology, operations and business personnel through all aspects of strategic and tactical builds of a critical transaction monitoring program, including but not limited to the following:
Capturing, analyzing and documenting business requirements and functional specifications
Data sourcing, data analysis and identifying data requirements
Assist in Development and implementation of AML Analytics
Data and surveillance validation planning and execution
Project tracking and execution
Conduct investigative and Testing reviews of FCC’s controls and related partnered controls
Draft detailed investigative and Testing reports, including opinions, findings and corrective action plans
Documentation of project artifacts for Compliance testing, Model Validation, regulatory and audit purposes
The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills, the ability to collaborate with others, manage workflows and multi-task. The team member is expected to quickly gain an understanding of the firm’s global transaction banking businesses, and the rules and regulations under which the Bank operates.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of prior experience in an analytical role in Financial Crimes Compliance
• Bachelor degree in Engineering/Technology with relevant work experience
• Understanding of AML and terrorist financing trends and typologies
• Knowledge of and experience with the latest AML transaction monitoring technology
• Experience of working on AML Transaction Monitoring product implementations, such as Actimize and Mantas; preferably modern transaction monitoring systems leveraging machine learning algorithms for detection
• Experience with Data Lake, Tableau / Qliksense / Qlikview, Excel (pivots, VLookups) and/or other data analytics/visualization tools
• Ability to deal with data models and work on mapping data across platforms
• Excellent organization and project management skills – ability to execute and manage a project independently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to adapt to new changes and new challenges
• Ability to prioritize work flows and ensure deadlines are met
• Ability to work independently and manage a team
• String knowledge of databases, SQL scripts and querying large data sets

Responsibilities

• Capturing, analyzing and documenting business requirements and functional specifications
• Data sourcing, data analysis and identifying data requirements
• Assist in Development and implementation of AML Analytics
• Data and surveillance validation planning and execution
• Project tracking and execution
• Conduct investigative and Testing reviews of FCC’s controls and related partnered controls
• Draft detailed investigative and Testing reports, including opinions, findings and corrective action plans
• Documentation of project artifacts for Compliance testing, Model Validation, regulatory and audit purposes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level