AWM, Marcus, Controls Design, Dallas, Associate

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 direct-to-consumer business provides digital solutions that help customers save and invest. 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

• Proactively identify potential business risks, process deficiencies, and potential gaps/ weaknesses in risk management standards.
• Lead process deep dives by reviewing process documentation (process maps, procedures, etc.) to document existing controls and identify control gaps (automation, detective reporting, etc.), specifically related to ensuring Consumer regulatory requirements are sufficiently covered.
• Actively participate in cross functional working groups to enhance enterprise risk management frameworks.
• Manage control implementation by working with stakeholders to socialize control recommendations and then track implementation of the controls.
• Build out presentations to clearly communicate risks and controls gaps to executives across business areas.
• Lead cross-functional project management efforts across the internal working team.
• Work closely with compliance to map regulatory requirements to specific processes and controls.
• Head continuous control framework improvements and the evolution to meet changing requirements to support maximum visibility to the executive audience.
• Maintain effective communication with other teams to determine root cause of errors and shepherd the implementation of control specific corrective actions related to non-compliance with policies and procedures.
• Contribute to executive reporting and other data-driven deliverables, with a focus on providing appropriate content, context, and structure in a precise and timely manner.
• Be a critical thinker: Thoughtful, self-aware, and use available evidence to make decisions.
• Work effectively with teammates and win credibility quickly.

• Bachelor's degree
• 2-3 years related work experience in an Operational Risk, Business Controls, Process Improvement role or transferable knowledge.
• Critical thinking, project management, and problem-solving skills
• Able to provide effective challenge and provide alternative perspective to group consensus.
• Genuine excitement and passion for leading root cause analysis, troubleshooting process failures, and implementing fixes to increase control framework effectiveness.
• Experience building reports and presentations.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft tool suite including SharePoint, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building, and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• High level of creativity, perseverance, and openness to change.
• Interest and ability to self-serve, investigate, and get the information required to make quick and effective decisions.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of an initiative while still following proper chain of command, and effectively working in a team environment.
• Experience working on Audits
• Ability to learn quickly and manage tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.

• 2-3 years Consumer Banking (Deposits), specifically in operational risk, compliance, or process improvement
• 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.
• Heavy use of pivot tables, vlookup, formulas, charts, conditional formatting, and other advanced Excel functions