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Platform Solutions, Transaction Banking, Transaction Monitoring Regional Risk Manager, Associate, Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

PLATFORM SOLUTIONS

In Platform Solutions (PS), we power clients with innovative and customer-centred financial products. We bring the best qualities of a technology player and combine that with the best attributes of a large bank. PS is comprised of four main businesses, underpinned by engineering, operations, and risk management:

  • Transaction Banking, a cash management and payments platform for clients building a corporate treasury system
  • Enterprise Partnerships, consumer financial products that companies embed directly within their ecosystems to better serve their end customers
  • Merchant Point-of-Sale Lending, a platform that provides custom credit financing for home improvement merchants to offer directly to their customers
  • ETF Accelerator, a platform for clients to launch, list and manage exchange-traded funds

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TRANSACTION BANKING - GLOBAL RISK

As part of TxB's global risk team, you will help support our 1st line of defense (1 LOD) transaction monitoring strategy and program. As part of this role you will be responsible for monitoring our activity and identify patterns that are outside our risk appetite. You will work with Client Risk, Sales, Product and 2 LOD to address any flags and ensure the ongoing optimization of our monitoring capability. You will also provide insights as part of ongoing client reviews.

In addition, you will provide support to the regional risk manager across all regional risks, including but not limited to operational, regulatory and credit risk.

The role will report to the EMEA Risk Manager (VP) and to the Global Transaction Monitoring Manager (VP).

We are looking for someone with lots of energy, who has excellent communication skills, enjoys challenges, and can operate in a highly fluid, rapidly changing environment. If that's you, we would like to hear from you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support the design, build and operationalization of the 1LOD (first line) transaction monitoring capability
  • Monitor client activity to ensure they are in line with our risk appetite
  • Investigate broad transactional datasets and identify potential red flags and/or control violations
  • Visualize complex datasets and analyses and communicate to a wide variety of audiences, including leadership
  • Contribute to client reviews, working closely with 1LOD and 2LOD financial crime and other stakeholders
  • Collaborate with product and engineering to improve quality of available data
  • Collaborate with 1LOD, Product and Sales to influence and drive changes in client activity patterns.
  • Support regional Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)
  • Support adherence to local regulatory /payment scheme obligations
  • Support 1LOD management of intraday credit line
  • Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
  • Establish trusted partnerships with peers, functional leads, and executive level stakeholders
  • Update and maintain documentation for team processes and best practices

BASIC EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years of relevant professional experience in AML, transaction monitoring, or similar financial crimes compliance role, with focus on transaction monitoring of client activity
  • Must be independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous, and often multi-directional work environment
  • Very strong analytical skills, with ability to interrogate transactional data for unusual patterns and provide insights that improve the risk outlook of a function
  • Ability to build policies/frameworks and procedures
  • Strong program and project management skills
  • Team oriented; strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with a proven record of leading multifunctional teams and building partnerships with key stakeholders
  • Working knowledge of banking products, corresponding banking relationships, transaction analysis
  • Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated
  • Excellent organizational, time management and planning skills
  • Fluent in English

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

  • Familiar with EU payment regulations
  • Prior Transaction Banking and payments risk experience
  • Use of SQL to interrogate complex dataset
  • Prior experience in Fraud function
  • Prior Transaction Banking/Commercial Banking or Financial Crimes experience

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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Client-provided location(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job ID: goldman-119840
Employment Type: Other

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