Risk, Vice President-Operational Risk, Salt Lake City

The Risk division is responsible for credit, market and operational risk, model risk, independent liquidity risk, and insurance throughout the firm.

Organization: Risk Division, Operational Risk
Team / Role: Operational Resilience
Level: Vice President
Location: Salt Lake City

The Operational Risk Department at Goldman Sachs is an independent risk management function responsible for developing and implementing a standardized framework to identify, measure, and monitor operational risk across the firm.

This Vice President Operational Resilience role is for a subject matter expert dedicated to actively employ and strengthen the components of the firm's operational risk management framework. This role will be responsible to continuously identify, monitor, measure and assess the firm's global operational resilience landscape.

• Through review and analysis, identify planning and testing activities that will enhance the resilience posture of the firm
• Develop a strategic testing plan to provide assurance on resilience capabilities at the firm utilizing multiple test types while balancing resource requirements and expectations
• Manage strategic planning uplift activities to ensure they are executed on time and with the expected level of quality
• Lead the development, facilitation/execution, and evaluation of tests inclusive of tabletops and simulations
• Assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the firm's global operational resilience framework (policies, governance and minimum standards) to ensure a front-to-back approach to operational readiness and response to business disruption events
• Understand the regulatory authorities around their approach to operational resilience and integrate those expectations into the operational resilience framework
• Engage and liaise with internal stakeholder groups (HCM, CWS, OGS, Operations, Engineering, etc.) that have oversight of processes relevant to the firm's operational resilience approach which is to prevent, protect, respond and adopt/learn from disruptive events
• Be apprised of operational resilience events and data collection including reporting when necessary; perform detailed reviews of trends to identify significant risks and ensure monitoring and remediation
• Participate in New Activity review and ensure resilience risks arising from new products and/or business, migrations, etc. are properly considered

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Understanding of key flows and functions of a global Investment Bank
• Strong client / stakeholder management skills with strong interpersonal skills, both verbal and written
• Project management skills, including monitoring and reporting project performance
• Strong analytical abilities, including the use of data and visualization of data to aid strategy discussion
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment with a strong delivery focus
• Ability to work in a team environment and knowledge share with other colleagues within team
• Possess a Bachelor's or equivalent degree