Compliance, Financial Crime Investigations, Analyst, Singapore

Global Compliance

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 conducts enterprise-wide risk management, operates as an independent control function and part of the firm’s second line of defense, and assesses regulatory and reputational risk, monitors compliance with laws and regulations, designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training, conducts independent testing, investigates, surveils and monitors for risks and breaches, and leads responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries. We welcome team members from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, and value sound judgment, curiosity, and adaptability to a changing regulatory landscape.

Role Responsibilities

Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) leads the firm’s enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering (AML), anti-bribery, and government sanctions programs. This includes enhanced due diligence, sanctions screening, surveillance and investigations to identify potential terrorist financing, money laundering, bribery, market abuse, or other suspicious activity.

FCC’s Asia-Pacific (APAC) team, based in Singapore, seeks an experienced professional to work in the FCC Suspicious Activity Monitoring & Reporting (SAMR) team. Core responsibilities include carrying out investigations of escalations, including matters involving insider trading, market manipulation, fraud, and suspicious asset movement, which may or may not require reporting to regulators.

Additional responsibilities

• Management information reporting
• Enhancing policies and procedures
• Training
• Working with internal audit during reviews

Candidate Responsibilities

• Utilize a variety of internal and external systems and databases to complete investigations
• Liaise with other departments as needed to ensure thorough investigations
• Present a clear summary and proposed conclusions to management, including proposals to mitigate risk or monitor it
• Report suspicious activities to regulators

Skills and Experience

• Clear and practical understanding of regulation relating to market abuse
• Solid knowledge of anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption legislation and regulation
• Good knowledge of financial markets and products, preferably equities and equity derivatives; strong understanding of correlations between asset classes
• Previous investigations background is a must
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to adapt writing style to Goldman Sachs procedures
• Strong Excel skills
• Strong analytical and risk assessment skills
• Ability to adapt to new changes and new challenges
• Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
• Ability to build strong relationships with colleagues
• Ability to work independently and in a team
• Proactive, self-motivated, detail-oriented and well-organized

About Goldman Sachs

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