Internal Audit, Regional Audit, Analyst, Singapore

Internal Audit – Regional Audit Analyst (Singapore)

In Internal Audit, we ensure that Goldman Sachs maintains effective controls by assessing the reliability of financial reports, monitoring the firm’s compliance with laws and regulations, and advising management on developing control solutions. Our group has unique insight into the financial industry, including its products, operations, and control processes. We are looking for detail-oriented team players with an interest in financial markets and a desire to understand the firm’s operations and control environment.

Internal Audit Mission

As the third line of defense, Internal Audit’s (IA) mission is to independently assess the firm’s overall control environment, including governance processes and controls, as well as risk management and capital and anti-financial crime frameworks. In doing so, IA:

• Communicates and reports on the effectiveness of the firm’s governance, risk management, and controls that mitigate current and evolving risk
• Raises awareness of control risk
• Assesses the firm’s control culture and conduct risks
• Monitors management’s implementation of control measures

Responsibilities and Qualifications

General Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of business areas, their products, and supporting functions
• Participate in walkthroughs with management and execute testing to ensure audit fieldwork focuses on the right areas and documentation meets high-quality standards
• Identify risks, assess mitigating controls, and make recommendations to improve the control environment
• Assist in every step of an audit, including scoping, planning, fieldwork, and reporting
• Work with experienced team members to prepare commercially effective audit conclusions and findings, and present to IA senior management and business clients
• Follow up on open audit issues and their resolution
• Assist the audit team’s continuous monitoring efforts to cover market and regulatory events, business and technology updates, and completed audit/reviews
• Participate in department-wide initiatives aimed at continually improving IA’s processes and supporting infrastructure

Specific Skills and Experience

• Team-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, relationship, and project management skills
• Additional Asian language (Japanese or Korean or Mandarin) will be an asset. The successful candidate will be required to review financial documents, local regulatory filings, and system logs written in Japanese, Korean, or Mandarin, as well as conduct audit walkthroughs and interviews with regional stakeholders in North Asian offices who communicate primarily in these languages
• Solid analytical skills
• Understanding of financial concepts and/or key securities and/or banking regulations in Singapore and/or other APAC regions
• Highly motivated with the ability to multi-task and remain organized in a fast-paced environment
• At least 1 year of experience in a public accounting, consulting, internal audit, and/or regulatory agency examiner role within the financial services industry or a related control function
• University degree in Finance, Accounting, or a quantitative discipline; ideally a graduate degree in a related subject
• Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g., CPA, CFA, CIA, CFE)

About Goldman Sachs

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital, and ideas to help our clients, shareholders, and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm, headquartered in New York with offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We are committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has opportunities to grow professionally and personally, through training and development opportunities, firmwide networks, benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.

We are committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.