What are the responsibilities and job description for the Compliance, Administrative Assistant, New York position at Goldman Sachs?
Administrative Assistant - AM Compliance & WM Compliance – Global Compliance
Global Compliance prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm’s culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes this through the firm’s enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firm’s second line of defense, Compliance assesses the firm’s compliance, regulatory and reputational risk; monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and helps to oversee the firm’s responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries.
This position sits within the divisional compliance teams that cover the Goldman Sachs’ Asset & Wealth Management business. The candidate will provide administrative support to the Global Heads of Asset Management Compliance and Wealth Management Compliance, as well as their New York-based senior management team (four Managing Directors).
Key skills for success in this role:
- Staying on top of complex calendars and phones in real time—prioritizing competing requests, anticipating conflicts, and ensuring [global heads] are prepared for each day
- Building strong relationships across the administrative organization and key stakeholders to quickly coordinate availability and get meetings confirmed and on the calendar
- Exercising utmost discretion—handling confidential and highly sensitive information with sound judgment and professionalism at all times
- Team player with a professional, positive, and service-oriented attitude
- Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills
- Strong organization, prioritization, and multitasking in deadline-driven settings; detail-oriented
- Quick learner and self-starter with excellent anticipation skills
- Pro-active problem solver and independent thinker; ability to follow up as often as necessary
- Comfortable partnering across all organizational levels
Experience required:
- 5 years administrative assistant experience; finance industry preferred
- Strong knowledge of general business, corporate, and government environments
- Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Familiar with expense platforms such as SAP Concur
- Bachelor’s degree required
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York City, NY United States-based position is $70000-$110000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.
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Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
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Opportunity Overview CORPORATE TITLE Support OFFICE LOCATION(S) New York JOB FUNCTION Business Unit Compliance DIVISION Compliance Division SALARY RANGE USD 70,000 - 110,000
Salary : $70,000 - $110,000