Private Wealth Management Compliance Officer - Market Solutions Group - Vice President - London[...]

Goldman Sachs; City of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment firm is seeking a Compliance Officer focused on capital markets, equity structuring, and managed strategies. This role involves providing compliance advice, conducting surveillance, and developing policies to support private wealth management. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of compliance experience and strong analytical skills, along with a degree in finance or a related field. Opportunities for professional growth and competitive benefits are included.

Benefits

Medical and dental insurance

Generous vacation entitlements

On-site fitness centers

Qualifications

• 5+ years' compliance or financial services experience.
• Detailed knowledge of local regulatory environment.
• Experience conducting trade surveillance or equivalent monitoring activity.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on live queries and transactions.
• Conduct trading and suitability surveillance.
• Develop compliance-related policies and procedures.

Skills

Strong product knowledge of trading strategies

Effective written/oral communication skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Good interpersonal skills

Team player

Education

University degree in finance or related field

Professional compliance qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

Private Wealth Management Compliance Officer – Market Solutions Group – Vice President – London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

SUMMARY

The Compliance role is based in London and will have a particular focus on capital markets, equity structuring and managed strategies offering (including derivatives, structured products, new issues securities, centrally managed strategies). Responsibilities will include providing product related compliance advice, project management, updating policies, monitoring, thematic compliance reviews, product/trade approvals and post‑trade surveillances.

OUR IMPACT

Market Solutions Group Compliance works closely with the business to deliver to Private Wealth clients a broad array of investment solutions and to customize them to fit client’s needs.

This role will provide product‑related compliance advice and support to the PWM business. Specific tasks would include conducting compliance surveillance, review of marketing materials and training, product and trade approvals as well as advisory and, to a limited extent, project work.

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide advice to the business on live queries and/or transactions
• Conduct trading and suitability surveillance
• Provide compliance input in product design and approvals
• Develop and implement compliance‑related policies and procedures
• Review and sign‑off marketing materials prepared for distribution to clients / prospects
• Manage compliance‑led projects and represent PWM Divisional Compliance on firm‑wide and cross‑regional projects and working groups
• Analyze and implement regulatory changes affecting the PWM business
• Develop and deliver training for business personnel
• Represent compliance in Divisional Committees, such as the Order Execution Review Committee
• Conduct programmatic reviews such as thematic reviews for best execution monitoring and other ad‑hoc compliance forensics

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree and/or professional compliance / financial services qualification
• 5+ years’ compliance or other relevant financial services experience; private wealth management / retail client experience preferred
• Strong product knowledge and trading strategies used by PWM, e.g. structured products, OTC derivatives
• Detailed knowledge of local regulatory environment
• Knowledge of other European or international regulatory regimes is an advantage
• Experience of conducting trade surveillance or equivalent monitoring activity
• Good interpersonal skills and effective written/oral communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to exercise sound and balanced judgement
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work under pressure
• Team player
• Minimum proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word

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, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We’re committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firm‑wide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

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.

Financial Wellness & Retirement: 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.

Health Services: 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.

Fitness: 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).

Child Care & Family Care: We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency backup 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.