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Internal Audit – Banking Business – Associate – Birmingham

goldmansachs Goldman Sachs

Like most financial institutions, Goldman Sachs specializes in several key areas, including mergers and acquisitions, investment research, securities and risk management, and technological innovation.

Internal Audit’s (IA) mission is to independently assess the firm’s overall control environment, including the firm’s governance processes, controls, risk management and capital and anti-financial crime frameworks.

Internal Audit (IA) supports the Board of Directors’ Audit Committee and senior firm leadership in fulfilling their oversight roles by independently assessing the firm’s internal control structure, raising awareness of control risk, providing advice to management in developing control solutions, and monitoring the implementation of management’s control measures.

IA comprises global functional audit teams covering the various business areas of the firm: Global Markets, Investment Management & Banking, Corporate, Consumer and Commercial Banking and Technology.

The IA Banking team in London is responsible for auditing Investment Banking including Transaction Banking and the Global Investment Research business areas, its products, and supporting functions within the EMEA region.

HOW YOU WILL FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL

  • Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of business areas, its products, and supporting functions
  • Assist in every step of an audit, including documentation, across scoping, planning, fieldwork and reporting
  • Performing walkthroughs with stakeholders to perform control design assessments and presenting results of work performed to management
  • Execute audit testing to ensure audit fieldwork is focused on the right areas and documentation meets high quality standards
  • Identify risks, assess mitigating controls, and make recommendations on improving the control environment
  • Prepare commercially effective audit conclusions and findings, and present to Internal Audit senior management and business stakeholders
  • Follow-up on open audit issues and their resolution
  • Participate in department-wide initiatives aimed at continually improving Internal Audit’s processes and supporting infrastructure

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

  • Approximately +4 years of prior experience in auditing controls. This could be in an IA team, or consulting, regulatory body or a related control function, with controls testing as part of your role, i.e. compliance testing group or a risk and control team. Experience related to payments or transaction/corporate banking is required
  • Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g., ACA, CAMS, CIA, CFA) is a plus
  • Graduate degree in a related subject, science and humanity degrees as well as more specific accountancy or economics degrees will be considered
  • Team-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
  • Accurate, accountable and able to multitask while managing both time and work load
  • Interest in developing your knowledge of Investment Banking and Asset Management at Goldman Sachs
  • Able to work under minimal supervision on individual tasks or on team projects
  • Highly motivated with strong analytical skills, willing and able to learn new business and system processes quickly

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 firmwide 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

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Like most financial institutions, Goldman Sachs specializes in several key areas, including mergers and acquisitions, investment research, securities and risk management, and technological innovation.

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