Internal Audit - Transformation/Strategic Delivery - Vice President

Internal Audit

In Internal Audit, we independently assess the firms overall control environment by assessing the firm's governance processes and controls, and risk management and capital and anti-financial crime frameworks. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry and its products and operations. We're looking for detail-oriented team players who have an interest in financial markets and want to gain insight into the firm's operations and control processes.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centres around the world 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.

Transformation Office

We are a new team forming to ensure that:

Internal Audit strategy is a vision that is set with purpose, articulated with precision, and communicated clearly and persistently - creating rhythm for the whole of IA to get behind.

What We Do

Strategic Vision for IA:

• Partner with IA Leadership to define strategic vision with desired outcomes.
• Work to align everyone around this vision and direction.

Drive Value:

• Identify, articulate, and measure progress towards defined outcomes to ensure we deliver on promised benefits

Governance:

• Establish clear decision-making authority and transparent reporting, enabling IA transformation activities to move with agility

People:

• Build a team of motivated individuals. Ensuring they have the environment and support they need to get the job done, encouraging, and empowering them to experiment and innovate, and helping to remove impediments from their path

Job Summary & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Support the Transformation Lead in operating and continuously improving the structure for programme governance of the IA Strategy, providing regular status updates and opportunities to inspect and adapt for the portfolio
• Ensure the work of the Strategy is well communicated and advocated for across IA through the design, creation and management of a communication strategy and channels that successfully reach IA staff and stakeholders
• Design and implement initiatives focused on IA practices, enhancing processes to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness with which assurance work is executed, liaising with the Professional Practices, Divisional Operations and Learning and Development teams in design and implementation including communication and training of changes
• Supporting ad-hoc projects designed to promote divisional efficiencies and advance the IA division, including development of business requirements and user acceptance testing
• Servant leadership for MD Stream Owners and Delivery leads to remove impediments and ensure implementation runs in alignment with plans
• Creating an environment of effective delivery helping to connect the dots and manage dependencies between streams and other IA teams
• Ensure that the streams and objectives of the Strategy deliver agreed outcomes
• Delivery in line with policies and standards
• Where required delivery of initiatives on behalf of MD Stream Owners

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Computer Engineering/Science or related field
• 6 - 10 years of experience in the job offered, IA Professional Practices role or in internal audit, or related control function, preferably within the financial services industry
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and work well under pressure
• Providing verbal and written updates to senior stakeholders, including executive-level stakeholders
• Designing and delivering change initiatives
• Strong understanding of risk and control concept with the ability to evaluate and determine adequacy of internal control framework

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $115000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

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.