About the role
- Compliance - Salt Lake City - Associate, Financial Crime Controls - 9055639 location_on Salt Lake City, UT, United States Compliance - Salt Lake City - Associate, Financial Crime Controls - 9055639 Apply Compliance - Salt Lake City - Associate, Financial Crime Controls - 9055639 location_on Salt Lake City, UT, United States Apply Job Duties Associate, Financial Crime Controls with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Support compliance personnel in capturing, analyzing, and documenting requirements and process flows, including drafting specification and business requirement documents for KYC (Know Your Client) processes.
- Provide feedback on KYC control effectiveness and support on ongoing optimization of KYC monitoring systems, scenarios, rules, and tools. This includes developing and proposing recommendations to address identified issues/risks and improve KYC processes. Understand trends in underlying data and advise on methodologies to detect potential suspicious activity or customers.
- Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on overall integrated delivery plan.
- Work with cross-divisional partners, including technology, operations, and business personnel through all aspects of strategic and tactical builds of critical compliance program elements. Conduct forensic financial crime investigations of possible violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), USA Patriot Act, and other crimes related to money laundering and terrorist financing. Draft and prepare internal and external memos and reports as part of findings. Job Requirements Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Law, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Financial Actuarial Mathematics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Software Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role. Prior experience must include three (3) years of experience with understanding KYC risks & global regulatory expectations for regulated financial institutions or retail banks to recognize and advise on current/emerging risks within the KYC program. Prior experience must include two (2) years of experience with building and enhancing existing processes; communicating requirements for consumption by technology and other cross-functional partners including detailing business requirements and testing scenarios to ensure any new builds in onboarding tools satisfy regulatory expectations; and analyzing data to draw conclusions for process improvement or issue identifications. ©The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. All rights reserved. Goldman Sachs is an
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