Non-Financial Risk Vice President

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

Goldman Sachs is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services across investment banking, securities, investment management, consumer banking, and wealth management. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in major financial centers around the world.

GBM PRIVATE NON-FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT 

We are seeking an experienced operational risk professional to join GBM Private Non-Financial Risk Management, supporting the franchise in managing and strengthening its operational risk profile. The role covers GBM Private business activities, products, transaction lifecycles, controls, and regional workflows, with a focus on governance, risk discipline, and franchise resilience. The successful candidate will bring strong risk judgment, analytical curiosity, clear communication, and the ability to challenge stakeholders and drive practical improvements.

JOB SUMMARY & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide front-to-back non-financial risk coverage across GBM Private, identifying and mitigating key risks across products, processes, and transaction lifecycles.
• Advise and challenge stakeholders on risk mitigation, ensuring issues and remediation plans are clearly defined, owned, and tracked.
• Analyze risk data to identify trends, themes, and matters requiring management attention.
• Support operational risk event reviews, including root cause analysis, residual risk assessment, lessons learned, and remediation tracking.
• Conduct targeted risk reviews and recommend practical actions to address control gaps.
• Support quarterly RCSA activities by assessing risks, controls, effectiveness, and thematic remediation needs.
• Assess non-financial risk impacts from new initiatives, acquisitions, migrations, and strategic developments.
• Drive risk discussions and governance forums, presenting clear conclusions to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-functional responses to market or risk events, supporting issue triage and timely decisions.
• Prepare clear reporting and presentations for senior management and governance forums.
• Improve risk reporting, analytics, governance, automation, data quality, and KRI usage.
• Challenge and enhance risk and control frameworks, promoting risk awareness and stronger controls.
• Collaborate with regional and global stakeholders to share best practices and develop integrated risk solutions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate/Masters with 12 years of expereince
• Relevant experience in non-financial risk, operational risk, enterprise risk, compliance, audit, consulting, financial services operations, or a related control function; typically 7+ years.
• Risk and control mindset, with curiosity to understand how risks arise and how controls can be improved.
• Analytical capability, with comfort using risk data, metrics, trends, and reporting outputs to identify themes, areas of heightened risk, and opportunities for control enhancement.
• Familiarity with GBM products, transaction lifecycles, and end-to-end operational flows is preferred, but not required. Candidates with relevant risk and control experience from adjacent financial services, operations, audit, compliance, or consulting backgrounds and an interest in developing GBM product knowledge will also be considered.
• Experience with data analysis, reporting, automation, or visualization tools such as Excel, Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI, Python, VBA, or similar technologies.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain issues, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders at different levels.
• Effective influencing skills, with the ability to challenge constructively, build consensus, and support continuous enhancement of the control environment.
• Ownership, accountability, sound judgment, and ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Highly motivated and organized, with sound time management skills and the ability to prioritize effectively across multiple deliverables.
• Innovative mindset, with interest in using automation, analytics, emerging technologies, and low-code solutions to improve risk monitoring, reporting, and governance processes.
• Exceptional candidates who do not meet every listed requirement but demonstrate risk judgment, ownership, analytical capability, and potential to grow into the role will be considered.