Compliance, Global Banking & Markets Compliance, Analyst (m|f|x) Paris

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

The GBM Public Compliance team is part of the Global Compliance department, which prevents, detects, and mitigates compliance, regulatory, and reputational risks across the firm and helps strengthen the firm’s culture of compliance.

Compliance achieves this through the firm’s enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firm’s second line of defense, Compliance assesses the firm’s compliance, regulatory, and reputational risks; monitors compliance with new or amended laws, rules, and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures, and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils, and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and leads the firm’s responses to regulatory examinations, audits, and inquiries.

This is an analyst-level role within the Paris Global Banking and Markets – Public (“GBM Public Compliance”) Compliance Team, providing compliance coverage across the market-leading Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) and Equities business units.

The role reports to the Paris-based Heads of Goldman Sachs Bank Europe (“GSBE”) FICC and Equities Compliance and is part of the Global Banking and Markets – Public Compliance team

Tasks

• Providing real-time compliance advice to the FICC and Equities business units regarding relevant European rules, regulations, and internal policies that govern the business.
• Provide support with the interpretation and implementation of new rules and regulations—assessing regulatory risks, regulatory changes, and their potential impact on EU FICC and Equities business units.
• Providing proactive risk mitigation guidance on regulatory and policy matters, including individual transactions, new products, and business initiatives.
• Assistance with the interpretation and implementation of new rules and regulations—assessing regulatory risks, regulatory changes, and potential impact.
• Develop and deploy second-line controls and assist the first line in developing their controls.
• Assist with the review of new algorithms and other electronic business initiatives to ensure compliance with EU and German-specific requirements.
• Assisting with the review of escalations regarding policy or conduct violations
• Review of marketing materials and memos from the New Activities Committee.
• Collaborating with Legal, Controllers, Internal Audit, Technology, Operations (Client Onboarding), and other areas within Compliance (including the broader Global Banking and Markets – Public team) or the business divisions to ensure the prompt and coordinated resolution of compliance matters.
• Assist with coordinating responses to ad hoc regulatory, exchange, and audit inquiries, including using firm systems to conduct monitoring and testing activities.
• Collaborating with other Compliance departments and the business to prepare responses to information requests in advance of regulatory audits, reviews, reports, and questionnaires.
• Assist with the review and escalation of suspicious transactions.
• Develop and deliver training sessions on compliance policies and procedures, including those related to EU and French regulatory requirements.
• Update compliance-related policies and procedures in accordance with applicable European and French regulations and Group requirements.

Profile / Your qualification / Your personality

• Analyst level
• Degree or equivalent (not essential if the candidate has relevant work experience).
• Desirable, but not essential: Compliance experience gained by working on a trading floor for a Tier 1 firm or other organizations with sophisticated algorithmic/electronic business units and/or complex financing/trading capabilities
• Professional qualifications such as the CISI Diploma, CFA, or AMF certification are an advantage.
• Strong interest in financial markets, compliance, and regulatory matters
• Ability to process large amounts of information on new topics, identify key points, and present them concisely to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work to tight deadlines, balancing short-term and long-term inquiries and projects, in a trading floor environment that involves multiple daily live interactions with stakeholders.
• Proactive, self-motivated, assertive, and well-organized.
• Ability to work independently while remaining a strong team player.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work to tight deadlines.
• Ability to communicate effectively and drive practical results.
• Forward-looking, with a focus on improving and streamlining controls and processes.
• An understanding of or awareness of EU regulations (MiFID II, MAR, Benchmarks, EMIR, CSDR), French regulations (AMF General Rule Book, French Monetary and Financial Code), as well as U.S. regulations (Dodd-Frank Act and other major CFTC- and SEC-driven regulations).
• Ability to contribute to and thrive in an international, diverse, and inclusive environment.
• Analytical mindset, inquisitive, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to make sound decisions—including escalation when appropriate—regarding regulatory risks.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues in all divisions across the region and coordinate with the global and regional compliance teams.
• Fluent in English (knowledge of French and/or German is a plus).

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Location

85 Avenue Marceau, FR-75116 Paris