Global Banking & Markets, Operations, Client On-Boarding – Rolling Review, Vice President, Singapore

Global Banking & Markets, Operations, Client On-Boarding – Rolling Review, Vice President, Singapore

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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Global Banking and Markets, Operations, Client On-Boarding: Are you looking to apply your quantitative skills whilst honing your skillsets to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, securities fraud, and other financial crimes? Our Client Onboarding team is seeking an energetic, proactive, and detail-oriented professional to support the KYC refresh function in the Singapore office. The main functional duty will be to ensure our clients' ongoing adherence to applicable Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) policies and regulatory requirements.

How you will fulfill your potential:

• Ensure due diligence is performed on existing clients to comply with AML/KYC regulations.
• Develop expertise and execute the Firm’s Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Due Diligence (CDD) policies and process.
• Engage clients and internal business teams to obtain relevant CDD information and documentation.
• Ensuring all communications are of the highest professional standard to maintain client service excellence.
• Timely and effective escalation of potential issues and devising possible resolutions.
• Take responsibility for delivering against committed timelines.
• Participate in regular meetings with the program team to maintain clarity around workflow, understand changes to AML/KYC regulations and or expectations, and develop required reporting metrics and executional process.

Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required to professionally and persuasively engage external clients and internal stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and changing requirement.
• Excellent organizational skills with strong attention to detail given the regulatory nature of the role.
• Team management capabilities, including people management skillset.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Experience of AML/CDD requirements either via a Client Onboarding role or similar role including an understanding of all types of client structures and requirements such as hedge funds, private corporations, financial institutions, trusts, etc.
• Minimum 6 years related working experience in the financial industry or client-facing role.
• Proven ability to work well in a global team environment, with excellent interpersonal skills to engage and influence internal and/or external stakeholders and sponsors.
• Book of work planning, management, control, and delivery, including process development and implementation to ensure team productivity, and act as an escalation point for any workstream issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Business to native level in written and spoken language for either Mandarin, Japanese or Korean to help existing foreign clients comply with AML/KYC regulatory requirements and interact with foreign external stakeholders.

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.

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