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Our division prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm’s culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these 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 risk; monitors for 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. You'll be part of a team with members from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, such as law, accounting, sales, and trading. We look for those who possess sound judgment, curiosity, and are able to adapt to a changing regulatory landscape.
CF& O Compliance - BUSINESS UNIT AND ROLE OVERVIEW
Part of the Global Compliance Division, the firm’s CF&O Compliance team is a global team with responsibility for providing compliance coverage to Corporate Treasury, Engineering, Controllers, Operations, Corporate and Workplace Solutions, Executive Office, Corporate Planning & Management, Risk, Tax and Human Capital Management divisions. This includes:
- Conducting risk identification, measurement, and assessment
- Monitoring for compliance with laws, rules, regulations and policies, including the identification and investigation of conduct related issues
- Participating in firm responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries
- Performing surveillance and investigations of business activities of the above-referenced Federation groups
- Testing the effectiveness of controls
- Writing policies and procedures
- Communicating regulatory requirements and firm policy expectations to educate others both one-on-one and through compliance learning initiatives
ROLE, RESPONSIBILITIES, and QUALIFICATIONS
This role will focus on, but not be limited to, providing Compliance coverage of Corporate Treasury with an emphasis on regulatory and conduct risk in the Americas. As Corporate Treasury Compliance coverage, you will provide real-time compliance guidance to the Corporate Treasury Division holistically and trading-specific compliance guidance to the Corporate Treasury trading group. This includes all relevant rules, regulations and internal policies that govern the Corporate Treasury business.
A successful candidate will also participate in region-wide and global initiatives to enact the Global Compliance mandate.
To fulfil this role, you will:
- Provide Compliance coverage for Corporate Treasury functions, including Liquidity Management, Asset Liability Management, Payments, Resource Allocation, Execution (trading), and Operations and Engineering
- Review and challenge Treasury activities (funding, pricing practices, payments processing, cash sweeps, collateral use) for regulatory and conduct risks
- Provide proactive, early-stage compliance challenge and guidance on new activities, including regulatory impact assessment and control design
- Support the completion of various risk assessment programs impacting Corporate Treasury
- Perform targeted reviews of Corporate Treasury controls and processes
- Support the development and analysis of related policies, standards, and processes to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and requirements
- Identify, investigate, and manage compliance issues involving Corporate Treasury; coordinate timely escalation, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions
- Provide support and guidance to Corporate Treasury in regulatory exams and inquiries; prepare materials and evidence and oversee issue management
- Brief senior leadership on risks identified and ensure stakeholder engagement
- Develop and deliver targeted training programs
- Investigate and liaise with internal stakeholders in relation to conduct issues
- Coordinate with the broader CF&O Compliance team on initiatives and projects
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- At least 3 years of Compliance, Legal, Regulatory or Financial Services industry experience
- Knowledge of activities of a Treasury function and fixed income trading products
- Understanding of regulations, practices and markets infrastructure in the Americas
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
A strong candidate for CF&O Compliance will satisfy some or all of the following criteria:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- At least 3 years of Compliance, Legal, Regulatory or Financial Services industry experience
- Knowledge of activities of a Treasury function and fixed income trading products
- Understanding of regulations, practices and markets infrastructure in the Americas
A strong candidate for CF&O Compliance will possess the following skills:
- Clear, concise communications skills; able to communicate with impact at senior levels
- Able and willing to challenge; comfortable with inter-personal conflict; able to build strong professional rapport with stakeholders while maintaining independence as a risk manager
- Sound judgment, ethics and integrity
- Fast learner; able to adapt to business and regulatory changes; interest to challenge status quo and finding innovative solutions
- Proficient in using technology; able to analyze data sets and summarize findings
- Team-oriented and supportive of others’ success; comfortable representing a teamwork product to stakeholders
- Well organized with the ability to manage both longer term projects and daily, often time-sensitive, escalations
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.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Business Unit Compliance
DIVISION
Compliance Division
Global Compliance
Our division prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm’s culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these 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 risk; monitors for 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. You'll be part of a team with members from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, such as law, accounting, sales, and trading. We look for those who possess sound judgment, curiosity, and are able to adapt to a changing regulatory landscape.
CF& O Compliance - BUSINESS UNIT AND ROLE OVERVIEW
Part of the Global Compliance Division, the firm’s CF&O Compliance team is a global team with responsibility for providing compliance coverage to Corporate Treasury, Engineering, Controllers, Operations, Corporate and Workplace Solutions, Executive Office, Corporate Planning & Management, Risk, Tax and Human Capital Management divisions. This includes:
- Conducting risk identification, measurement, and assessment
- Monitoring for compliance with laws, rules, regulations and policies, including the identification and investigation of conduct related issues
- Participating in firm responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries
- Performing surveillance and investigations of business activities of the above-referenced Federation groups
- Testing the effectiveness of controls
- Writing policies and procedures
- Communicating regulatory requirements and firm policy expectations to educate others both one-on-one and through compliance learning initiatives
ROLE, RESPONSIBILITIES, and QUALIFICATIONS
This role will focus on, but not be limited to, providing Compliance coverage of Corporate Treasury with an emphasis on regulatory and conduct risk in the Americas. As Corporate Treasury Compliance coverage, you will provide real-time compliance guidance to the Corporate Treasury Division holistically and trading-specific compliance guidance to the Corporate Treasury trading group. This includes all relevant rules, regulations and internal policies that govern the Corporate Treasury business.
A successful candidate will also participate in region-wide and global initiatives to enact the Global Compliance mandate.
To fulfil this role, you will:
- Provide Compliance coverage for Corporate Treasury functions, including Liquidity Management, Asset Liability Management, Payments, Resource Allocation, Execution (trading), and Operations and Engineering
- Review and challenge Treasury activities (funding, pricing practices, payments processing, cash sweeps, collateral use) for regulatory and conduct risks
- Provide proactive, early-stage compliance challenge and guidance on new activities, including regulatory impact assessment and control design
- Support the completion of various risk assessment programs impacting Corporate Treasury
- Perform targeted reviews of Corporate Treasury controls and processes
- Support the development and analysis of related policies, standards, and processes to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and requirements
- Identify, investigate, and manage compliance issues involving Corporate Treasury; coordinate timely escalation, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions
- Provide support and guidance to Corporate Treasury in regulatory exams and inquiries; prepare materials and evidence and oversee issue management
- Brief senior leadership on risks identified and ensure stakeholder engagement
- Develop and deliver targeted training programs
- Investigate and liaise with internal stakeholders in relation to conduct issues
- Coordinate with the broader CF&O Compliance team on initiatives and projects
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- At least 3 years of Compliance, Legal, Regulatory or Financial Services industry experience
- Knowledge of activities of a Treasury function and fixed income trading products
- Understanding of regulations, practices and markets infrastructure in the Americas
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
A strong candidate for CF&O Compliance will satisfy some or all of the following criteria:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- At least 3 years of Compliance, Legal, Regulatory or Financial Services industry experience
- Knowledge of activities of a Treasury function and fixed income trading products
- Understanding of regulations, practices and markets infrastructure in the Americas
A strong candidate for CF&O Compliance will possess the following skills:
- Clear, concise communications skills; able to communicate with impact at senior levels
- Able and willing to challenge; comfortable with inter-personal conflict; able to build strong professional rapport with stakeholders while maintaining independence as a risk manager
- Sound judgment, ethics and integrity
- Fast learner; able to adapt to business and regulatory changes; interest to challenge status quo and finding innovative solutions
- Proficient in using technology; able to analyze data sets and summarize findings
- Team-oriented and supportive of others’ success; comfortable representing a teamwork product to stakeholders
- Well organized with the ability to manage both longer term projects and daily, often time-sensitive, escalations
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.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Business Unit Compliance
DIVISION
Compliance Division
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Compliance Associate
Verify your degree field aligns precisely
Compliance Associate petitions get RFEs when the degree field is too broad. A business administration degree supporting a financial compliance role needs a transcript showing concentration in finance or accounting, not just general management coursework.
Filter employers by LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to search for Compliance Associate roles at employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application filings. This filters out employers who list sponsorship as a possibility but have no actual filing track record in compliance-specific roles.
Target cap-exempt employers first
Nonprofits, universities, and government research organizations are exempt from the 85,000-slot H-1B cap. Compliance roles exist at these institutions in grant management, research integrity, and regulatory affairs, letting you bypass the lottery entirely.
Pull the OFLC Wage Search for your metro area
Your LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your specific location and job zone. Look up Compliance Associate wages under SOC code 13-1041 in OFLC Wage Search before negotiating your offer so the salary clears the threshold.
Document any CAMS, CRCM, or CFE credentials
Industry certifications like CAMS, CRCM, or CFE strengthen the specialty occupation argument in your H-1B petition by showing the role requires specialized knowledge beyond a generalist degree. Include them in your support letter and resume before your employer files.
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Find Compliance Associate JobsCompliance Associate H-1B Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Compliance Associate role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as finance, accounting, law, or business with a compliance concentration. Roles in financial services, healthcare, or tech that involve regulatory frameworks, BSA requirements, or FCPA obligations generally meet the specialty occupation standard. Generic compliance coordinator positions without a degree requirement may not qualify, so the job description language matters.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most often for Compliance Associates?
Financial services firms, large banks, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare systems, and major tech platforms file H-1B petitions for Compliance Associate roles with regularity. These industries operate under dense regulatory frameworks, such as SEC, FDA, HIPAA, and SOX, that require dedicated compliance staff. To find employers actively filing for this role, browse Compliance Associate listings on Migrate Mate, which filters by verified H-1B sponsorship history.
Can my employer file for H-1B sponsorship if I'm currently on OPT?
Yes. If you're working as a Compliance Associate on OPT, your employer can register you in the March H-1B lottery and file your petition if selected. If your OPT expires before October 1 and you're selected, the cap-gap rule extends your authorization automatically through September 30. You'll need to confirm your employer files the I-129 petition promptly after selection to preserve that bridge.
What documents should I prepare to support my H-1B petition for this role?
Your employer's attorney will need your official transcripts showing a degree in a directly related field, your resume with compliance-specific responsibilities clearly described, and copies of any professional certifications such as CAMS or CRCM. If your degree is from outside the U.S., a credential evaluation from a NACES-member organization is typically required. The employer prepares the LCA through DOL and the I-129 petition through USCIS.
Does the H-1B lottery hurt my chances of finding a sponsoring employer in compliance?
The lottery creates uncertainty, but cap-exempt employers such as universities, nonprofits, and government-affiliated research organizations offer compliance roles without lottery risk. For cap-subject employers, applying early in hiring cycles, before March registration, gives employers time to plan. Some large compliance teams also use premium processing to accelerate adjudication after lottery selection, reducing the wait from months to weeks.
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