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Compliance roles in the U.S. require a bachelor's degree in a directly related field, which qualifies them as specialty occupations under the H-1B1 Singapore visa. With no lottery and a rarely-filled annual cap of 5,400, Singaporean compliance professionals can pursue sponsorship through consular processing without the uncertainty that defines the H-1B visa path.
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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.
FINANCIAL CRIME COMPLIANCE (FCC)
Within Global Compliance, FCC coordinates Goldman Sachs’ enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (BSA/AML), sanctions, anti-bribery compliance, and forensics surveillance efforts. The FCC team, which is comprised of professionals with extensive law enforcement, regulatory, legal, compliance, forensic consulting, operations, and business experience, administers an array of surveillances, due diligence and other control processes designed to identify potential money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, securities fraud, and other violations of the law.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
FCC’s Risk Assessment and Controls team is seeking a vice president with prior banking/financial industry experience. The individual will help to manage FCC’s regulatory change management program, including identifying relevant regulatory developments on an ongoing basis, assessing their impact to the Goldman Sachs financial crime program, and working with stakeholders across the organization to design and coordinate implementation of required program changes, including revisions to relevant policies and procedures. The individual will also assist in managing the design and execution of the FCC global risk assessment program, coordinating with stakeholders across the firm to gather and analyze data, prepare related materials, and report results to firm management and other stakeholders. The role also includes serving in an advisory capacity to other groups within FCC, coordinating controls-related activities.
The ideal candidate would have experience in financial crime compliance, strong analytical, communication and writing skills, and the ability to collaborate with others and manage projects and processes, as well as to prioritize and balance a heavy workload. In this role, the individual would be expected to quickly gain an understanding of the firm's businesses in conjunction with the rules and regulations under which the firm operates.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong academic record with Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
- Prior investment banking/financial services industry experience and knowledge of securities industry and products
- Prior compliance experience and a technical understanding of applicable AML, sanctions and bribery and corruption regulations
- Experience of using data analytics tools and knowledge of structured query language preferred
- Ability to work both independently and in team-oriented workflows
- Ability to manage expectations of key stakeholders
- Strong analytical and risk assessment skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritize workflows and ensure deadlines are met
- Ability to forge strong relationships with colleagues and clients
- Proactive, self-motivated, detail-oriented and well-organized
- Compliance or legal-related experience in financial services preferred
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
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Richardson
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.
FINANCIAL CRIME COMPLIANCE (FCC)
Within Global Compliance, FCC coordinates Goldman Sachs’ enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (BSA/AML), sanctions, anti-bribery compliance, and forensics surveillance efforts. The FCC team, which is comprised of professionals with extensive law enforcement, regulatory, legal, compliance, forensic consulting, operations, and business experience, administers an array of surveillances, due diligence and other control processes designed to identify potential money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, securities fraud, and other violations of the law.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
FCC’s Risk Assessment and Controls team is seeking a vice president with prior banking/financial industry experience. The individual will help to manage FCC’s regulatory change management program, including identifying relevant regulatory developments on an ongoing basis, assessing their impact to the Goldman Sachs financial crime program, and working with stakeholders across the organization to design and coordinate implementation of required program changes, including revisions to relevant policies and procedures. The individual will also assist in managing the design and execution of the FCC global risk assessment program, coordinating with stakeholders across the firm to gather and analyze data, prepare related materials, and report results to firm management and other stakeholders. The role also includes serving in an advisory capacity to other groups within FCC, coordinating controls-related activities.
The ideal candidate would have experience in financial crime compliance, strong analytical, communication and writing skills, and the ability to collaborate with others and manage projects and processes, as well as to prioritize and balance a heavy workload. In this role, the individual would be expected to quickly gain an understanding of the firm's businesses in conjunction with the rules and regulations under which the firm operates.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong academic record with Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
- Prior investment banking/financial services industry experience and knowledge of securities industry and products
- Prior compliance experience and a technical understanding of applicable AML, sanctions and bribery and corruption regulations
- Experience of using data analytics tools and knowledge of structured query language preferred
- Ability to work both independently and in team-oriented workflows
- Ability to manage expectations of key stakeholders
- Strong analytical and risk assessment skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritize workflows and ensure deadlines are met
- Ability to forge strong relationships with colleagues and clients
- Proactive, self-motivated, detail-oriented and well-organized
- Compliance or legal-related experience in financial services preferred
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
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Richardson
JOB FUNCTION
Business Unit Compliance
DIVISION
Compliance Division
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Verify your degree field meets specialty occupation
Compliance roles require a degree in a directly related field, finance, accounting, law, or business. A general commerce degree may need supporting documentation. Pull your O*NET occupation profile to confirm the standard entry-level education before your employer files.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to identify U.S. employers that have filed Labor Condition Applications for compliance roles. This tells you which companies have already navigated H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship, shortcutting your outreach to genuinely visa-ready employers.
Flag your H-1B1 status early in interviews
Many U.S. compliance hiring managers confuse H-1B1 with H-1B and assume a lottery is involved. Clarify that the H-1B1 Singapore process runs through the consulate, with no lottery and no USCIS petition required, so approval doesn't depend on an annual draw.
Confirm your employer files the LCA before your interview date
Your employer must obtain a certified Labor Condition Application from DOL before you can attend your consular interview. Delays here are the most common bottleneck. Nail down the LCA timeline with your HR contact as soon as you receive a written offer.
Check prevailing wage requirements for your compliance title
Your offered salary must meet the DOL prevailing wage for your specific compliance role and work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage level for your SOC code before negotiating compensation, so there are no surprises during LCA certification.
Gather your Singapore credentials for consular review
The U.S. consulate in Singapore reviews your academic transcripts, degree certificates, and professional credentials directly. If your compliance qualifications include certifications from MAS-regulated bodies or Singapore law, bring translated documentation that maps them to U.S. equivalents.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do compliance roles qualify as specialty occupations under the H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes. Compliance roles typically require at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as finance, accounting, law, or business administration. That degree requirement is what qualifies the position as a specialty occupation. Your employer confirms this in the Labor Condition Application they file with DOL before your consular interview.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from H-1B for compliance professionals?
The H-1B1 Singapore visa has no lottery, no USCIS petition, and a dedicated annual cap of 5,400 that has never been exhausted. You apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore through consular processing. H-1B requires your employer to file a petition with USCIS and enter a lottery where selection isn't guaranteed, adding months of uncertainty before any interview.
How do I find U.S. employers willing to sponsor H-1B1 Singapore visas for compliance jobs?
Use Migrate Mate to search for employers with verified Labor Condition Application filing history in compliance and related fields. LCA filings are public DOL data, so you can see which companies have already sponsored roles in your field, saving you from targeting employers who haven't navigated the H-1B1 Singapore process before.
Can I work in compliance for a financial services employer on an H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes, financial services firms are among the more active H-1B1 Singapore sponsors for compliance roles, particularly in areas like regulatory reporting, AML, and risk. Your role still needs to meet the specialty occupation definition, and your employer must certify the DOL prevailing wage for your title and work location before your consular interview.
What documents should I prepare for my H-1B1 Singapore consular interview?
Bring your DS-160 confirmation, the certified LCA from your employer, your degree certificates and transcripts, your offer letter, and your Singapore passport. If your compliance credentials include professional certifications or Singapore-specific regulatory qualifications, include translated documentation explaining how they relate to your U.S. role. The consular officer may ask you to demonstrate the connection between your academic background and the compliance position.