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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 OPT Sponsorship as a Compliance Associate
Target employers with active compliance departments
Banks, insurance firms, and healthcare organizations maintain large in-house compliance teams and routinely sponsor work visas. These employers have existing immigration infrastructure, making OPT-to-H-1B visa transitions far smoother than with smaller companies.
Emphasize your degree's direct relevance
Compliance Associate roles typically require a degree in finance, accounting, law, or business. When applying, make the connection explicit. Visa sponsorship depends on demonstrating your degree is a direct requirement for the role, not just a preference.
Ask about sponsorship before the offer stage
Raise the sponsorship question during later-round interviews, not the first screen. Phrase it as a logistics question: ask whether the company has sponsored H-1B visas for compliance staff before and what that process typically looks like internally.
Pursue STEM OPT extension if your degree qualifies
Degrees in fields like data analytics, information systems, or quantitative finance may qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving you three years total on OPT and significantly more time to clear the H-1B lottery.
Highlight regulatory certifications in your applications
Certifications like CAMS, CRCM, or Series 7 signal genuine commitment to the compliance field. Employers value specialized credentials when evaluating international candidates, and they strengthen the case for visa sponsorship by demonstrating long-term career intent.
Use Migrate Mate to find OPT-friendly compliance roles
Migrate Mate surfaces Compliance Associate positions at employers who have a track record of sponsoring work visas. Filtering by sponsorship history saves you time and keeps your OPT authorization window focused on the right opportunities.
Compliance Associate OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Compliance Associate jobs typically qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes. Compliance Associate roles at regulated financial institutions, law firms, and healthcare companies generally meet the H-1B specialty occupation standard because they require a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as finance, accounting, or business. That said, sponsorship decisions are employer-by-employer, so it is worth confirming directly during the interview process.
Can I work as a Compliance Associate on F-1 OPT without prior full-time experience?
Yes. OPT is available after degree completion regardless of prior work history. Many Compliance Associate roles are entry-level and designed for recent graduates. Internship experience in compliance, audit, or risk management strengthens your application, but a relevant degree and any regulatory coursework can be sufficient to land your first role.
Where can I find Compliance Associate jobs that sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and surfaces Compliance Associate positions at employers with a demonstrated history of visa sponsorship. Searching there is more efficient than applying broadly, since you can focus your limited OPT authorization window on companies that are genuinely willing to sponsor.
Does a compliance degree field affect my eligibility for STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your specific degree, not your job title. A degree in information systems, quantitative finance, or data analytics may qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. A general business administration or political science degree typically does not. Check whether your CIP code appears on the official STEM Designated Degree Program list published by the Department of Homeland Security.
What happens to my OPT authorization if my Compliance Associate job ends before my OPT expires?
F-1 OPT students are permitted a total of 90 days of unemployment during their post-completion OPT period. If your position ends, that unemployment clock starts immediately. You should begin searching for a new qualifying role right away and report any employer changes to your Designated School Official through your SEVIS record to stay in status.