Investment Management OPT Jobs in Utah

INTRODUCTION

Job Duties: Associate, Financial Crime Controls with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. Support compliance personnel in capturing, analyzing, and documenting requirements and process flows, including drafting specification and business requirement documents for KYC (Know Your Client) processes. Provide feedback on KYC control effectiveness and support on ongoing optimization of KYC monitoring systems, scenarios, rules, and tools. This includes developing and proposing recommendations to address identified issues/risks and improve KYC processes. Understand trends in underlying data and advise on methodologies to detect potential suspicious activity or customers. Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on overall integrated delivery plan. Work with cross-divisional partners, including technology, operations, and business personnel through all aspects of strategic and tactical builds of critical compliance program elements. Conduct forensic financial crime investigations of possible violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), USA Patriot Act, and other crimes related to money laundering and terrorist financing. Draft and prepare internal and external memos and reports as part of findings.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Support compliance personnel in capturing, analyzing, and documenting requirements and process flows
- Draft specification and business requirement documents for KYC processes
- Provide feedback on KYC control effectiveness and support ongoing optimization of KYC monitoring systems, scenarios, rules, and tools
- Develop and propose recommendations to address identified issues/risks and improve KYC processes
- Understand trends in underlying data and advise on methodologies to detect potential suspicious activity or customers
- Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on overall integrated delivery plan
- Work with cross-divisional partners, including technology, operations, and business personnel through all aspects of strategic and tactical builds of critical compliance program elements
- Conduct forensic financial crime investigations of possible violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), USA Patriot Act, and other crimes related to money laundering and terrorist financing
- Draft and prepare internal and external memos and reports as part of findings

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Law, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Financial Actuarial Mathematics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Software Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role.

Prior experience must include three (3) years of experience with:
- Understanding KYC risks & global regulatory expectations for regulated financial institutions or retail banks to recognize and advise on current/emerging risks within the KYC program

Prior experience must include two (2) years of experience with:
- Building and enhancing existing processes
- Communicating requirements for consumption by technology and other cross-functional partners including detailing business requirements and testing scenarios to ensure any new builds in onboarding tools satisfy regulatory expectations
- Analyzing data to draw conclusions for process improvement or issue identifications

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

©The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. 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, veteran 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.

LOCATION

Salt Lake City

OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEW

CORPORATE TITLE
Associate

OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Salt Lake City

DIVISION
Compliance Division