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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 Visa Sponsorship as a Compliance Associate
Confirm the degree requirement is in the job posting
For H-1B specialty occupation approval, the role must require a specific bachelor's degree. Make sure job postings say 'required,' not 'preferred.' A vague education requirement can lead to a denial at the petition stage.
Target regulated industries with compliance teams
Financial services, healthcare, and pharmaceutical companies maintain large compliance functions and sponsor visas regularly. These employers are familiar with the process and often have in-house immigration counsel, which speeds up your petition timeline considerably.
Highlight your degree field on your resume
Compliance roles often require degrees in finance, accounting, legal studies, or business. USCIS looks for a direct connection between your degree and the role. Make that link explicit in your resume and cover letter to support the specialty occupation argument.
Ask about sponsorship early in the interview process
Compliance hiring managers at established firms are generally familiar with visa sponsorship. Raising it early screens out employers who won't sponsor and saves time. Frame it as a process question, not a burden, to keep the conversation constructive and professional.
Use Migrate Mate to find roles already open to sponsorship
Filtering for visa-sponsoring employers upfront removes the guesswork from your search. Migrate Mate lists compliance roles at companies with a documented history of sponsoring work visas, so you can focus your applications where they're most likely to succeed.
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Find Compliance Associate JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Can a Compliance Associate role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, provided the position requires a specific bachelor's degree in a field like finance, accounting, legal studies, or a related discipline. USCIS evaluates each petition based on whether the role meets the specialty occupation standard. Generic compliance roles that accept any degree are more vulnerable to RFEs, so the job description wording matters significantly.
Which visa types are most common for Compliance Associates?
The H-1B is the most widely used, but Australian citizens should seriously consider the E-3, which has no lottery, a 10,500 annual cap that's never been filled, and allows two-year renewable status. Canadians and Mexicans in accounting or legal compliance roles may qualify under TN. The right visa depends on your nationality and the nature of the role.
What degree do I need for a Compliance Associate visa petition?
A bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, legal studies, or a related field is most commonly used to support a specialty occupation petition. If your degree is in a different field, USCIS allows three years of relevant work experience to substitute for one year of formal education, though a strong degree-to-role match is always preferable.
Do financial services employers sponsor compliance roles more often than others?
Financial services firms, particularly banks, asset managers, and insurance companies, are among the most frequent sponsors for compliance roles because they operate under strict regulatory frameworks requiring specialized staff. Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies follow closely. Browse Migrate Mate to identify which employers in these sectors are actively hiring compliance professionals with visa sponsorship.
What makes a Compliance Associate petition more likely to be approved?
The strongest petitions clearly establish that the role requires a specific degree in a directly related field, not just any bachelor's degree. Supporting documentation should include the job description, evidence of the employer's regulatory environment, and details about how the role's duties require specialized knowledge. An immigration attorney familiar with financial or regulatory compliance roles can significantly strengthen the petition.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Compliance Associate jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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