Associate

Opportunity Overview

Goldman Sachs’ Asset & Wealth Management Division (AWM) is one of the world’s leading investment managers. AWM provides institutional and individual investors with investment and advisory solutions, with strategies spanning public and private asset classes, industries, and geographies. AWM helps clients navigate today’s dynamic markets and identify opportunities that shape their portfolios and long-term investment goals. These global capabilities are extended to the world’s leading corporates, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, financial institutions, pension plans, endowments, foundations, individuals and family offices.

YOUR IMPACT

The Strategic Transformation Office (STO) plays a pivotal role within AWM, spearheading modernization efforts and fostering business growth. As a catalyst for large-scale, cross-functional transformations, STO directly empowers AWM to achieve our strategic objectives, by scaling our operating platform, enhancing client experiences, and fueling business expansion. This group comprises of four critical functions, including (1) Product Management & Design, (2) Change Management, (3) Sales Enablement and (4) Business Analytics. The AWM Risk & Regulatory Solutions team (part of Change Management) manages the risk & regulatory strategy and roadmap for the AWM business globally. The team has two key focus areas: 1) New Regulations & Industry mandates; assessing impact on business activities and implementation of changes 2) Risk Remediations; delivery of critical regulatory risk programs resulting from internal or external findings. In this role, you will closely collaborate with stakeholders across AWM, including Legal & Compliance, 1/2/3 LoD, COOs and business partners to triage, manage pipeline, assess and implement any disruptors in the non-discretionary space for the business. This is a high impact role with visibility across business units and functions within AWM.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Build a deep understanding of the Asset and Wealth Management business through analyzing the applicability and impact of regulatory policies and rules to each business area
• Simplify complex problems by collaborating with the team, key stakeholders, and regulatory experts within the firm
• Exert influence and impact, to drive business engagement and lead strategic cross-divisional discussions on regulatory change matters
• Deploy appropriate methodologies and governance tools, to drive the timely delivery of analysis and agreed solution approach (operational and technology driven)
• Build strong senior stakeholder relationships that will be required when performing complex analysis across multiple businesses

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience in regulatory solutions, management consulting or related field, with active involvement in risk & regulatory assessments and implementations
• Understanding of investment products and the wider asset management and/or wealth management operating model and ecosystems
• Strategic mindset with strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills to provide creative and innovative solutions
• Project Management experience including definition of business case and scope, articulation of issues, challenges, risks, dependencies and solutions
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Proven track record of supporting the design and execution of solutions for complex problems
• Multi-task and can manage and advance multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficiency in MS Office, PowerPoint, and Excel, with an ability to learn new tools quickly

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. Learn more 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.

©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, 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

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