ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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Your tasks

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The Executive Compensation team is responsible for a wide and varied remit which includes regulatory reporting, remuneration disclosures, remuneration governance, and responding to the European remuneration regulations. The team also manages other key activities such as assisting with the public disclosure of Directors Emoluments, dealing with senior employee compensation matters and handling employee equity queries, in addition to a variety of firmwide projects and initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The successful individual will be involved in the following activities:

• Preparation / review of regulatory submissions to EU regulators
• Determination of Material Risk Taker population
• Preparation / review of public remuneration disclosures like Pillar 3
• Drafting responses to regulatory queries
• Preparation of materials for remuneration committee meetings
• Involvement in ad hoc projects as required to respond to changes in remuneration rules
• Other annual executive remuneration processes
• Coordinate with colleagues in the Firmwide Compensation team - together with other departments such as Equity Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Controllers, Legal and Tax

Your profile

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

To be successful in performing and developing within this role, you will need to demonstrate exposure and experience in the majority of the following areas:

• Graduates: degree in economics, business, law or other relevant area. First experiences via relevant internships in financial institutions or consultancies/advisory firms
• Experienced hires: Circa 1-3 years’ reward, compensation, compliance, risk, finance or tax experience, ideally within a Financial or Professional Services environment
• Awareness of Executive Compensation practices and European remuneration regulations would be an advantage
• Good communication and relationship management skills - ability to understand and articulate complex issues
• Excellent analytical skills - an ability to review current processes and/or data, detect and correct errors, take responsibility for data quality
• Project management - prioritize workload and meet deadlines, “own the project plan” and drive the project
• Ability to understand and consider requirements of Firmwide functions, divisions and regions
• Client service focus, notable responsiveness and a 'can-do' attitude
• Good judgment - knowing when to escalate an issue combined with a willingness to be flexible
• Strong Excel skills required
• Thorough attention to detail

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Functional Expertise - keeps up to date with emerging business, economic, and market trends
• Technical Skills - demonstrates strong technical skills required for the role, pays attention to detail, takes initiative to broaden knowledge and demonstrates appropriate financial/analytical skills
• Drive and Motivation - successfully handles multiple tasks, takes initiative to improve own performance, works intensely towards extremely challenging goals and persists in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Client and Business Focus - effectively handles difficult requests, builds trusting, long-term relationships with clients, helps the client to identify/define needs and manages client/business expectations
• Teamwork – gives evidence of being a strong team player, collaborates with others within and across teams, encourages other team members to participate and contribute and acknowledges others' contributions
• Communication Skills - communicates what is relevant and important in a clear and concise manner and shares information/new ideas with others
• Judgement and Problem solving - thinks ahead, anticipates questions, plans for contingencies, finds alternative solutions and identifies clear objectives. Sees the big picture and effectively analyses complex issues

We offer

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.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.