Marcus by Goldman Sachs, Third Party Risk and Resilience Manager, Vice President, London

OUR IMPACT

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking, and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our direct-to-consumer business provides digital solutions that help customers save and invest. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data, and design.

Marcus by Goldman Sachs

The firm's direct-to-consumer business, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, combines the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up with more than 150 years of experience. Today, we serve millions of customers across multiple products, leveraging innovative design, data, engineering, and other core capabilities to provide customers with powerful tools and products that are grounded in value, transparency, and simplicity.

YOUR IMPACT

Are you passionate about customer service? Do you have experience in delivering and designing training across large organizations? Do you have a background in risk management and controls operating in the 1st line? We're looking for a senior risk professional to support our business. Part of our first line risk team, you will play a crucial role in managing risk across our savings business.

What you'll do:

• You will lead the third-party risk management programme for Marcus UK; managing the firmwide vendor onboarding and risk management frameworks.
• Responsible for evaluating vendors, suppliers & business partners and managing the risks associated with third parties.
• Act as the central point of contact for all vendor-related activities, working with the relevant business area lead and ensuring that all vendors are managed effectively and efficiently for the UK business.
• Manage third and fourth party risks, and be responsible for business resilience for all vendors.
• Monitor vendor performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) and ensure that vendors are meeting their contractual obligations.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate vendor-related risks to protect the organization's reputation and assets.
• Collect and analyze vendor data to identify trends, opportunities for improvement, and cost saving.
• Develop and maintain positive and mutually beneficial relationships with vendors to enhance the customer experience.
• Ensure compliance with established policies, procedures and authority levels across multiple cross-functional teams and processes.
• Develop strategies to manage regulatory and operational risk, working in collaboration with 2nd and 3rd line teams to identify any risks and manage issues in line with agreed business policies.
• Provide support as part of a small team of risk professionals, driving the risk strategy along by ensuring all required activities are completed in accordance with the business risk framework.
• Complete ongoing risk assessments; analyzing existing risks along with new and emerging risks and identifying, describing and estimating the risks affecting the team and wider business.
• Work closely with global Risk teams to establish and quantify the risk appetite and ensure this is embedded into policies, procedures and controls.
• Conduct regular audits of policy and compliance to standards.
• Partner with Delivery and Training and Development to collect and analyze data from each audit/monitor activity and assist customer support teams with the development and implementation of appropriate corrective action plans, training tips, and team communication to improve overall quality results as necessary.
• Design appropriate and ongoing risk training materials and facilitate training across all the teams.
• Work with teams, and across the business to ensure the incident management and business continuity plans are well understood.

REQUIREMENTS

What we're looking for:

• In-depth product and regulatory knowledge across Banking and Savings within retail banking.
• Experience in third-party risk management and vendor relationship management, operating in the 1st line.
• Operational risk management experience.
• Excellent business analytical skills, with a good eye for detail.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to influence people.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, verbal and written communication skills.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, changing, start-up environment.
• Problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Good technical acumen: ability to understand the wider digital business architecture.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience within a risk team.
• In-depth understanding of operational and third-party risk within a regulated environment.
• Understanding of the UK financial services regulatory environment.
• In-depth knowledge of management, regulatory policies and legal requirements.

Desirable Qualifications

• Risk management within a retail banking environment.
• Degree in Finance or a related field preferred.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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