Internal Audit, Global Markets Division Auditor, Associate/ Vice President, Birmingham
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Job Description
In Internal Audit, we ensure that Goldman Sachs maintains effective controls by assessing the reliability of financial reports, monitoring the firm’s compliance with laws and regulations, and advising management on developing smart control solutions. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry and its products and operations. We’re looking for detail-oriented team players who have an interest in financial markets and want to gain insight into the firm’s operations and control processes.
The primary role of Internal Audit is to help protect the assets, reputation and sustainability of the organization. We ensure that Goldman Sachs maintains effective controls by assessing the reliability of financial reports, monitoring the firm’s compliance with laws and regulations, and advising management on developing smart control solutions. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry and its products and operations. IA assists the firm’s Board of Directors Audit Committee in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities and regularly interacts with the external independent auditors.
The IA Global Markets team in Birmingham is responsible for auditing Global Markets business areas, its products across Fixed Income and Equities, and supporting functions within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. We are looking for detail-oriented team players who have an interest in financial markets and want to gain insight into firm’s operations and control processes and learn more about Global Markets
HOW YOU WILL FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL
- Collaborate and work as a team across IA Global Markets, IA and Goldman Sachs
- Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of Global Markets, its products, and supporting functions
- Use and develop data analytics (DA)/computer assisted audit tools and techniques to assist in execution of audits and risk assessment
- Assist in every step of an audit, including documentation, across scoping, planning, fieldwork and reporting
- Performing walkthroughs with stakeholders to perform control design assessments and presenting results of work performed to management
- Execute audit testing to ensure audit fieldwork is focused on the right areas and documentation meets high quality standards
- Identify risks, assess mitigating controls, and make recommendations on improving the control environment
- Prepare commercially effective audit conclusions and findings, and present to Internal Audit senior management and business stakeholders
- Follow-up on open audit issues and their resolution
- Participate in department-wide initiatives aimed at continually improving Internal Audit’s processes and supporting infrastructure
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Approximately 7 years + of prior experience in auditing controls. This could be in an IA team, or consulting, regulatory body or a related control function, with controls testing as part of your role, i.e. compliance testing group or a risk and control team.
- Project management experience, including oversight and leadership of junior staff
- Thorough understanding of Risk Management (Market, Credit, Liquidity, Operational and Model Risk Management) and financial products
- Knowledge of financial markets rules and regulations (CFTC, FINRA, Volcker, SEC, etc.)
- Team-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability and able to work under minimal supervision on individual tasks or on team projects
- Accurate, accountable and able to multitask while managing both time and work load
- Highly motivated with strong analytical skills, willing and able to learn new business and system processes quickly
- Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g., ACA, CAMS, CIA, CFA) is a plus
- Graduate degree, preferably in a related subject, science and humanity degrees as well as more specific accountancy or economics degrees will be considered
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. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
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.
Job Info
- Job Identification 157241
- Job Category Vice President
- Posting Date 04/15/2026, 02:07 PM
- Locations Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Healthcare & Medical Services
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
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
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).
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.
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