Internal Audit, Business Operations and Risk, Project Manager, Vice President, Salt Lake City

**Role – SLC – Vice President – Project Management – Business Operations & Risk Management Team**

Internal Audit (IA) supports the Audit Committee of the Board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities by independently assessing the firm’s internal control structure, raising awareness of control risk, providing advice to management in developing control solutions, and monitoring the implementation of management’s control measures.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

The Business Operations & Risk Management team (“the Team”) within IA reports into the divisional Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief of Staff (COS) to provide data-driven insights to support leadership in management of IA’s operating commitments. The Team partners with Business Unit Managers, Regional COOs and other non-audit teams to progress the division’s forward-looking business planning and strategic transformation initiatives. Primary functions of the Team include: (1) IA communications and administration (2) finance and resource management (3) IA process management (4) risk management and (5) team and divisional project management

This role is specific to the risk management and team and divisional project management functions, which cover the following key activities:

• Managing division’s compliance with firmwide risk management programs, including the division’s Business Continuity Plans and mandatory compliance training
• Serving as project management office for initiatives within the team and across the division related to IA’s operating commitments to the firm
• Coordinating regulatory requests of information owned by the Team
• Supporting broad scale improvement initiatives across the IA non-audit teams

Candidates should be comfortable with large datasets and are expected to develop adequate subject matter knowledge across the various IA operating data sets that are key in the initiatives they would project manage. Technology portfolio management experience is preferred, including project level experience with requirements gathering and testing.

**Business knowledge / Qualifications**

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in operational management or project management
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with excellent multi-tasking and follow-through ability
• Solutions and innovation minded, with ability to drive projects across cross-functional teams from initiation to closure, ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to effectively manage stakeholder relationships, mitigate risks, and optimize resources while aligning project outcomes with strategic organizational goals
• Experience with Smartsheet is a plus
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

**ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS**

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**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.

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Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLE

Vice President

OFFICE LOCATION(S)

Salt Lake City

JOB FUNCTION

Risk Governance

DIVISION

Internal Audit