Compliance, ECO Risk Management, Vice President, Dallas

About the role

You'll be part of a team within the Enterprise Compliance Office – Risk Management, a group inside Global Compliance responsible for implementing and maintaining the firm’s integrated regulatory compliance program. This includes risk assessments, regulatory change management, policies, and training. The team ensures the firm’s compliance program aligns with applicable laws, rules, regulations, and evolving regulatory expectations.

We seek a legal or regulatory practitioner to drive our mission by applying legal analysis, regulatory subject matter expertise, and sound judgment to the design, execution, and governance of firmwide regulatory inventory and compliance risk management processes. The role demands excellent communication skills, close collaboration across Compliance, Legal, Risk, Engineering, and business stakeholders, and the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable program requirements for senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, implementation, and ongoing management of a strategic, sustainable firmwide regulatory inventory process for in-scope laws, rules, and regulations (“LRRs”).
• Apply legal and regulatory judgment to assess LRR scope, applicability, issuing authority, enforceability, and materiality in accordance with program standards.
• Review, draft, and challenge plain-language LRR and obligation summaries to promote accurate, consistent, and actionable understanding of regulatory requirements.
• Support regulatory inventory governance routines across Compliance and the firm, including preparation of senior-level materials, decision papers, and escalation content.
• Manage inventory content, including scope, regulatory source data, citations, summaries, attributes, and connectivity with firmwide systems, policies, controls, and risk taxonomies.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, and business stakeholders to interpret regulatory requirements and assess implications for the firm’s products, services, jurisdictions, regulated activities, and control environment.
• Align the regulatory inventory process with the broader regulations management strategy, including regulatory change management, traceability, policy mapping, and compliance risk assessment objectives.
• Identify opportunities to enhance legal and regulatory analysis through improved process design, data quality, automation, AI tooling, and sustainable governance controls.
• Support responses to regulatory examinations, inquiries, internal audit reviews, and other oversight activities by developing clear, well-supported explanations of program design, standards, and execution.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in financial services, legal, regulatory, compliance, risk management, or a comparable control function.
• Bachelor’s degree required; JD, LLM, or equivalent legal/regulatory qualification strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing, interpreting, and applying laws, rules, regulations, regulatory guidance, or supervisory expectations in a financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of compliance risk management program mandates, regulatory inventory, regulatory change, policy governance, controls, and/or obligations management.
• Ability to distill complex legal and regulatory requirements into concise, practical, and actionable summaries for business, Compliance, and senior management audiences.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and written communication skills, with strong attention to detail and a proven track record of execution against deadlines.
• Sound judgment and professional maturity, including the ability to identify issues, escalate appropriately, and provide credible challenge in a collaborative environment.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, including frequent interaction with Legal, Compliance, Risk, business, and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive priorities, operate independently, and demonstrate resiliency and creativity under pressure.
• MS Office proficiency; advanced knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel preferred.
• Comfort using AI tooling and data-enabled approaches to support legal, regulatory, and analytical reviews.

About the firm

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 opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development programs to benefits, wellness, and personal finance offerings.