WHO WE ARE

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centres around the world.

We welcome people from a variety of academic backgrounds and personal interests.
We are looking for an experienced, motivated and innovative lawyer, who is interested in a technically challenging and rewarding advisory role. The ideal candidate will have experience of some or all of the following areas: consumer products and markets, online banking platforms and services, payments and other investor products and platforms. Experience in financial regulation (including with respect to retail markets) and wealth management is also desirable.

The successful candidate will:

• Advise PWM and Marcus on all aspects of the client relationship from client pitches through to the onboarding journey, structuring of accounts and account opening procedures, negotiation of account documentation and investment restrictions, and support on client or transaction-specific questions.
• Advise PWM and Marcus on a variety of business issues, including new business initiatives, customer servicing and communications, and changes to existing product and service offerings.
• Advise on marketing, operations resiliency and related risks, technology and operations incidents, regulatory notifications and other interactions with regulators, and complaints
• Advise on a wide range of regulatory topics across the UK and EU, such as interpretation of new and existing regulations and assessment of the impact of regulations to our business activities, advising on complex cross-border questions.
• Analyse and advise product specialists in PWM and Marcus on all aspects of product development and documentation.
• Liaise with other lawyers in the Goldman Sachs Legal Division globally as well as other relevant groups throughout the firm, including compliance, controllers (including regulatory controllers), trading, product origination, marketing, operations, business and organisational leadership and tax.
• Liaise with outside counsel on a broad range of domestic and cross-border jurisdictional issues.
• Have a minimum of 4 years post qualification experience.
• Be a UK qualified lawyer.
• Have strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the proven desire to work on a high-performing team.