Risk, Liquidity Risk, Vice President, Tokyo
About the role
RISK
The mission of Risk Division is to effectively identify, monitor, evaluate and manage the firm’s financial and operational risks (including reputation risk) in support of the firm’s strategic plan, and in a manner consistent with the objectives set out in the firm’s Board-approved Risk Appetite Statement. Through comprehensive processes, which include critical analysis, evaluating stress scenarios, dynamically managing risk, and prudently balancing risk and reward, the Risk Division plays a critical 2nd line of defense role.
FINANCE RISK (FR)
Finance Risk is the independent risk management function responsible for identifying, quantifying, and managing the liquidity risk, capital risk and interest rates risk of the firm. We work closely with Corporate Treasury, Controllers, Operations, Revenue Divisions, and the broader Risk organization to provide independent risk assessment and oversight of the firm’s liquidity risk taking. Key functions include:
Stress Testing: Methodology development, model creation and governance, assumption review and approval, and risk measurement
Regulatory Stress Metrics, Liaison, & Advocacy: Calculation and disclosure of key regulatory stress metrics, guidance and rule interpretation, engagement with global regulators, and policy advocacy
Risk Appetite & Limit Setting: Setting finance risk appetite, calibration of risk limits, sign-off on limits frameworks, and ongoing monitoring of limit utilization and remediation
Governance & Reviews: Ongoing evaluation of compliance with key regulatory regimes, new activity impact assessments and approvals, engagement with key committees and governing bodies, and maintenance of key policies and procedures
Risk Oversight: Monitor, govern, and challenge various liquidity and funding execution activities, including cash & collateral management, funds transfer pricing, balance sheet usage, liquidity and funding projections, and liability management
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Engage directly with the risk taking businesses to understand strategy, assess new activities, enforce limits, comply with regulatory requirements, and challenge desk proposals
Direct engagement with the Chief Risk Officer and global regulators regarding material risks, current risk exposures, and limits governance
Monitor risk taking and limit utilization; engage in breach remediation, and escalation workflow, propose appropriate risk treatment across internal stress testing and regulatory reporting requirements for existing and new business activities
Work with engineering teams to model liquidity risks under various stress scenarios; propose, calibrate, and implement appropriate assumptions
Skills / Expertise
Strong academic background and quantitative skills
Japanese language proficiency is a must, as the role involves regular and ad-hoc engagement with the Japanese regulators
Prior experience in financial industry across Treasury, Finance, Risk functions is preferred
Prior experience of working closely with global regulators is a plus
Interest in financial markets and risk management, motivated by learning and continuous improvement
Ability to work independently, form own judgment/opinions, provide insights and drive change
Proactive with strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills and ability to build relationships remotely
Ability to interact with and build relationships with people from different departments and levels of seniority
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. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
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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.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
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CORPORATE TITLEVice President
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OFFICE LOCATION(S)Minato-Ku
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JOB FUNCTIONLiquidity Risk
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DIVISIONRisk Division
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