Compliance, Global Privacy Office, Vice President, Dublin / Birmingham

OUR IMPACT

Our division prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm’s culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these through the firm’s enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firm’s second line of defense, Compliance assesses the firm’s compliance, regulatory and reputational risk; monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and leads the firm’s responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries. You'll be part of a team with members from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, such as law, accounting, sales, and trading. We look for those who possess sound judgment, curiosity, and are able to adapt to a changing regulatory landscape.

YOUR IMPACT

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Privacy Advisory team, supporting Ireland and European operations and be a member of Goldman Sachs’ Global Privacy Office (GPO). The successful candidate will work from Goldman Sachs’ Birmingham or Dublin office and provide expert advice on complex privacy matters to senior stakeholders across the firm. The candidate will also play a key role in collaborating with colleagues to further build out the firm’s privacy program to address the evolving regulatory landscape, enhance divisional collaboration and increase cross-functional engagement.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Privacy Advisory vice president with excellent analytical, communication and co-ordination skills to join the Global Privacy Office. This role will require you to develop a detailed knowledge of multiple areas within the firm and will include:

Leading the identification and strategic assessment of privacy risks and opportunities across the firms’ business lines, products and initiatives in Ireland and the wider European marketI

Identifying and executing opportunities to efficiently scale the firm’s global privacy program within European jurisdictions

Providing expert privacy advisory guidance to business, engineers, operations, compliance and other stakeholders to enable the delivery and development of privacy compliant business initiatives, including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI systems

Overseeing privacy risk assessment processes (including Data Protection Impact Assessments and AI-related impact assessments) and other operational aspects of the firm’s privacy compliance program

Reviewing and assessing products, features and business activities, including those that employ AI and AI-related technologies, against Irish and EU privacy requirements and standards

Counselling cross-functional project teams on the privacy implications of new initiatives and regulatory change programs

Monitoring and reporting to senior management on the status of the privacy program

Partnering with Legal, Compliance, Engineering, Risk and Business teams to research and assess the impact of new privacy and data protection laws or regulations (such as guidelines from the Irish Data Protection Commission and the European Data Protection Board), and managing the work to deliver required changes

Partnering with Engineering teams to identify and design new tools, or improve existing tools, that support the firm’s privacy compliance program

Promoting the development and implementation of privacy program governance frameworks with key stakeholders in Operations, Compliance, Technology, Legal and Risk

Promoting a culture of privacy risk accountability across the first line of defense through engagement, education and influence

Shaping and advising on privacy program policies and procedures, ensuring they reflect Irish regulatory expectations and business realities

Contributing to other activities within the Global Privacy Office where necessary

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent; legal degree is helpful

CIPP/E certification is highly preferred

At least 7 years of work experience, with at least 5 of those working in the Privacy or Data Protection domain

Experience with reviewing, advising and/or implementing programs to address privacy laws on a local and global level (e.g., EU GDPR, Irish Data Protection Act 2018, ePrivacy Regulations, EU AI Act, etc…)

Financial services experience is a plus, particularly within an Irish or EU-regulated entity

Required Skills

Highly motivated with the ability to work autonomously as well as in a team and collaboration-oriented environment

Highly organized, attention to detail and excellent follow through skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; risk-based prioritization

Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively articulate complex regulatory requirements to stakeholders and dependent teams at all levels of the firm

Able to coordinate activities with multiple interdependencies and to escalate items that are unresolved or at risk

Comfortable working with incomplete information, to ask focused questions and rapidly gain an in-depth understanding of the current processes and compare and relate to similar situations

Detailed problem tracking, resolutions and completion of all actions and issues by their deadlines

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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 TITLEVice President

OFFICE LOCATION(S)Dublin, Birmingham

JOB FUNCTIONBusiness Unit Compliance

DIVISIONCompliance Division