Tax – Tax Operations – Embedded Risk Manager – Associate – Bengaluru

• Tax – Tax Operations – Embedded Risk Manager – Associate – Bengaluru
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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CORPORATE TITLE

Associate

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OFFICE LOCATION(S)

Bengaluru

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JOB FUNCTION

Tax Processing

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DIVISION

Tax

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YOUR IMPACT

Are you passionate about risk management and looking to make a significant impact within a dynamic environment? We are seeking an Associate to join our Embedded Risk Management team within Tax Operations, focusing on enhancing our operational risk profile.

OUR IMPACT

Tax analyzes and supports the activities, operations, reporting obligations and transactions of the firm’s business lines to ensure that tax consequences and reputational risks are evaluated appropriately. Our work contributes directly to the firm’s success, and the division is ideal for creative and collaborative individuals who have strong ethics and attention to detail.

Tax Operations is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the firm’s compliance with reporting authorities around the globe and managing related inquiries from a variety of the firm’s businesses across established and emerging markets. Our Embedded Risk Management team plays a critical role in continuously measuring and assessing operational risks within these processes, ensuring a robust control environment and proactive risk mitigation. We partner across Tax Operations to identify, analyze, and address potential risks, contributing directly to the firm's regulatory adherence and operational excellence.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

Advise, challenge, and inform Tax Operations teams on recommended ways to mitigate risk; review actions to ensure risk is sufficiently addressed.

Act as a culture carrier by embedding a risk mindset and awareness of the firm's Risk Framework amongst staff.

Identify ways to share risk best practices across Tax Operations functions and with other business lines where similar processes or risk exposures exist.

Run regular risk meetings to review the exception landscape across business units, asking probing questions to establish potential operational risks within workflows.

Lead coordination across teams during significant events (e.g., regulatory changes, system incidents) to manage information exchange and triage emerging risks.

Challenge the status quo and the existing control framework to continuously enhance the control environment and improve the risk profile.

Partner with Operations teams and Engineering to understand residual risks, apply lessons learned, and improve our risk and control framework.

Perform risk analysis by working with regional and functional groups to develop key risk indicators (KRIs) for monitoring operational risk. Use KRIs to drive the risk agenda with leadership and develop remediation plans.

Support the Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) process, ensuring quarterly reviews accurately reflect the current risk environment and quality of operational controls.

Work closely with other risk managers across locations to share key initiatives and develop integrated risk solutions.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years relevant work experience in Operations, Finance, Risk Management, or a related field.
• Strong control mindset with a passion for risk management and enhancing control environments.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with various stakeholders across Tax Operations and other divisions.
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to understand complex workflows, identify control weaknesses, and excellent attention to detail.
• Innovative, with a keen eye for identifying areas of control enhancements, process optimization, and automation.
• Ability to perform data analytics using metrics to identify trends and themes.
• Proven ability to prioritize workload, drive results, solve problems, and take accountability for deadlines/outcomes.
• Thrives in a team environment, possesses strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Remains composed under pressure, prioritizes, and makes decisions in a fast-paced environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior Operations related work experience or understanding of broker/dealer obligations.
• Knowledge of the Financial Industry and its operational processes.
• Project management skills.
• Risk management certifications (e.g., CERP).
• Tax knowledge would be a plus.
• Ability to translate regulatory guidance and design solutions for risk mitigation and to fulfill compliance mandates.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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 individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

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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