Risk, Analytics and Reporting, Vice President, Dallas

Background

Analytics & Reporting (A&R) is a group within Risk Engineering in the Risk Division of Goldman Sachs. The group ensures the firm's senior leadership, investors and regulators have a complete view of the positional, market, and client activity drivers of the firm's risk profile allowing them to take actionable and timely risk management decisions.

Risk Engineering is a multidisciplinary group of quantitative experts who are the authoritative producers of independent risk & capital metrics for the firm. Risk Engineering is responsible for modeling, producing, reviewing, interpreting, explaining and communicating risk & capital metrics and analytics used to ensure the firm adheres to its Risk Appetite and maintains the appropriate amount of Risk Capital. Risk Engineering provides risk & capital metrics, analytics and insights to the Chief Risk Officer, senior management, regulators, and other firm stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

A&R delivers critical regulatory and risk metrics, analytics, and materials across risk domains (market, credit, liquidity, operational, capital). Delivery spans recurring reporting, bespoke risk analyses, systematically generated risk reporting and internal risk tools. A&R's remit includes data engineering, business intelligence, data analysis, and project/program management. With a unique vantage point across the firm's risk data flows and a deep understanding of client and market activity, A&R designs scalable workflows, processes, and controls that convert raw data into actionable risk insights.

In this position, we are looking for a candidate who can:

• Drive portfolio execution and team effectiveness by managing multiple complex projects concurrently, defining scope, milestones and priority on requests, and executing effective governance and controls for production ready reporting
• Speak professionally and persuasively to senior leaders about the intersection of technology and risk processes through translating technical concepts into business and regulatory impact
• Mentor junior employees on technical rigor, documentation, and time management
• Promote creativity and scalability in each process to improve consistency and speed
• Orchestrate cross-functional alignment through coordination with Risk Engineering, Technology, and business partners to advocate for A&R's needs including realistic timelines, identifying and removing blockers and manage critical paths
• Attest to the quality, timeliness and completeness of the underlying data and technologies used to produce these analytics
• Present insightful board-level non-financial risk analyses, translating complex data into strategic insights and actionable recommendations.
• Employ advanced data visualization (dashboards, heat maps) to clearly convey non-financial risk exposures and control effectiveness to senior leadership.
• Apply advanced analytics tools (e.g., Tableau, SQL, Alteryx) to analyze non-financial risk data, automate reporting, and generate insights for improved risk management.

Qualifications, Skills & Aptitude

Eligible candidates are preferred to have the following:

• Masters or Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, physics, econometrics, computer science or engineering.
• Entrepreneurial, analytically creative, self-motivated and team-oriented.
• Excellent written, verbal and team-oriented communication skills.
• Experience with programming for extract transform load (ETL) operations and data analysis (including performance optimization) using languages such as, but not limited to, Python, Java, C++, SQL and R.
• Experience in developing data visualization and business intelligence solutions using tools such as, but not limited to, Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, and front-end technologies and languages.
• Working knowledge of the financial industry, markets and products and associated non-financial risk.
• Working knowledge of mathematics including statistics, time series analysis and numerical algorithms.
• [Vice President] 5+ years of financial or non-financial risk industry experience.