Legal, Private Wealth Management Lawyer, Executive Director, Frankfurt Frankfurt · Germany · Vi[...]

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.

THE LEGAL DIVISION

The Goldman Sachs Legal Division spans offices across 37 cities worldwide, from which we provide counsel and advice to support the global activities of the firm and our clients. Our focus is on providing the highest quality legal advice while managing regulatory and reputational risk.

OUR DIVISION’S CULTURE

As a division, we are focussed on our people and their development and are committed to creating an environment that is diverse and inclusive. We offer numerous training and career development opportunities including a weekly legal training programme, division mentoring schemes and a people development committee tasked with providing tangible tools to help manage and develop careers. The division also has several active and varied committees including the Diversity, Pro Bono, Innovation, Charity and Social Committees and encourages participation in the Women’s, Black and LGBT firmwide affinity networks.

EMEA WEALTH MANAGEMENT LEGAL TEAM

The EMEA Wealth Management Legal team provides legal support to Private Wealth Management (PWM) and Goldman Sach’s EMEA consumer deposits business (which operates under the “Marcus” brand).

PWM and Marcus are part of the Asset and Wealth Management Division of Goldman Sachs.

• PWM provides a comprehensive range of investment services, including discretionary investment management, investment advice, brokerage services and lending, to wealthy individuals and families worldwide, across a diversified range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, structured products, derivatives, hedge funds and other alternative investments.
• Marcus offers a variety of competitive savings products to help meet the needs of its retail customers and to help them reach their financial goals.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

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.
• Have strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the proven desire to work on a high-performing team.

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. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

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