Human Capital Management - Executive Compensation - Analyst - Birmingham Birmingham · United Ki[...]

Opportunity Overview sitemap_outline CORPORATE TITLE Analyst language OFFICE LOCATION(S) Birmingham assignment JOB FUNCTION Executive Compensation account_balance DIVISION Human Capital Management Division

Our division recruits, develops and rewards the people of Goldman Sachs. Our teams advise, design and implement strategies, processes and technologies that help our people advance professionally, drive productivity and help the firm and our clients achieve superior results. We look for individuals with strong problem solving and analytical skills, innovative thinking and intellectual curiosity who want to make an impact on the success of the firm’s most valuable asset, our people.

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The Executive Compensation team is responsible for a wide and varied remit which includes regulatory reporting, remuneration disclosures, remuneration governance, and responding to the European remuneration regulations. The team also manages other key activities such as assisting with the public disclosure of Directors Emoluments, dealing with senior employee compensation matters and handling employee equity queries, in addition to a variety of firmwide projects and initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The successful individual will be involved in the following activities:

• Preparation / review of regulatory submissions
• Determination of Material Risk Taker population
• Preparation / review of public remuneration disclosures
• Drafting responses to regulatory queries
• Preparation of materials for remuneration committee meetings
• Involvement in ad hoc projects as required to respond to changes in remuneration rules
• Involvement in director’s emoluments reporting
• Other annual executive remuneration processes
• Coordinate with colleagues in the Firmwide Compensation team – together with other departments such as Equity Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Controllers, Legal and Tax

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

To be successful in performing and developing within this role, you will need to demonstrate exposure and experience in the majority of the following areas:

• Circa 1-3 years’ reward, compensation or tax experience, ideally within a Financial or Professional Services environment
• Awareness of Executive Compensation practices and European remuneration regulations would be an advantage
• Good communication and relationship management skills – ability to understand and articulate complex issues
• Excellent analytical skills – an ability to review current processes and/or data, detect and correct errors, take responsibility for data quality
• Project management – prioritize workload and meet deadlines
• Ability to understand and consider requirements of Firmwide functions, divisions and regions
• Client service focus, notable responsiveness and a \”can-do\” attitude
• Good judgment – knowing when to escalate an issue combined with a willingness to be flexible
• Thorough attention to detail

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Functional Expertise – keeps up to date with emerging business, economic, and market trends
• Technical Skills – demonstrates strong technical skills required for the role, pays attention to detail, takes initiative to broaden knowledge and demonstrates appropriate financial/analytical skills
• Drive and Motivation – successfully handles multiple tasks, takes initiative to improve own performance, works intensely towards extremely challenging goals and persists in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Client and Business Focus – effectively handles difficult requests, builds trusting, long-term relationships with clients, helps the client to identify/define needs and manages client/business expectations
• Teamwork – gives evidence of being a strong team player, collaborates with others within and across teams, encourages other team members to participate and contribute and acknowledges others\’ contributions
• Communication Skills – communicates what is relevant and important in a clear and concise manner and shares information/new ideas with others
• Judgement and Problem solving – thinks ahead, anticipates questions, plans for contingencies, finds alternative solutions and identifies clear objectives. Sees the big picture and effectively analyses complex issues

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.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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.

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

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.

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