Brazil Compliance, Surveillance Compliance, Associate, Sao Paulo
Role Overview
This position is for an Associate within the Surveillance Compliance team in Brazil. The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring transactions across Goldman Sachs' trading desks and developing scenarios to prevent market abuse, money laundering, and terrorist financing.
Main Responsibilities
* Trade Monitoring: Execute daily monitoring of transactions across multiple trading desks to ensure regulatory adherence.
* Scenario Optimization: Design, implement, and refine surveillance models to identify potential market manipulation and financial crimes.
* Global Collaboration: Liaise with global trade surveillance units to align local practices with international standards.
* Investigations: Lead the investigation, identification, and escalation of potential cases of market misconduct or money laundering to senior management.
* Regulatory Reporting: Assist in preparing reports for local regulators (CVM/Bacen) regarding suspicious activities.
Prerequisites
* Experience: 3-4 years of relevant experience in Financial Institutions, preferably within Compliance or Risk Management.
* Language: Fluency in English (both written and oral) is mandatory for global interaction.
* Analytical Mindset: Strong investigative skills with a data‑driven approach to problem‑solving.
* Technical Expertise: Previous experience with surveillance systems such as SMARTS, Actimize, BTCA, or SAGE.
* Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python and VBA is highly desirable to automate surveillance tasks.
* Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with Brazilian financial regulations (CVM and Bacen).
Benefits
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 Services
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Job Info
* Job Identification
* Job Category Associate
* Posting Date 05/22/2026, 05:20 PM
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