Internal Audit - Core Engineering, Blockchain/Digital Assets, Vice President - Dallas

Goldman Sachs - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Senior

Dallas, TX

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Vice President of Internal Audit for Core Engineering, Blockchain/Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs is responsible for assessing the firm's internal control structure, particularly in relation to digital assets. This role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance with regulations and effective risk management, while also developing expertise in digital assets within the firm.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an in-depth understanding of Digital Assets including related business activities, relevant regulations and underlying infrastructure (distributed ledger technology).
• Work closely with audit colleagues who cover traditional finance related areas and provide subject matter expertise on Digital Asset related activities.
• Assess new Digital Asset activities within the firm and actively discuss with internal and external stakeholders on potential risk, mitigating controls, and findings resulting from audit engagements.
• Perform walkthroughs with stakeholders to perform control design assessments and presenting results of work performed to management.
• Prepare commercially effective and practical audit conclusions and findings, and present to Internal Audit senior management and business stakeholders.
• Follow-up on open audit issues and their resolution.
• Contribute to the Internal Audit Digital Assets coverage strategy.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience with blockchain technology e.g. from a developer perspective building products or applications using blockchain.
• Ability to identify and articulate risks and potential failure points throughout system architecture.
• Deep understanding of software development and system architecture.
• High-level understanding of databases, operating systems, and messaging.
• Proficiency in Excel and SQL.
• Ability to review code (Java, C#, C++, Python, VBA macros etc.).
• Relevant certification or industry accreditation (e.g., Blockchain Council, Chainalysis, CISA, CISSP, CISM, CFA, FRM, etc.).
• Degree in computer science or quantitative discipline.

Nice-to-haves

• Data and Log Analysis (using SQL and Splunk) and visualization (using Spotfire, Tableau, QlikView or other) would be useful but not required.
• Other plusses might include: cloud computing, web infrastructure security and design.

Benefits

• Collaborative workspaces and ergonomic services.
• Wellbeing and resilience offerings.
• Flexibility and support for personal and professional goals.