Legal, GBM Equities Cash Attorney, Vice President/Senior Legal Director

You will be a member of Global Markets Legal at a bulge bracket investment bank. You will work with your colleagues to address a broad and diverse range of legal and regulatory questions and issues that arise in connection with Goldman's core equities sales and trading businesses and associated business functions in the U.S., Canada and Latin America ("Americas").

In this role, you will be on the frontlines serving as a trusted advisor to the business and control-side colleagues and will have exposure to all aspects of a dynamic business. You will also play an important role in helping the firm navigate the evolving regulatory landscape and market structures in the Americas markets.

Your Responsibilities:

• Provide legal and regulatory advice to key stakeholders in the equities businesses pertaining to sales and trading operations of equities products including stocks, exchange-listed options, convertibles, American Depository Receipts ("ADRs"), exchange trades funds ("ETFs) and mutual fund shares, in Goldman's U.S., Canadian and Latin American equities markets operations.
• Serve as primary legal advisor in connection with development of new businesses, services and products and partner with key stakeholders to help understand and manage the potential legal and regulatory risks
• Assist in advocacy on a broad range of regulatory rulemaking from various oversight agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") and self-regulatory organizations ("SROs") such as the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange. Also assist in advocacy in connection with legislative rulemaking and policies.
• Collaborate with other control-side teams, including compliance, risk management, controllers operations and engineering to address relevant legal and regulatory requirements impacting equities sales and trading and developing policies and best practices.
• Assist legal and compliance teams in managing litigation and regulatory matters, internal and external audits and examinations.

Qualifications and Attributes:

• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility; thoughtful and detail-oriented
• Self-starter; capable of building and leveraging an internal network of resources and support
• Strong legal and business judgment, communication, writing and analytical skills
• 10+ years of relevant experience working with or at a financial institution, including relevant experience at a law firm, is preferred
• Knowledge of the U.S. securities law statutes and related regulations, such as Regulation NMS, Regulation ATS, Sections 13 and 16, Rule 15c3-5, Regulation SHO, FINRA and SRO rules is strongly preferred
• J.D. or comparable law degree from a competitive law school and licensed to practice law in at least one state

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $170000-$270000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

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.

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.

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