Controllers - Software Engineer - Vice President - London

Controllers - Software Engineer - Vice President - London Job Description

Controllers Engineering is responsible for designing and implementing solutions that support financial measurement and reporting, including revenue, balance sheet, liquidity and capital. We also help meet the firm's global regulatory financial reporting obligations and build tools that drive efficiency and consistency across controller functions.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end systems development in an Agile environment, from requirements analysis through coding, testing, UAT, implementation and maintenance.
• Produce technical designs, testing strategies and implementation plans.
• Partner with Finance stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into process workflows, data requirements and specifications.
• Build reusable solutions and identify opportunities for cross-divisional collaboration.
• Contribute to data modelling and curation.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Strong analysis and design skills, plus knowledge of data structures, algorithms and performance-oriented design.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences, and comfortable working with multiple global stakeholders.

Expert Knowledge in One Or More Of

• Hands-on programming experience in Java or Python
• Significant solutions architecture and system design experience
• Experience of using Agentic AI coding tools - e.g. Claude Code, Co-Pilot Agent Mode, Devin
• Experienced with Cloud Technologies - ideally AWS - e.g. S3, SQS, Lambda, Fargate
• Strong RDBMS knowledge
• Experience developing distributed, micro services-based applications.
• Experience with data modelling and curation for large-scale datasets

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge or interest in investment banking or financial instruments
• Experience with big data concepts, such as Lakehouse, ETL data pipelines (e.g. Spark, AWS Glue)
• Experience with near real time and event-based systems like Kafka

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

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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 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.

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

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).

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

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