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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
The Regional Country Compliance (“RCC”) team in Tokyo Compliance is responsible for helping ensure that the firm manages and responds to regulatory inquiries, examinations and regulatory filings. As the liaison between the firm and its regulators on matters of regulatory compliance, RCC team members work closely with business, engineering, operations, risk, compliance and legal teams throughout the firm. The team is also responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining firmwide compliance frameworks and governance programs that support Japan-specific regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations across Goldman Sachs Japan entities such as policy governance, employee training, personal information protection, inter-affiliate outsourcing oversight including outsourcing arrangements among Goldman Sachs entities, regulatory change management, and other firmwide compliance initiatives. In the course of their work, a Vice President on the Tokyo RCC team will: Review, draft, and maintain local compliance policies; lead periodic policy reviews; and ensure alignment with evolving legal/regulatory requirements. Interface directly with regulators; prepare comprehensive written responses; coordinate regulatory meetings and inspections; and manage trade inquiry technology applications; thereby to build and maintain strong relationships with regulators. Advise internal stakeholders on regulatory expectations, findings, and control enhancements. Oversee Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) compliance (self-assessments, incident management, reporting) and review and assess inter-affiliate outsourcing arrangements and provide guidance on applicable compliance requirements; Coordinate and deliver firmwide compliance training programs, including material preparation and senior stakeholder engagement. Lead cross-divisional projects, regulatory remediation initiatives, governance enhancements, and control framework reviews. Handle regulatory filings including but not limited to licensing application or incident reporting, maintain detailed records of correspondence, monitor remediation undertakings, and prepare management/committee governance reporting. Note: RCC attaches high importance to in-person collaboration; this is an in-office role based in the firm’s Tokyo office.
- Bachelor’s degree; - At least 5 years of relevant work experience in Compliance, Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Risk Management, or related control functions; - Native-level fluency in Japanese and full professional fluency in English (oral and written); - Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); - Strong project management, time management, and cross-functional communication skills; - Familiarity with financial products/markets (equities, options, fixed income) and core regulatory and compliance risk management concepts.
- Graduate degree in law (JD/LLM), business (MBA), public policy, or a related field; - Significant experience representing financial institutions in regulatory interactions, exams, and inquiries; - Demonstrated experience in policy drafting, compliance training, PIPL management, or inter-affiliate outsourcing governance; - Experience leveraging emerging technologies/AI to optimize compliance workflows and governance frameworks.
- 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.
