Overview
In this role, you will lead the complaints function within Goldman Sachs’ wealth management support teams, driving timely, high-quality resolutions for customer concerns across channels. You will coach and develop complaints specialists, act as senior escalation for complex cases (including fraud), and partner with legal, compliance, and cross-functional teams to improve processes and risk controls. You’ll produce insights to reduce complaints and enhance customer advocacy, while maintaining audit-compliant procedures in a fast-paced environment. This position offers an opportunity to shape customer-centric operations at a leading global financial institution.
Responsibilities
- Oversee management and reporting of customer complaints (Executive Complaints and Financial Ombudsman)
- Provide leadership, coaching and development to complaints specialists
- Act as senior escalation point for complex inquiries and fraud cases with timely resolution
- Ensure timely acknowledgement and ongoing communication with customers during the process
- Manage end-to-end resolution of complaints within set timescales
- Collaborate with legal, compliance, and cross-functional teams to improve efficiency
- Provide regular/root cause complaint reports for management and regulatory purposes
- Maintain high focus on customer satisfaction while achieving business objectives
- Recommend process changes to reduce complaints and enhance experience
- Drive process enhancements, optimise resources, ensure audit-compliant procedures
- Identify tech enhancements impacting operations and assist in tech requirements
- Allocate workloads across channels for efficiency
- Conduct internal quality audits and support corrective actions
- Own risk controls for complaint processes and collaborate with risk managers
- Identify new issues/risks and implement controls
Key requirements
- Understanding of complaint regulations (e.g., DISP) and complaints management in a regulatory environment
- Self-directed, high-performance, able to work independently or in fast-paced teams
- Proven leadership by example and positive attitude
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Track record of delivering excellent customer experience and advocacy
- Strong customer focus and professional telephone manner
- Ability to lead teams and drive performance standards
- Leadership and staff development capability
- Desire to help others reach targets and develop skills
- Ability to set, meet and exceed targets
- Ability to manage change
- Minimum 5 years customer service experience (≥2 years in complaints)
- In-depth product knowledge across Banking and Savings in retail banking
- leadership
- communication
- problem-solving
- regulatory knowledge (DISP)
- root cause analysis
- quality assurance and audits
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