One of Goldman Sachs’ most senior back-office executives in London is swapping the UK capital for Hong Kong after being promoted to the firm’s Asia-Pacific operations department, according to an internal memo seen by Financial News.

Denise Wyllie became head of the Federation for Asia-Pacific, the part of Goldman's structure that deals with non-revenue generating parts of the business such as operations and compliance, in January, according to a memo dated December 16.