Asset & Wealth Management - Platform Management Analyst - London

Asset & Wealth Management - Platform Management Analyst - London

Job Description

Platform Management Overview

The Alternatives Portfolio Management Group is dedicated to optimizing investor performance and experience. The Platform Management team, within the Portfolio Management group, is focused on driving day-to-day portfolio decision-making. The Platform Management team partners with investment teams, capital markets, engineering and investor relations to achieve superior outcomes for AWM's clients. Platform Management consists of two roles:

Fund Management : responsible for developing and executing liquidity strategies across private market portfolios, managing capital activity, analyzing deal allocations, recommending optimal deployment of investable capital in line with fund and firm guidelines, and conducting performance attribution analysis.

Deal & Structuring Management : responsible for the ownership and maintenance of complex fund structures, including cash movement, deal allocations, foreign currency management, deal execution, and pipeline management.

Key Responsibilities and Activities

Perform daily liquidity management and prepare forecasts to evaluate current and projected funding needs. Develop liquidity recommendations and collaborate with stakeholders to execute capital activity and leverage facility actions.

• Conduct attribution analysis to break down historical portfolio returns and drive improvements in performance and risk management.

Monitor investment guidelines and concentration limits, evaluate investment pacing, and analyze investable capital across actively investing funds and separately managed accounts.

Partner with cross-functional teams to advise on fundraising and fund structure creation.

Track, report, and analyze detailed performance metrics.

Facilitateportfolio allocations, deal execution, deal closing, and harvesting activities. Partner with internal groups and external advisors to resolve legal, compliance, tax, accounting and operational matters.

Drive fund and investment rebalancing across new fund launch closes.

Coordinate with the fund management team on capital calls, cash distributions, and investor and regulatory reporting on fund performance.

Support ad hoc requests from senior management, including data management, reporting and presentations.

Assist in responding to compliance and regulatory inquiries.

Create management presentations and prepare analyses in support of ad hoc requests.

Support and advance technology initiatives related to the above responsibilities.

Required Experience

1-4 years of experience in a financial services setting

Strong analytical orientation

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work across internal and external teams
• Financial acumen to prepare cash flows and performance metrics that impact investor returns and product performance.
• Self-starter with strong desire to succeed in a fast paced, high pressure, results driven environment

Strong judgment and problem-solving skills

Ability to work independently in a small team, exhibit initiative and be proactive

Collaborative team player

Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills

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 GS.com/careers.

• Locations London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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.
• 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.

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