Asset & Wealth Management, AM Private, Structured Investing, Associate, London London · United [...]

Asset & Wealth Management, AM Private, Structured Investing, Associate, London location_on London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

OUR IMPACT

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

YOUR IMPACT

Structured Investing is a globalmulti-disciplinary front office structuring teamwithin Asset and Wealth Management (“AWM ”) specializing in optimizing the Firm’s investing and lending activities as well as its funding and legal entity structure and strategy. The team focuses on originating, structuring and executing transactions that affect the Firm’s global tax, regulatory and accounting positions as well as AWM’s funding profile. We work on transactions with deal teams across AWM and the rest of the Firm, as well as originate and execute our own transactions. This is a creative, analytical and execution-focused team, comprised of people with diverse structuring backgrounds who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work independently on the development, approvals, execution, and ongoing maintenance of transactions and initiatives that have an impact on the Firm’s tax, regulatory and accounting positions
• Model the financial statement impact and economic benefits of the proposed transactions
• Create presentation materials to brief internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with internal functions to progress proposed transactions through the required governance and approvals processes
• Liaise with external advisers and internal teams on the preparation, review, and execution of transaction documents
• Work on the ongoing maintenance and risk management of transactions post-execution, including maintenance of the deal models and coordination with the Firm’s Finance and Accounting teams to monitor and report ongoing economic impact of transactions
• Work as the face of the business when dealing with internal groups and external advisors to help resolve any compliance, operational, legal, tax, accounting and funding issues
• Assist with structured funding initiatives, including external rating of AWM investments
• Develop the team’s know-how around tax, accounting, funding and capital structuring

REQUIREMENTS

• Candidates should have at least a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification
• Ability to work on multiple tasks with a high attention to detail
• 3 – 5 years of financial services/accounting/tax experience that includes transaction execution
• Well-versed in the tax, accounting, and regulatory capital aspects of transactions
• Robust understanding of the components and applications of financial instruments
• Strong problem solving, quantitative, and excel modelling skills
• Must be able to work independently with minimum direct supervision
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrable ability to articulate complex concepts to a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Strong team player

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.

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 Insurance

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.

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 Services

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).

Child Care & Family Care

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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