Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Alternatives Capital Formation Analyst (Private Equit[...]

About Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $2 trillion in assets under supervision. As a 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.

Alternatives Capital Formation (ACF)

ACF is a part of the Client Solutions Group (CSG) within Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). ACF manages capital raising and strategy for alternatives investments across the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, growth equity, sustainability, secondaries, GP stakes, and hedge funds / liquid alternatives. Within ACF, team members work within distinct product verticals and partner with investment teams, CSG, and wealth management, to drive and identify solutions for clients. This specific role sits with ACF’s Private Equity vertical.

• Support product specialists within Private Equity with all aspects of the marketing and fundraising cycle for Private Equity funds.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across ACF, client advisors / sales team, fund finance, fund management, legal, and compliance to develop and execute product strategy, track progress and drive engagement on progress with target investors.
• Produce and update materials for investors, including marketing presentations, update calls and videos, educational content, performance and data analysis; build market intelligence to thoughtfully contribute to construction of these items and effective distribution of relevant funds.
• Select interaction with new and existing clients on due diligence inquiries, portfolio updates, ongoing investor requests and client meetings.
• Help to complete due diligence questionnaires, support the fulfilment of investor inquiries, and manage and organise data rooms; prioritise and manage workflow in the context of multiple competing priorities.
• Collaborate directly with the Investment team to build understanding of the portfolio, analyse key metrics and identify effective messaging for investor communications about relevant funds, investments, the business, the market environment, and competitive positioning.
• Effectively articulate to internal and external stakeholders the investment strategy and role within an investment portfolio of relevant GS Private Equity strategies.
• Respond to questions from senior management and sales channels internally (private wealth, institutional, third-party distribution) related to the platform.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• 0-1 years of experience in a similar or related role, previous experience in Investment Banking or Investing also applicable.
• Excellent communication (written and oral), analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong judgement and problem-solving capabilities.
• Attention to detail with proven experience of delivering high levels of accuracy.
• Flexibility to handle multiple tasks and work well in high pressure situations.
• Strong organisational skills to manage production of a high volume of quality work within tight timeframes, often including multiple simultaneous projects.
• Teamwork orientation and self-motivation, demonstrating a willingness to take on more responsibility over time.
• Ability to generate new ideas and consider ways to improve existing processes to create efficiencies and support growth.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills, and a natural curiosity for dissecting and understanding financial datasets.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, and fluency in the use of AI and LMM tooling.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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.