Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Customised Fixed Income - Client Portfolio Manager, A[...]

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Customised Fixed Income - Client Portfolio Manager, Associate/Vice-President - London location_on London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Asset & Wealth Management Overview

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realise their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients.

Fixed Income & Liquidity Solutions Overview

Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions, within Public Investing, manages more than $1.8 trillion in assets for a variety of clients, including private wealth mandates and institutional clients such as insurance companies, pension funds, and endowments. The team has a long history of investing across public fixed income strategies including rates, currency, and credit on behalf of our clients. Investment ideas are created through collaboration between portfolio managers, research analysts, and traders.

Role Overview

We are seeking a candidate to join the GSAM Fixed Income Custom Fixed Income (CFI) team, a core partner to the Private Wealth Management (PWM) business and a key contributor to GSAM’s customised fixed income offering. The team manages a diverse suite of fixed income portfolios on behalf of Private clients across a variety of currencies in sovereigns and IG / HY corporates across a range of durations. The ideal candidate is passionate about fixed income markets, macroeconomics, portfolio management, investment implementation, and delivering a high-quality client experience. This role is suited to an individual who has client-facing experience and can discuss markets, macro-economic themes and portfolio positioning. They should also be able to coordinate across multiple stakeholders and solve problems at the intersection of investment management, guidelines, onboarding, and client service.

Responsibilities

• Interact with Private bankers and their clients to discuss macroeconomics, bond markets, portfolio positioning and performance, team views and the macro-outlook.
• Pitching GSAM CFI’s capabilities as well as the broader capabilities of the GSAM FI offering across mutual funds and ETFs.
• Oversee portfolio implementation, including cash deployment, duration alignment, liquidity considerations, and security eligibility checks across multiple SMA strategies.
• Act as a key partner to PWM teams ensuring they, and their underlying clients, have confidence in GSAM’s continuous portfolio oversight and that they receive timely market insight and portfolio commentary.
• Manage mandate guidelines and account-level restrictions, including approving changes, resolving discrepancies with operations, monitoring trading, and ensuring alignment across various firm systems.
• Coordinate cross-functionally across global GSAM Fixed Income teams, PWM, trading, operations, legal, compliance, onboarding, tax, and data teams to ensure mandates are launched, invested and monitored effectively.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of fixed income markets and macroeconomics.
• Client-facing experience and excellent communication skills, with the ability to conduct both sales and portfolio review meetings.
• Ability to manage complex workflows, operate under time pressure, and maintain a high standard of accuracy.
• Highly motivated, proactive, and able to work both independently and as part of a globally distributed team.

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.

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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