Asset & Wealth Management Operations – Analyst – Alternative Fund Services – London London · Un[...]

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is seeking a professional individual who wants to develop their understanding of a growing sector of financial markets and be at the heart of the Asset Management Business with a key focus on Alternative Funds. This role requires a motivated individual to ensure accurate and timely execution of Fund launches and life‑cycle events on behalf of the firm and our clients. The ability to project manage fund launches and change events, stakeholder expectations, prioritise, meet deadlines and communicate to all levels of the organisation is critical to this role.

Your Impact

Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides innovative investment solutions to help our clients meet their financial goals. We work with client coverage and product teams around the globe to help our institutional and retail clients across various industries navigate changing markets and make smart investments. We value self‑starters with an entrepreneurial spirit, whilst providing the support and resources to ensure your success.

The Global Alternatives Fund Services team within Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management Operations is primarily responsible for:

• Facilitating new business and product expansion via project management of new fund launches.
• Ongoing platform maintenance via co‑ordination of fund mergers, fund terminations, restructures, other fund change events and regulatory uplifts.
• Acquisition integration through fund onboarding, consolidation and re‑structuring.

The Team interacts very closely with AWM Deal Teams, Sales, Portfolio Management, Capital Markets teams, and other numerous internal teams connected with design, setup, operation and oversight of the Funds. The role will be varied and will allow the candidate to interact with a wide range of internal and external teams and be involved in a diverse range of products and projects.

How You Will Fulfil Your Potential

You will effectively contribute towards the Asset & Wealth Management division product expansion initiatives by project‑managing fund launch and other fund change events for US and International funds. You will work closely and develop strong working relationships with the Portfolio Management, Product Development, Sales, Operations, external vendors and various other teams to determine product design, fund features and establishing support models. You will develop a strong understanding of our Asset Management Business, and the investment products on offer.

Your responsibilities for project managing and executing fund life‑cycle events such as fund launches, terminations and other fund restructure events will include, for example:

• Setting expectations for launch timelines and bringing together all internal and external working group stakeholders.
• Managing the fund event workflow utilizing in‑house workflow tools.
• Engaging in discussions to tackle various challenges in order to effectively meet design, portfolio manager and client needs.
• Facilitating internal systems and external system setups.
• Drafting and agreeing investment trade flows making sure all Operational systems are ready for trading.
• Defining and getting approval for seed capital requirements.
• Obtaining internal and external fund and share class identifiers.
• Ensuring fund registration & governance requirements are in place prior to fund launch.

You will lead or assist with various projects including technology initiatives to uplift our infrastructure, driving workflow scalability, improving controls and reducing time to market.

You will make a good impression by:

• Being proactive
• Being curious
• Effectively managing risk
• Building personal relationships

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 1‑3 years of experience.
• Experience in Asset Management, exposure to alternative funds or program management preferred though not required.
• Must work well in a team but also exhibit strong leadership capabilities in order to help drive solutions to complex issues.
• Attention to detail but also have the ability to see the bigger picture and manage competing priorities.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation.
• Strong organisational, communication, and time‑management skills.
• Desire to continually learn and ability to manage multiple priorities within tight deadlines.
• Advanced Excel (formulas, PivotTables, Power Query, data modeling, Goal Seek, Solver, charting), VBA for automation, familiarity with SQL, or database connectivity is helpful.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programmes that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, life, accidental death, labour accident and business travel accident insurance.

Vacation & Time Off

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 counselling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Programme. We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centres in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centres. 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 centres 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 counselling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programmes for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer. Goldman Sachs is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.