Asset & Wealth Management - Quantitative Strategist, XIG - Vice President - London

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world’s leading asset managers, 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. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success.

Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally and invests in the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, and sustainability. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies, customized partnerships, and open architecture programs. The alternative investments platform is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors, and individuals.

The External Investing Group ("XIG") provides investors with investment and advisory solutions across leading private equity funds, hedge fund managers, real estate managers, public equity strategies, and fixed income strategies. XIG manages globally diversified programs, targeted sector specific strategies, customized portfolios, and a range of advisory services. Our investors access opportunities through new fund commitments, fund of fund investments, strategic partnerships, secondary market investments, co investments, and seed capital investments.

With over 350 professionals across 11 offices around the world, XIG provides manager diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and liquidity solutions to investors, drawing on Goldman Sachs’ market insights and risk management expertise. We extend these global capabilities to the world’s leading sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices, for which we invest or advise on over $300 billion of alternative investments, public equity strategies, and fixed income strategies.

Within Asset Management, Strategists ("Strats") play important roles in research, valuation, portfolio construction, and risk management analytics. A Strategist will apply quantitative and analytical methods to come up with solutions that are accurate, robust, and scalable. Strats are innovators and problem solvers, building novel and creative solutions for manager selection, portfolio construction, and risk management. You will develop advanced computational models, architectures, and applications to meet the challenges of a rapidly growing and evolving business. Strats collaborate across the business to develop solutions. These daily interactions with other team members across geographies demand an ability to communicate clearly about complex financial, business, and mathematical concepts. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change, and thrive in a fast paced global environment.

Basic Qualifications

• Outstanding background in a quantitative discipline, with excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem solving skills, and demonstrated abilities in research and data visualization
• Programming expertise in a scripting language (e.g. Python, R, Matlab)
• Strong general and technical communication skills, with an ability to effectively articulate complex financial and mathematical concepts
• Creativity and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Minimum 5 years of applicable experience

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.