Asset & Wealth Management

About Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) 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.

Alternatives Capital Formation (ACF) is part of the Client Solutions Group (CSG) within Asset Management. ACF manages capital raising and strategy for alternative investments 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 product verticals and collaborate across strategies to identify portfolio-wide solutions. They also partner with other teams within ACF, and across CSG, investing teams and wealth management teams. Professional development initiatives provide opportunities to enhance expertise across alternative investment products, and to sharpen market knowledge from industry experts investing across the Firm. This specific ACF role sits with the External Investing Group ("XIG"), as part of the Vintage Strategies.

About Vintage Strategies. The Vintage Platform is Goldman Sachs Asset Management's dedicated secondary investing platform that sits within the External Investing Group . The Vintage Funds, which provide liquidity solutions to private market limited partner investors and general partner fund managers, represent a flagship of Goldman Sachs' alternatives franchise, with leadership in the secondaries space since 1998. Since inception, the Vintage Funds have raised nine globally diversified secondary funds and four strategy-specific vehicles, having invested over $75bn across more than 700 secondary transactions.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Principal Responsibilities

• Support senior Product Specialists within Vintage, Goldman Sachs' dedicated secondaries investment platform, helping to launch new flagship funds and all capital raising initiatives 
• Collaborate directly with the secondaries investing team on overall fund strategies, direction and mandate
• Select investor interaction with new and existing institutional investors on due diligence inquiries, regular portfolio updates, ongoing investor requests and ad hoc client projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the firm, help to define strategic direction and develop and execute go-to-market strategies for our funds, define target investors, draft marketing materials, track order book versus goals
• Produce and update investor materials for various Vintage strategies, including marketing presentations, performance and data analysis, update calls; Utilize intelligence gained from investor inquiry to thoughtfully construct investor materials and effectively distribute the fund / vehicles
• Help complete due diligence questionnaires, recurring client/consultant questionnaires; prioritize and manage workflow in the context of multiple competing priorities
• Coordinate closely with investment team and other internal stakeholders such as legal, risk management, operations, compliance, controllers and tax in order to effectively respond to inbound investor requests and inquiries
• Effectively articulate to internal and external stakeholders the Vintage investment strategy and role secondaries plays within an investor's portfolio
• Respond to questions internally from senior management and sales channels (private wealth, institutional, third-party distribution) related to Vintage funds and the secondaries platform

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a similar or related role, previous experience in Investment Banking or Investing also applicable
• Strong interest in private markets 
• Excellent communication (written and oral), analytical and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and flexibility to manage production of a high volume of quality work within tight timeframes, often including multiple simultaneous projects
• Attention to detail-proven experience of delivering high levels of accuracy
• Candidate must be a team player and self-motivated, demonstrating a willingness to take on more responsibility over time

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. 

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