Asset and Wealth Management

ASSET MANAGEMENT

Asset & Wealth Management: 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. 

Structured Investing:

The Structured Investing Group is a global multi-disciplinary structuring team within Asset and Wealth Management specializing in optimizing the Firm’s investing and lending activities as well as its funding and legal entity structure strategy.  The team focuses on originating, structuring and executing transactions that affect the Firm’s global tax, regulatory and accounting positions as well as AWM’s funding profile.  We work on transactions with deal teams across Asset and Wealth Management and the rest of the Firm, as well as originate and execute our own transactions.  This is a creative, analytical and execution-focused team, comprised of people with diverse structuring backgrounds who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments.

Responsibilities: 

• Work on the development, approvals, execution, and ongoing maintenance of transactions and initiatives that have an impact on the Firm’s tax, regulatory and accounting positions
• Assist with structured funding initiatives, including external rating of AWM investments
• Model the financial statement impact and economic benefits of the proposed transactions
• Create presentation materials to brief internal and external stakeholders 
• Collaborate with internal functions to progress proposed transactions through the required governance and approvals processes
• Liaise with external advisers and internal teams on the preparation, review, and execution of transaction documents
• Work on the ongoing maintenance and risk management of transactions post-execution, including maintenance of the deal models and coordination with the Firm’s Finance and Accounting teams to monitor and report ongoing economic impact of transactions
• Work as the face of the business when dealing with internal groups and external advisors to help resolve any compliance, operational, legal, tax, accounting and funding issues

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 – 5 years of financial services/accounting/tax experience that includes transaction execution
• Well-versed in the tax, accounting, and regulatory capital aspects of transactions
• Robust understanding of the components and applications of financial instruments
• Strong problem solving, quantitative, and modeling skills
• Must be able to work independently with minimum direct supervision
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrable ability to articulate complex concepts to a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Strong team player