Sustainability and Impact Client Solutions Associate

Asset & Wealth Management

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth 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 with over $2 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. 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. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As 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.

Our Impact

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) delivers innovative investment solutions through a global, multi-product platform that offers clients the advantages that come with working with a large firm, while maintaining the benefits of a boutique. GSAM is one of the pre-eminent investment management organizations globally. Critical to the success of GSAM is our ability to leverage a global team of talented professionals to define solutions and lead change across the operational infrastructure. GSAM Client Solutions Group (CSG) works to develop and execute thoughtful investment solutions for institutional clients across the globe. Our diverse institutional client base includes corporate and public pension funds, foundations and endowments, insurers, financial institutions and governments.

CSG markets GSAM's investment products and services to institutions, financial intermediaries and advisors. The focus is on building and maintaining long-term client relationships and communicating key themes from the firm's leading investment professionals. CSG provides investment solutions across all major asset classes (e.g., fixed income, equities and alternatives) and products including mutual funds, ETFs, separate accounts and alternative investments. 

Sustainability & Impact Client Solutions:

 The Sustainability & Impact Client Solutions team mobilizes the full range of sustainability insights, advisory services and investment solutions across our client segments and asset classes (Publics Markets Investing and GS Alternatives, External Investing Group). We collaborate with sustainability teams across the division and firm to deliver the breadth and depth of our sustainability capabilities to our clients. We are seeking an associate to join the team in NYC to fill a unique role focused on developing differentiated insights on leading edge topics on sustainable investing and better serving our clients with content-rich advisory services. This role will work closely with our global team, in addition to working with our Institutional sales teams to deliver client solutions that focus on Sustainability and Impact Investing across public and private markets.  In addition, this role will work with various investment teams to support investment product development and broader delivery of our capabilities across different asset classes and across different regions.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Partner with colleagues across global teams, including investment, sales, risks & control, to ensure seamless delivery of sustainability-related services and products across asset classes to our Americas institutional and retail clients
• Articulate and communicate GSAM’s sustainability and impact capabilities and views to both internal and external stakeholders
• Assist in managing and delivering complex client projects with a sustainability focus. These projects may include portfolio analysis, strategic planning, market insights, and custom sustainability product development
• Conduct research on sustainability trends, energy investments, regulatory developments, and best practices within sustainability and impact investing, providing insights and support for client engagements and product offerings
• Develop client materials, presentations, and content for pitchbooks and language to respond to client due diligence questionnaires and request for proposals
• Actively contribute to the development of long-term client relationships by understanding their needs, goals, and sustainability objectives, helping to position GSAM as a trusted advisor
• Facilitate partnership between sales, product, and investment teams to ensure that sustainability solutions are effectively integrated into broader sales strategies

Skills & experience we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3+ years of relevant prior experience
• Demonstrated focus, knowledge and experience in sustainable finance, climate, impact investing is a must
• Experience in investment management, or business development, advisory service, preferably in a client-facing role especially with allocators (e.g. pensions, insurers, endowment and foundations, family offices, high net worth individuals) is highly desired 
• Familiarity with portfolio construction, investment processes is highly desired
• Deep intellectual curiosity combined with a practical, client oriented commercial orientation 
• Proven ability to manage a diverse set of work streams and projects with ownership and drive. Highly comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity and collaborating with wide variety of colleagues and teams 
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear, concise presentations to a variety of audiences, including senior stakeholders and clients
• Strong project management and organizational abilities, with the capacity to juggle multiple tasks and deliver results under tight deadlines
• A team player who thrives in a collaborative environment and demonstrates a proactive approach to contributing to team goals
• Ability to think critically and offer innovative solutions to meet client needs, with a willingness to take initiative in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to give clear, direct feedback and receive the same
• Series 7 and 63 required (or must be obtained within three months of employment)