Asset & Wealth Management Operations

ASSET AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, we provide clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the firm’s primary investment area, we provide investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals, for which we oversee more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision. 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. We are:

• Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services.
• Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios.
• Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions.
• Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goals.

OPERATIONS

Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted function that partners with all parts of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading and asset management capabilities to clients around the world. In addition, Operations provides essential risk management and control to preserve and enhance the firm’s assets and its reputation. For every trade agreed, every new product launched, or market entered, every transaction completed, it is Operations that develops the processes and controls that makes business flow.

YOUR IMPACT

The Asset Management Division is made up of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) and Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Bank and brings together Goldman Sachs’ primary long term principal investing capabilities with the traditional money managing arm of the firm to offer a full suite of world-class investment solutions to the firm’s clients. 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 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 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.

JOB SUMMARY AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Portfolio Control Reconciliations sits within Investment Operations and has primary responsibility of ensuring accuracy of GSAM’s and Risk counterpart’s books of accounting. By ensuring accuracy and timeliness of data, we facilitate the business in achieving desired objectives for all aspects of account onboarding, portfolio accounting, cash management, client reporting. These functions cover a wide range of clients and a complex product range, which include equities, fixed income, currency, and derivatives. The group supports portfolio managers, sales, and client relationship professionals by providing accurate and timely positions and cash balance reporting and exception management and overseeing all aspects of operational risk across portfolios. This involves extensive interaction with internal and external parties to ensure effective oversight for existing business and also to shape and implement solutions for new clients, GS’s own funds, products, strategies, and system architecture. The group continues to focus on best in-class client experience and working closely with the business to maintain and enhance client relationships. You will obtain a comprehensive knowledge of products, markets, and market related setups. You will also drive initiatives and provide solutions that will have an impact on client experience, Regulatory requirements, and risk mitigation. This is a highly technical role and as such requires ability to work effectively with a diverse group of professionals both internally and externally on wide variety of products and functions to solve for accounting issues. 

• Coverage and oversight of custodian, brokers and fund administrators to maximize potential value delivery across the firm
• Creating and driving strategic projects to improve efficiency, scalability while maintaining and managing risk
• Assist with evaluation, selection, negotiation and onboarding of new vendors / ongoing compliance with Firm vendor policies
• Evaluate new business/products/markets and collaborate across teams to represent and drive work streams
• Comply with internal risk frameworks and industry regulations to reduce risk and extract maximum value from our global network, connecting with stakeholders to lobby for internal or market change
• Support Portfolio Managers, Fund Boards, and Controllers by providing accurate and timely fund account information and overseeing all aspects of support of each pooled vehicle
• Supporting Institutional clients, Client relationship managers and Billing oversight teams providing accurate and timely account information and overseeing all aspects of support of each client relationship
• Provide superior client service and front to back oversight for GSAM’s pooled vehicle complex
• Ability to operate independently and effectively drive multiple initiatives
• Detail oriented with the ability to quickly identify and learn pertinent information across wide range of products
• Coordinate and manage tasks across a multi-disciplined team to ensure all operational information relating to an account event is received and systems are set up prior to account trading activity
• Providing effective thought leadership in navigating evolving financial regulatory landscape and helping to develop technological solutions to build appropriate architecture
• Engage in opportunities to review processes, analyze information, make decisions, recommendations and implement as well as monitor procedures
• Understand and improve problem solving capabilities for complex trade flows, accounting issues, and transactional discrepancies
• Provide reporting to senior leadership and produce insightful analysis of the business upon request for management.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting / Commerce / Finance / Business Administration
• 6-8 years of experience in Operations and/or Financial Services Industry and/or Fund accounting & administration 
• Strong understanding of the theoretical and technical nature of accounting principles and theories including fund accounting, Tax lot accounting, and Net Asset Values
• Extensive understanding of the product lifecycle (Equity, Fixed Income, and other similar financial products) including pricing, valuation, corporate action processing, wash sale and NAV change 
• Familiarity with FIS Investment Accounting Manager (formerly InvestOne) or any other portfolio accounting systems
• Strong analytical skills, critical thinking, problem solving, and able to recommend long-term solutions 
• Excellence in risk management and meticulous attention to detail with a sense of urgency / deliver tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently, multitask and adopt in a fast-paced environment to deliver results
• Excellent communication (both written & spoken)
• Demonstrate ability to partner across product groups, regions and functional responsibilities
• Experience working across multiple business areas and/or functions to deliver results
• Strategic thinker, possesses strong facilitation and data gathering skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and ability to present to senior management

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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