Trade Management Analyst

Duties

ABOUT OPERATIONS

Operations partners with all areas of Goldman Sachs to deliver our institutional, consumer and asset management businesses and to provide a seamless experience for our clients.

We manage and process our clients business, including onboarding, post-trade processing and regulatory compliance. Our teams work closely across the firm to develop and deliver new products and services, while mitigating operational risk and enhancing the client experience. We drive process and technology change to scale and automate our businesses.

Operations professionals are either embedded in the revenue division that they support, or they support multiple businesses and are part of core Operations.

YOUR IMPACT

Are you looking to expand your understanding of financial products and be well versed on the life cycle of a trade? Our Trade Management team is seeking a professional who is looking to collaborate with traders, portfolio managers and external counterparties to ensure all trades are communicated, confirmed, and settled to safeguard our clients and funds.

OUR IMPACT

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) is the investment management arm of the firm. As a leading player in the asset management world, GSAM makes pioneering industry improvements a priority across all of its sectors. The Trade Management team has primary responsibility of mitigating risk throughout all aspects of trade flow, settlement, and collateral management.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

JOB SUMMARY & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare to gain a comprehensive understanding of the trade lifecycle by interacting with traders, strategists, clients, and technologists to work toward the shared goal of risk mitigation.
• Connect daily with traders, brokers, custodians to resolve issues and ensure timely settlement of trades.
• Understand and improve problem solving capability for complex trade flow, accounting issues, and transactional discrepancies.
• Showcase leadership in project management skills toward aims of improved cross-product support, increased efficiency, reduced risk and enhanced client experience.
• Leverage your quantitative skills to decompose processes to improve control and scale of the business.
• Provide reporting to senior leadership and produce insightful analyses of the business upon request for management.
• Grow with the team; develop a deeper understanding of complex transactions and work with our business partners to progress our trade management capabilities.

Skills

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 1-3 years of professional experience.
• Knowledge of financial products, trade lifecycle whether academically or professionally acquired.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Demonstrate willingness to deep dive into an issue or problem to establish and address root cause. Attention to detail and interest in problem solving.
• Proven ability to effectively manage competing priorities and to work well under pressure in a team environment.
• Demonstrate strong team player skills. Effectively collaborate with others both regionally and globally.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Work experience in financial services.
• Comprehension of industry trends and platforms.
• Positive attitude and eagerness to learn.
• Lead by example to challenge status quo and look for innovative/creative ways to improve current processes and procedures.

Education

Graduate and Post Graduate