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.
BUSINESS OVERVIEW
The External Investing Group (“XIG”) provides investors with investment and advisory solutions, across leading private equity funds, hedge fund managers, real estate managers, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies. XIG manages globally diversified programs, targeted sector-specific strategies, customized portfolios, and a range of advisory services. Our investors access opportunities through new fund commitments, fund-of-fund investments, strategic partnerships, secondary-market investments, co-investments, and seed-capital investments. With over 350 professionals across 11 offices around the world, XIG provides manager diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and liquidity solutions to investors, drawing on Goldman Sachs’ market insights and risk management expertise. We extend these global capabilities to the world’s leading sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices, for which we invest or advise on over $300 billion of alternative investments, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies.
Client Portfolio Solutions
The Client Portfolio Solutions team is responsible for managing investor relations across the firm’s investment businesses. These responsibilities include building portfolio construction proposals for large institutional clients around the world and monitoring its execution, development and production of marketing and other client update materials, hosting client meetings and managing ad-hoc requests related to private markets portfolios and investment strategies, and the collection and analysis of relevant market data. This role is focused on our private equity secondaries strategies.
Principal Responsibilities
• Produce and update client materials including but not limited to performance analyses, case studies, update call and annual meeting materials, investor reporting, portfolio review books and other ad hoc client portfolio updates
• Prepare content for fundraises, including product profiles, pitch books, and other documents
• Work with senior team members in managing client deliverables and communications, as well as new business development activities such as completion of requests for information (RFIs) and due diligence questionnaires (DDQs)
• Effectively articulate the role of private equity strategies within a client’s portfolio and explain to internal and external stakeholders the investment strategy
• Answer questions from sales teams across all channels (private wealth, institutional, third party distribution)
• Coordinate closely with investment team and other internal stakeholders such as legal, risk management, operations, compliance, controllers and tax in order to respond to requests from clients and senior management
Qualifications
• Strong interest in private markets and investor relations
• Excellent analytical, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
• Attention to detail and ability to deliver high levels of accuracy
• Knowledge and understanding of Excel, PowerPoint and Word and adaptability to learn other software products
• Candidate must be a team player and self-motivated, demonstrating a willingness to take on more responsibility over time
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience required
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $90000-$125000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here
