Private Wealth Management (PWM) Quantitative Strategist – Associate/ VP recruitment

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

The Investment Management Division (IMD) works with clients, from individual investors to large financial institutions, to develop advanced portfolio management strategies to help them achieve specific goals for their own or their institution's financial future.  Strats within IMD use quantitative techniques, technology, and industry knowledge to develop solutions for the business across all major regions of the world. 

The Private Wealth Management (PWM) division is looking for a Strategist to join the team.  Strategists in PWM use quantitative techniques, technology, and industry knowledge to develop solutions for the business across all major regions of the world. Projects typically span multiple asset classes and products and entail extensive interaction with the division’s clients, marketers, salespeople, portfolio managers, traders, and senior management.  

Responsibilities:

•Designing customized hedging and investment strategies for high-net-worth individuals
•Developing and maintaining risk management and investment tools across multiple asset classes for portfolio managers and traders.
•Generating risk analysis for senior management
•Providing quantitative rationale analysis to market structured products and managed investment strategies to clients

Experience Required

•Strong communications skills are essential.
•Strong educational background in a quantitative discipline such as maths, physics, engineering
•Programming skills and knowledge of multiple asset classes preferred
•Intelligence, creativity, and problem-solving skills
•A self-starter, should have ability to work independently as well as thrive in a team environment

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the principle of diversity. Goldman Sachs conducts background checks on individuals offered employment with the firm and employment with Goldman Sachs is conditional upon individuals successfully completing those checks. As part of the background check process, Goldman Sachs may need to obtain a record of disclosable criminal convictions form a government agency such as the Criminal Records Bureau. The firm has adopted policies on the recruitment of ex-offenders and on the retention, storage and disposal of criminal information which are available on request