Goldman Sachs Looking for Asset & Wealth Management, Strategy Team, Associate at New York, NY Full Time

Asset Management & 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.

AWM Strategy Team

The Asset & Wealth Management Strategy team (“AWM Strategy”) partners with the leaders of the business to solve its most critical strategic issues. The team’s remit spans three core pillars: (1) competitive intelligence, (2) business strategy, and (3) corporate development. Through these three pillars, AWM Strategy provides insights and recommendations to drive business growth across both organic and inorganic opportunities.

AWM Strategy regularly engages with senior stakeholders across the various AWM lines of business. As trusted strategic advisors, AWM Strategy leverages industry expertise, market perspective, and independent research to evaluate, prioritize, and execute strategic initiatives and corporate development opportunities.

AWM Strategy is seeking an Associate to join its team in New York.

Roles & Responsibilities

The Associate will be accountable for helping to drive key AWM Strategy initiatives forward, in collaboration with his or her AWM Strategy colleagues and business partners across AWM. This individual will help model, communicate, and execute on strategic growth projects for the AWM business. Roles & responsibilities will include:

• Conducting market review and sizing analyses, to uncover the drivers of industry change and evaluate AWM’s relative positioning
• Identifying and developing strategies in support of AWM’s growth priorities, including modeling the financial impact of our potential business choices
• Supporting AWM’s corporate development efforts, including the assessment of new business opportunities, screening of potential targets, evaluation of strategic rationale and value creation drivers, financial modeling, etc.
• Creating presentations to facilitate the delivery of the team’s findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (finance preferred)
• 2+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity or corporate development
• Knowledge of the asset management industry (including key players and trends) is a plus
• Strong analytical, technical and structured thinking skills, with the ability to synthesize complex analyses into clear insights
• Extensive financial modeling experience (e.g., DCF, comparable transactions, sum-of-the-parts, scenario modeling, etc.)
• Highly proficient at PowerPoint and Excel
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to independently balance multiple projects and competing priorities
• Experience using core AWM databases: e.g., Bloomberg, FactSet, SNL, Visible Alpha, Morningstar, eVestment, Pitchbook

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $100000-$160000. 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 .