AMD, Alternative Investment Manager Selection, Platform Management, Credit Management, VP

Asset Management

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.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

The Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) Group provides investors with investment and advisory solutions, across leading hedge fund managers, private equity funds, real estate managers, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies. The AIMS Group 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 200 professionals across eight offices around the world, the AIMS Group 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 $150 billion of alternative investments, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies.

The AIMS Platform Management team is broadly responsible for portfolio implementation and trading, liquidity risk management, designing equity and currency hedging programs, portfolio construction and monitoring, external manager on-boarding and oversight, private market deal closing, valuation models for level 3 assets, overseeing the business control framework as well as a number of important strategic initiatives. The team works closely with the investment and client portfolio solutions areas within AIMS, and with functional teams across the broader firm including Central Trading, Fund Accounting, Operations, Technology, Legal and Compliance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with senior portfolio managers to develop and execute liquidity and leverage strategies across our private markets portfolios. This includes portfolio life cycle and leverage analyses, liquidity target modeling, performance optimization, capital and collateral efficiency, investment guidelines and other portfolio management factors.
• Proactively identify new and innovative ways in which to implement liquidity strategies, including sourcing new credit providers, outlining terms that are accretive to investment performance and to efficient capital allocation strategies.
• Lead strategic initiatives with Engineering and other relevant teams to evolve existing operating business infrastructure and suite of portfolio tools / applications.
• Management of the credit facility platform across private markets, including planning of future activity, onboarding of credit facilities, optimization of credit facility utilization, liaising with counterparties via the fund financing team, oversight of junior team, and ensuring adherence to guidelines and covenants.
• Participate in activities related to portfolio launches, restructuring and rebalances.
• Develop analytical models and reports to support critical business functions.
• Active participation in strategic projects that span multiple functional areas, with a focus on profitability, efficiency and scalability.
• Respond to both ongoing and ad-hoc requests from the various business areas within the AIMS organization.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience; preferably credit, liquidity management, alternative investments or asset management.
• Preferably experienced with engaging with lenders, credit facility agreements, leverage strategies, and liquidity management solutions.
• Good understanding of private equity investment structures and processes, market strategies, and client offering
• Strong management, communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills and high level of proficiency in market data applications, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong project planning, organization, and time management skills- able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.
• Detailed oriented.
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic individual.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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