AWM, AIMS Private Markets Allocations & Liquidity Management Analyst, SLC

Job Description

GOLDMAN SACHS FIRM OVERVIEW

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals.

LOCATION

Salt Lake City

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 several 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

• Assist with portfolio allocation analyses and recommendations, update and track investable capital models, and monitor investment guidelines.
• Participate is all activities related to investment onboarding, ensuring deal exposure is properly captured in all our internal systems, and assist with generating portfolio activity instructions to all the relevant fund administrators.
• Participate in activities related to portfolio launches, restructuring and rebalances.
• Maintain and update portfolio life cycle models, update liquidity target models and generate ongoing portfolio liquidity plans, update leverage models and analyses.
• Assist with all funding processes related to portfolio and investor activity (capital calls and capital distributions).
• Assist with the maintenance and management of credit facilities across all investment verticals.
• Support publication of ongoing (weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual) platform and function activity reports and KPIs.
• Perform incident tracking and reporting and conduct regular review of desk procedures to ensure changes are being tracked and updated accordingly.
• Develop analytical models and reports to support critical business functions.
• Active participation in strategic projects that span multiple functional areas, with a focus on evolving existing operating business infrastructure and suite of portfolio tools / applications.
• Respond to both ongoing and ad-hoc requests from the various business areas within the AIMS organization.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience; preferably Private Equity, trade allocation, liquidity management, alternative investments, or asset management.
• 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.
• Detail oriented
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic individual.