Asset & Wealth Management, Global Investment Risk - Fixed Income, Vice Pres

at  Goldman Sachs

ASSET & WEALTH MANAGEMENT

We provide institutional and individual investors with investment and advisory solutions, with strategies spanning asset classes, industries, and geographies. We help our clients navigate today’s dynamic markets and identify the opportunities that shape their portfolios and long-term investment goals. We extend these global capabilities to the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, individuals and family offices. Our Asset & Wealth Management business also invests in corporate equity and corporate debt, real estate equity, and real estate debt and infrastructure worldwide. Additionally, we provide asset management services to investments where Goldman Sachs has an interest. Consisting of hundreds of professionals in multiple offices around the world, our business operates on a global platform.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 5+ years of experience in risk management from an asset manager, hedge fund or sell side
• Strong working knowledge of Fixed Income and multi-asset risk management
• Detailed product and risk metric knowledge (VaR, stress testing, tracking error, etc) across a range of asset classes with a focus on Fixed Income asset class, and keen engagement with financial markets
• Highly organized, with attention to detail and proven track record of execution and delivery, both as an individual and as part of a team, which can be demonstrated
• Excellent team management and interpersonal skills and the ability to forge strong relationships with internal clients
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence a range of senior stakeholders, including exposure to governance fora
• Inquisitive mindset: seek deeper understanding of complex portfolios, products and processes and their associated risksStrong system capability, including Excel, PowerPoint. Coding experience would be a plus, although not a prerequisite

As a Vice President within the Global Risk Management team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, you will be responsible for the following key duties.

• Providing oversight for market and liquidity risks and the associated risk governance processes
• Reviewing risk model outputs for external regulatory reporting
• Interacting directly with senior management to ensure that our risk governance oversight is understood, that material risks are effectively escalated, and governance items appropriately remediated
• Engaging with portfolio managers and traders, covering a broad range of asset classes, global markets and strategies on topics including risk governance threshold breaches, performance drivers, and most notably, changes in risk profile and strategies
• Leading initiatives, along with our dedicated Strat and IT teams, to implement new risk tooling, measures and analytics to meet internal and regulatory requirements
• Engaging with clients to provide information around Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s risk management culture and risk governance frameworks as part of client pitches or in periodic due diligence meetings