Goldman Sachs is global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm. We provide a wide range of services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, institutional investors, governments, non-profit organizations, and high net worth individuals. Our headquarters is in New York, and we maintain significant offices in London, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other financial centers around the world.
Asset Management
Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, we provide clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the firm’s primary investment area, we provide investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals, for which we oversee more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision. 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.
We are:
Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services
Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolio
Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions
Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goals
Multi Asset Solutions (MAS) is a multi-asset class investing group that sits within the Asset Management Division at Goldman Sachs. It designs and develops comprehensive investment solutions customized to meet the investment objectives and relevant constraints of clients. These solutions bring together state- of-the-art techniques for multi-asset portfolio design and implementation and reflect proprietary research and analytics conducted by the MAS team. With investment professionals across the globe, MAS invests or advises on assets for some of the world’s leading corporations, sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, and foundations.
Role:
The successful candidate will become a member of our Bengaluru PMR team within MAS with focus on multi-asset funds and models, responsible for management and construction in line with MAS investment philosophy, client guidelines and regulatory constraints. This role is highly analytical and detail-oriented, focusing on managing investment exposures across many asset classes and investment strategies. The Bengaluru-based team is a fully- integrated front-office investing function, operating on an equal footing to peer teams globally.
Core Responsibilities;
- Managing portfolios in line with client guidelines, internal investment policies, and regulatory constraints. Develop investment judgment and expertise, with expectation of being able to perform key portfolio management responsibilities within a few months after joining.
- Trading across asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, alternatives) and instruments (futures, forwards, ETFs, options, swaps, funds).
- Working closely with senior PMs to execute strategic and dynamic investment ideas with consistency and scale, including determining optimal instruments to trade based on client-specific, regulatory and market- related considerations.
- Be a part of Portfolio Management team and contribute to monitoring, evaluating, and managing risks and opportunities of the underlying investments.
- Creating investment and portfolio construction frameworks across asset classes, enhancing expertise in terms of investment alternatives.
- Managing portfolio risk across various investment vehicles and product desks, including exposure, currency and cash management, investment manager/vehicle oversight.
- Structuring trades across asset classes to manage the portfolio in line with hedging and flow considerations, in collaboration with AWM’s trading desk.
- Managing derivative-based overlay strategies to enhance risk management profile of overall portfolios and/or capture market risk premia.
- Reviewing new portfolio design and investment strategies for investor suitability, with specific focus on our ability to effectively manage and implement such strategies. Providing PMR’s review on new portfolio activities, investment proposals, trading and risk management processes.
- Participating and at times serving as a project lead in complex portfolio events, including onboarding of new client mandates, fund launches and portfolio restructurings, requiring coordination across multiple internal investment teams throughout the firm, as well as external managers and trading counterparties.
- Leading small to medium-sized projects aimed at enhancing trading and risk management processes, infrastructure and analytics to further empower the team’s oversight over portfolio management activities and mitigate trading risks.
Basic Qualifications:
- Master's Degree or equivalent preferred
- 1-3 years of investment management experience, with successful track record of employing qualities and functional abilities referenced above
- Experience in working within a dynamic, global team; demonstrated leadership potential
- Advanced degree or CFA designation preferred
- Quantitative analysis and skillset
- Detail-oriented and organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- A self-starter able to work independently and thrive in a team environment
- Consistently positive attitude and eagerness to work in a team-centric environment
- Intelligent, creative, with good problem-solving abilities
- Risk management and control orientation
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Strong interest in the financial markets, good investment awareness, intermediate or advanced knowledge of asset allocation principles and of factor investing approaches
- Ability to communicate investment strategies and rationales to audiences of varying levels of sophistication
- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; Bloomberg, Reuters or financial data systems knowledge preferred.
