Asset & 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. 

The Sustainability Client Solutions team mobilizes the full range of sustainability insights, advisory services and investment solutions across our client segments and asset classes (Publics Markets Investing and GS Alternatives, External Investing Group). We collaborate with sustainability teams across the division and firm to deliver the breadth and depth of our sustainability capabilities to our clients. We are seeking an associate to join the team in NYC to fill a unique role focused on developing differentiated insights on leading edge topics on sustainable investing and better serving our clients with content-rich advisory services. This role will work closely with our global team, in addition to working with our Institutional sales teams to deliver client solutions that focus on Sustainability and Impact Investing across public and private markets.  In addition, this role will work with various investment teams to support investment product development and broader delivery of our capabilities across different asset classes and across different regions.

 

Specific responsibilities include partnering with colleagues and clients to:

• Identify key questions and emerging topics, particularly those that cut across asset classes and leverage our distinctive breadth of capabilities in sustainable investing
• Advance our intelligence and insights on these topics by identifying, leveraging and adding to the pockets of expertise throughout GSAM and the firm more broadly
• Work directly and in partnership with colleagues to apply these insights to products and investing processes; to deepen client relationships through differentiated insights; and to contribute to our broader thought leadership in the market place 

 

Skills & experience we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience 
• Demonstrated focus, knowledge and experience in sustainable finance, climate, ESG analytics is a must 
• Experience in analytics, data science, and research is highly desired 
• Familiarity with portfolio construction, investment processes is a highly desired 
• Deep intellectual curiosity combined with a practical, client oriented commercial orientation 
• Proven ability to manage a diverse set of work streams and projects with ownership and drive. Highly comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity and collaborating with wide variety of colleagues and teams 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to command new content and ideas 
• Ability to give clear, direct feedback and receive the same
• Series 7 and 63 required (must be obtained within three months of employment)

 

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS 
 
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.  
 
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.  
 
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