Associate - 7613692

Associate - 7613692San Francisco, California, United States

Job Duties: Associate, Banker – Financing Group with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in San Francisco, California. Meeting with U.S. and Canadian corporate and private equity clients across industry sectors to provide risk management advice relating to macroeconomic exposures, including interest rates, inflation, foreign currency, credit, commodities, and equities. Identifying and quantifying clients’ risk exposures from asset-liability mismatches and strategic financial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (US and cross-border), debt issuances and repurchases, restructurings and equity offerings. Structuring, pricing and executing interest rate, inflation, foreign currency, credit, commodity and equity derivative transactions that meet clients’ specific economic and accounting criteria in collaboration with various trading desks and various other parts of the firm (credit department, legal department, etc.). Identifying, assessing and prioritizing business opportunities through client interaction, financial statement analysis, monitoring of client portfolios and market parameters and screening of general and industry-specific publications. Structuring, negotiating and interpreting ISDA (“International Swaps Dealer Association”) Master Agreements, Schedules, CSAs (“Credit Support Annexes”), trade confirmations and other governing documents relating to derivative transactions and financings. Determining appropriate content for and creating client presentation materials. Coordinating with junior bankers in producing analysis, creating client presentations and modelling trade structures related to internal and external presentations and trade executions. Recruiting, training and mentoring junior bankers.

Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Financial Engineering, or a related field. Two (2) years of experience in the job offered or a related role. Must have two (2) years of experience with: analyzing a client’s exposure to a variety of financial markets (interest rates, inflation, currencies, and commodities and equities) as well as determining the potential impact on a clients’ financial metrics such as EBITDA (“Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization”), interest expense, EPS (“earnings per share"), leverage, enterprise value or IRR (“internal rate of return” ); structuring, pricing and executing interest rate, inflation, foreign currency, credit, commodity and equity derivative transactions in collaboration with structuring and trading personnel; handling of large transactions in excess of $1 billion notional, transactions with challenged or distressed credits, transactions with multinational corporates and transactions that are structurally subordinated in the capital structure; presenting recent market developments or risk management strategies to senior executives including corporate CFOs and Treasurers and other key decision makers such as Assistant Treasurers and Treasury team members; analyzing clients’ financial statements (prepared under US GAAP “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” and IFRS “International Financial Reporting Standards”) and other disclosures (including credit agreements and sale and purchase agreements in M&A situations) in order to identify clients’ risk exposures, their current hedging activities and that of comparable companies; negotiating and analyzing ISDA (“International Swaps Dealer Association”) Master Agreements, CSAs (“Credit Support Annexes”), trade confirmations and other governing documents relating to derivative transactions; performing derivative hedge accounting using GAAP or IFRS. Recruiting, training and guiding junior bankers in generating content, presenting to clients and executing derivative transactions; and utilizing Microsoft Power Point, Word, Excel and Bloomberg, to develop client presentations, create financial models, as well as analyze large quantities of data. Travel Requirement: Domestic and international travel required approximately 25% of the time to meet with clients. All travel expenses reimbursed by the firm.

Salary Range: Annual base salary for this San Francisco, California -based position is $175,000/year - $200,000/year.