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Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management
External Investing Group (XIG) – Petershill Partners Administrative Assistant
Job Summary & Responsibilities:
- Provides executive support to Global Co-Head of Petershill Strategies + Managing Directors in a complex team environment and backup administrative support as needed.
- Maintain and coordinate complex and extremely detailed calendars, including senior-level internal meetings, external client engagement & conference calls.
- Prioritizes meeting requests with portfolio companies, proactively coordinates quarterly engagements with GPs and related logistics.
- Manages high volume of phones calls and interacts with high level business leaders, including C-Suite, and clients in a professional and effective manner.
- Handles highly confidential and sensitive client information with utmost discretion.
- Responds and follows up on client requests.
- Coordinates a high volume of domestic and international travel arrangements across multiple time zones including visa procurement
- Processes expense reports in a timely manner, allocating and tagging all billbacks correctly in systems to meet reporting obligations to clients and auditors.
- Prepares and distributes department correspondence, memos, letters, reports or other documents as requested.
- Maintains understanding of firm policies and handles certain issues independently.
- Responsible for participation in ad-hoc and general administrative duties (copying, filing, faxing, shipping, vendor onboarding, invoicing, etc) ad-hoc projects, committees and/or event planning.
- Works with conference and catering services for client engagements as needed.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Professional experience supporting high level executive(s) in a complex environment, preferably in financial services.
- Ability to exercise strong judgment and discretion in dealing with confidential material or handling highly sensitive information.
- Requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written & verbal. Ability to display a consistent, professional degree of communication.
- Extreme attention to detail and organizational skills, with ability to prioritize tasks.
- Quick learner and self-starter with excellent anticipation skills.
- Pro-active problem solver and independent thinker; ability to follow-up as often as necessary.
- Ability to work well under pressure while maintaining high standards, adapt to unexpected events, prioritize and multi-task in a dynamic but deadline driven environment.
- Highest degree of integrity, professionalism, and diplomacy is required.
- Strong proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook is required.
- Familiar with expense platforms such as SAP Concur and/or Ariba
- Supportive team player with a positive attitude.
- Ideal candidate has at least 8+ years of experience.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.
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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Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $70000-$110000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available
to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.