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Asset & Wealth Management, Fixed Income, Institutional Solutions Investment Spec

Goldman Sachs Bank AG, New York, NY, United States


Asset & Wealth Management Overview
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 $3 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.

Fixed Income & Liquidity Solutions Overview
Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions, within Public Investing, manages more than $1.7 trillion* in assets for a variety of clients, including private wealth mandates and institutional clients such as insurance companies, pension funds, and endowments. The team has a long history of investing across public fixed income strategies including rates, currency and credit on behalf of our clients. Investment ideas are created through collaboration between portfolio managers, research analysts, and traders.

Role Overview
The Investment Specialist (IS) team is part of the Fixed Income Portfolio Management Team. IS team works closely with Lead Portfolio Managers (LPMs) and is focused on the strategic development, growth and positioning of our Fixed Income product offerings. This includes being involved in all aspects of the new business process, providing portfolio and investment strategy information as well as market developments to our existing clients.

Responsibilities

Develop Product Knowledge - gain understanding of Fixed Income investment products including: Money Markets, Municipals, High Yield, Emerging Market Debt, Currency, and Hedge Funds.

Servicing Existing Clients – Own and deliver customized client materials - ensuring work is of the highest commercial quality – attention to detail is paramount

Business Development – Take active participation in all aspects of the new business process, including but not limited to; responding to ad hoc client queries, providing specialist product or market input to RFPs, creation of bespoke and customized presentation materials, market analysis, portfolio modelling and assisting with the onboarding process

Portfolio/ Market Analysis – Comprehend and effectively communicate - current portfolio positioning, performance attribution, market trends and investment themes in a manner which is suitable for the intended audience; assist LPM’s with portfolio oversight and analysis

Project Management – Work on various intra and cross team-related projects to enhance and improve all aspects of the fixed income process

Qualifications

Bachelors or Master’s degree of Finance, Economics, Business or Commerce.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Strong analytical skills and keen attention to detail.

Ability to multi-task and meet multiple deadlines.

Enthusiasm for Fixed Income products and markets.

CFA is a plus.

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 are 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 firm‑wide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We are committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer

Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program.

We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care
We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation, and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer.

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