Job Description

Asset & Wealth Management, Private Credit Investing, Vice President/ Associate, Tokyo

 ASSET & WEALTH 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 portfolios
• 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

Asset & Wealth Management Private Credit

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management Private Credit is one of the world’s largest alternative credit investing platforms with approximately $100bn of AUM and investment professionals based in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. 

GS Private Credit is a dynamic platform with significant cross-pollination across strategies – direct lending (middle market and large cap performing credit), opportunistic and structured investments across debt and equity.

The team originates, executes and manages credit investments across Direct Lending and Hybrid Capital strategies, deploying our senior, mezzanine and hybrid drawdown credit funds and the Firm’s balance sheet.

Direct Lending invests alongside the world’s leading financial sponsors in support of LBO transactions and other financing transactions for sponsors’ portfolio companies for companies with EBITDA ranging from $10mm to $100+mm across a wide range of industries.

Hybrid Capital provides solutions for businesses seeking non-control alternatives to traditional private equity or growth equity, cost of capital optimization or greater flexibility than traditional debt.

The Japan Private Credit team primarily focuses on mezzanine, preferred equity and hybrid capital financing to leading financial sponsors.  

Responsibilities

• The team is looking to hire a Senior Associate / Vice President to cover the Japan market and run the entire deal life-cycle including: 
• Coverage: Maintaining active dialogue with sponsors, advisors and management teams 
• Origination: Originating investment ideas across the product suite of the Private Credit team via early engagement with sponsors and advisors 
• Due Diligence and Execution: Leading all aspects of DD on the business, legal documentation and other analysis to support an investment decision at the Private Credit Investment Committee 
• Investment monitoring: Active monitoring of the investment including being an observer on company boards and having regular dialogue with the management team and shareholders

Qualifications

• 4 + years of experience in investment banking, leveraged finance or private credit roles in Japan
• Strong academic record with Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree or equivalent in Finance, Economics, Business Studies, Engineering or a related discipline from a distinguished academic institution
• Strong quantitative, financial modeling, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with financial sponsors strongly preferred
• Native level Japanese and strong business level English required

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.

 We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

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