Job Description

Quantitative Equity Solutions Strats, Vice President, AWM - NEW YORK

About 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 $3 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

About Quantitative Equity Solutions Team in AWM

Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Quantitative Equity Solutions team is a fast-growing group which oversees more than $200BN across over 50,000 customized equity portfolios, Exchange Funds, Mutual Funds and ETFs. The Quantitative Equity Solutions group delivers investment solutions to High Net Worth, Institutional and Retail clients to address investor needs and goals including tax management, risk management, value alignment, yield enhancement, customization, etc.

As a focal point for one of the division’s key priority initiatives, the team operates in an entrepreneurial environment but with the resources of a large organization.  A core focus for the team is managing cutting-edge investment strategies and innovating new investment capabilities that can transform the asset management industry. We design and employ highly scalable portfolio management systems to create equity-based strategies to meet client needs. Current investment solutions range from tax managed offerings, single stock diversification, income-based strategies, factor-based investing, values alignment and environmentally oriented portfolios - with more strategies under development.  

This team of Portfolio Managers, Client Portfolio Managers, Strategists, and Technologists oversee all aspects of the portfolio management process, drive research projects, create new investment strategies, and design systems and workflows. We are energized by leveraging technology to create scale and customization across our entire business and deliver an excellent client experience. Our team operates in a fast-paced environment that welcomes individuals who have a OR/Financial Engineering background and demonstrated interest in driving efficiency, optimizing systems and portfolio management topics.

Your Impact as a Strategist

Within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, quantitative engineering strategists are at the cutting edge of our business, solving real-world problems through a variety of analytical methods. Working in close collaboration with portfolio managers across asset classes, their invaluable quantitative perspectives on complex financial and technical challenges power our business and investment decisions.

As a member of our team, you will use your advanced training in mathematics, programming and logical thinking to construct quantitative models that drive our success. Your talents for research, analysis and aptitude for innovation will define your contributions and enable you to find solutions to a broad range of problems, in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Whatever your background, you will bring a fresh perspective and unique skillset to our business. In return, you will be trained by our experts to navigate the complexities of the financial markets and state-of-the-art methods in quantitative finance.

An ordinary day is anything but. You may work on alpha generating strategies; discuss portfolio allocation problems; and build models for prediction, trading automation, data analysis and more. Whichever your area of contribution, your ideas will have measurable effect on our business and for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with portfolio managers to design quantitative  strategies and models
• Collaborating with various teams and developing sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment
• Developing quantitative analytics and signals using advanced statistical, quantitative, or econometric techniques to improve the portfolio construction process and improve portfolio performance
• Developing rigorous and scalable data management/analysis tools to support the investment process.  
• Transforming concepts and ideas into robust software leveraging object oriented or functional programming languages

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building optimized portfolio management strategies using quantitative techniques
• Preference for candidates who have experience in equity strategies, including equity options and long/short strategies
• Background in a quantitative discipline (e.g. mathematics, engineering, physics, or computer science) with a preference for Masters and PhDs 
• Proficient in at least one programming language, and proven experience in production software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in architecting cloud native analytical capabilities beneficial
• Exceptional attention to detail, careful/thorough, well organized, effective time management
• Thrive in a team-oriented and collaborative environment and brings a great attitude to work

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $150000-$250000. 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.

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