Job Description

Divisional Overview

The Risk Division is a team of specialists charged with managing the firm’s credit, market, liquidity, and operational risk. Whether assessing the creditworthiness of the firm’s counterparties, monitoring market risks associated with trading activities, or offering analytical and regulatory compliance support, our work contributes directly to the firm’s success. The division is ideal for collaborative individuals who have strong ethics and attention to detail. https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/divisions/risk/index.html

Credit Risk (CR) is responsible for managing the firm’s credit exposure to its trading and lending counterparties. Leveraging its extensive expertise in financial, credit and risk analysis, CR ensures that credit exposure to our counterparts is managed within the firm’s risk appetite. Staffed with more than 300 professionals, CR operates through 11 different offices around the world and credit professionals work closely with many areas of the firm. Given this structure, CR professionals gain diverse financial experience and a broad perspective on how the entire firm functions. The interaction with numerous departments and the range of projects that ensue allow for a challenging, varied and multi-dimensional work environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess the credit and financial strength of the firm's corporate borrowers and counterparts by performing fundamental credit analysis of counterparties using both quantitative and qualitative factors
• Review and provide recommendation for loan transactions, determine appetite and regulatory ratings, monitor credit trends in the portfolio, perform distressed analysis and estimate potential impairments
• Analyze the credit implications on corporate clients of various financial transactions including debt, equity and hybrid offerings, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and share repurchases
• Coordinate with Investment Banking/Financing group, Sales & Trading, Legal, Operations and Compliance departments to approve derivatives business and ensure appropriate documentation, limits and risk mitigants to protect against a counterpart default and minimize potential losses
• Analyze the risks inherent in the products GS transacts, including lending, trading and derivative products
• Perform sector analysis regularly in order to assess portfolio concentration or trends
• Monitor, manage and report exposures at a counterpart, product and portfolio level

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 3-5 years of credit risk management experience, with a background in corporate credit risk
• Experience in investment banking products including loan products and derivatives is preferred 
• Familiarity with regulatory rating requirements and application of such guidance is preferred Strong analytical, presentational and communication skills required

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $110000-$140000. 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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