Location
London, Greater London, England

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

The Global Risk Management team is uniquely positioned within the firm as part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Our global fund complex and separately managed account portfolios cover a wide range of asset classes, global markets, and strategies. The team is responsible for independent oversight and risk governance covering all elements of risk including market risk, liquidity risk, counterparty risk, operational risk, as well as risk governance and oversight of dedicated regulated legal entities via designated CRO roles.

The team regularly interacts with a wide range of groups across Goldman Sachs Asset Management including portfolio managers, embedded risk managers, and various Federation groups such as Legal, Compliance, the Risk Division, and Controllers to effectively monitor risk and continually improve the risk governance framework. The team is also responsible for risk monitoring and regulatory reporting for the global fund complex.

Key responsibilities include daily and weekly monitoring of risks associated with GSAM funds across different investment strategies, developing and enhancing stress tests, scenario analyses, and risk attribution, building and maintaining relationships with portfolio managers and other key stakeholders, providing regular updates on risk metrics to senior AM Risk Management, ensuring adherence to the independent risk governance framework, assessing and quantifying market risk through various metrics including drawdown controls, VaR, risk concentrations, risk factor analysis and other stress tests, and providing detailed market risk updates and reports to Boards of Directors and regulators as required.

Experience
Strong academic record with a degree or equivalent in Finance, Economics, Accounting or a related discipline. Experience in Fixed Income Market Risk gained from working within the investment management industry is advantageous. Must have strong experience in measuring, monitoring, analysing and reporting risk exposures, especially related to Fixed Income product suite. Detail oriented with a strong control mentality. Ability to demonstrate involvement in process improvement initiatives is required.

About you
Acute and pro-active interest in financial markets. Highly motivated, enthusiastic, and assertive with a “can-do” attitude. Strong team player, able to work with a wide range of stakeholders including Portfolio Managers, Controllers, and Technology teams. Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.

Qualifications
Degree or equivalent qualification in Finance, Economics, Accounting or related discipline.