Asset & Wealth Management, Monitoring & Testing, Associate, Hyderabad:

AWM Description

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

YOUR IMPACT

We are looking for an Analyst to serve as a member of the Monitoring & Testing function in Hyderabad, a critical role within the Asset & Wealth Management Strategic Transformation Office. By executing monitoring and testing processes and identifying potential risks and control weaknesses, this position contributes directly to the firm's success by ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting client assets, and improving operational efficiency.

OUR IMPACT

Within Asset & Wealth Management, we seek to provide innovative investment solutions to help our clients meet their financial goals. We work with specialists and groups from around the firm to help individuals and institutions across various industries navigate changing markets and to provide them with a diverse offering of product solutions. Financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice is provided to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients, and leading-edge technology, data and design. We value self-starters with an entrepreneurial spirit, providing the support and resources to ensure your success.

The Asset & Wealth Management Strategic Transformation Office is a recently established entity tasked with overseeing comprehensive large-scale transformations. Our primary objectives are to enhance scalability, drive revenue growth, improve client experience, and elevate controls to optimize our operating platform. This group comprises of four critical functions, including (1) Product Management & Design, (2) Change Management, (3) Regulatory Management, and (4) Monitoring & Testing. 

The Monitoring & Testing function will implement an evaluation framework to continuously monitor the efficacy of our processes, systems, and controls, and ensure their performance and compliance through robust testing methods, positioning itself as a critical function in mitigating risk within Asset & Wealth Management and Goldman Sachs as a whole. This partnership with strategic efforts across the firm allows for close collaboration with the other three functions of the Asset & Wealth Management Strategic Transformation Office, providing opportunities for experience and influence in other areas. AWM Monitoring & Testing team is looking for people with strong quantitative and technical backgrounds and a strong interest in financial markets. We seek bright and dynamic individuals with a quantitative orientation, basic financial acumen, and fluency with programming.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

Risk & Control Hat

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of the risk and control profile across Asset & Wealth Management
• Advise, challenge & inform the businesses on recommended ways to mitigate risk; reviews actions items to ensure that risk is being sufficiently addressed
• Identify ways to share risk best practice across teams and functions, and with other business lines where like processes exist/there is exposure to similar risk
• Partner with the business lines to understand the residual risks that exist after issues are resolved and engage across the front to back to apply lessons learned to improve our risk and control framework

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS 

• Solid understanding of the Asset & Wealth Management franchise and experience within a risk management context are required
• Exposure to qualitative and quantitative controls and data testing across financial products.
• Working knowledge of programming fundamentals including software development life cycle concepts.
• Proactive with strong analytical orientation, lateral thinking, organizational, influencing skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to navigate data sets, develop metrics and perform analysis.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with different levels across Asset & Wealth Management stakeholders
• Innovative, including a keen eye for identifying areas of control enhancements and automation which have practical value. Good influencing skills to challenging the status quo and continuously enhance the control environment
• Ability to perform data analytics using metrics to identify trends and themes
• Sound time management skills to be able to effectively prioritize and multi-task.
• A mentor / coach to the juniors in the team
• Drive and motivation to improve personal performance, broaden knowledge, work intensely towards extremely challenging goals, and persist in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills to collaborate as a global team and build strong relationship with key stakeholders across Divisions
• Thinks ahead, anticipates questions, plans for contingencies, finds alternative solutions and identifies clear objectives.  Sees the big picture and effectively analyzes complex issues 
• Keeps current with emerging business, economic and market trends 
• Track record of delivering and enhancing measurable, impactful business outcomes and product
• CFA, FRM or equivalent professional certifications preferred

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  

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: 

Please note that our firm has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for employees who work onsite at any of our U.S. locations to safeguard the health and well-being of all our employees and others who enter our U.S. offices. This role requires the employee to be able to work on-site. As a condition of employment, employees working on-site at any of our U.S. locations are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, and to have either had COVID-19 or received a booster dose if eligible under Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) guidance, unless prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

 Applicants who wish to request for a medical or religious accommodation, or any other accommodation required under applicable law, can do so later in the process. Please note that accommodations are not guaranteed and are decided on a case by case basis.

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