About this role
GLOBAL BANKING & MARKETS
Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.
OUR IMPACT
We are part of the Systematic Trading Strategy (STS) team. The STS team develops systematic and client led investment strategies for our clients.
The Strats business unit is a world leader in developing quantitative and technological expertise to solve complex business problems. Working within the firm’s trading, sales, banking and investment management divisions, strats use their mathematical and scientific training to create financial products, advise clients on transactions, measure risk, and identify market opportunities.
YOUR IMPACT
We are looking for a professional to join the Equities STS Strats team, with a specialization on the iSelect platform. iSelect is a fast growing product line, which provides our clients with the ability to allocate holdings among various asset classes: single stocks, futures, options, GS indices etc. This is a key front-office role responsible for developing and maintaining iSelect strategies. You would work closely with products developers, sales, trading and fellow strats to develop and implement a robust and scalable platform which can accommodate hundreds of actively managed indices.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR
The role will cover the full spectrum of index development and support, including implementation in the front-office modelling system, index methodology documentation, product development, parameter analysis and robustness testing, integration into front-office pricing and risk models, ongoing support for production indices and risk systems, and working with the relevant sales and trading teams on marketing and risk management.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Strong academic background in a quantitative or technical discipline;
* Advanced coding and software design skills in any recognized programming language e.g. Python, Java, C++;
* Understanding of basic financial math concepts, e.g. Black Scholes pricing and strong interest in finance;
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
High level of diligence and discipline;
Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders, demonstrating initiative and showing commercial impact.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience within Equities, specifically single stocks;
* Experience implementing or developing systematic and actively managed strategies;
* Experience developing and supporting risk systems.
Other facts
About Goldman Sachs
We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence.
Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges.
For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses.
Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance.
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What you'll do
- The role involves developing and maintaining iSelect strategies, which includes working closely with product developers, sales, trading, and fellow strats. It encompasses the full spectrum of index development and support, including implementation, documentation, and ongoing support for production indices.
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