Job Title: Trade Management - Analyst
Location: Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Duration: 12 Months

OUR IMPACT
Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted division that partners with all parts of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading and asset management capabilities to clients around the world. In addition, Operations provides essential risk management and control to preserve and enhance the firm’s assets and its reputation. For every trade agreed, every new product launched or market entered, every transaction completed, it is Operations that develops the processes and controls that makes business flow.

GSAM is the investment management arm of the firm. As a leading player in the asset management world, GSAM makes pioneering industry improvements a priority across all of its sectors.

The Trade Management team has primary responsibility of mitigating risk throughout all aspects of trade flow, settlement, and collateral management. By building deep relationships with the trading desks, technology, brokers, and clients, Trade Management oversees the existing business and implements solutions for new products, strategies, and systems. Active change requires active leadership; Trade Management prioritizes innovation in order to craft the future asset management landscape.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
Key responsibilities being:
Prepare to gain a comprehensive understanding of the trade lifecycle by interacting with traders, strategists, clients, and technologists to work toward the shared goal of risk mitigation
Connect daily with traders and brokers to resolve issues and ensure timely settlement of trades
Understand and improve problem solving capability for complex trade flow, accounting issues, and transactional discrepancies
Showcase leadership in project management skills toward aims of improved cross-product support and relationship management
Leverage your quantitative skills to decompose processes to improve control and scale of the business
Provide reporting to senior leadership and produce insightful analyses of the business upon request for management
Grow with the team; develop a deeper understanding of complex transactions and work with our business partners to progress our trade capture capabilities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Degree: Bachelor’s degree required
Client Service: Proven ability to build global relationships and communicate complex issues to a wide array of clients with differing levels of product experience.
Communication: Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the confidence to engage professionally and persuasively with clients and senior figures within the firm.
Leadership Capabilities: Ability to think critically and apply thought leadership
Accountability: Self-motivated and proactive team player who takes ownership of projects with the aptitude to manage clients’ expectations and follow-through with professionalism
Team Player: Thrives in a teamwork oriented environment and works well under pressure
Analytical Skills: Proven analytical skills, problem solving ability, and a control mentality paired with meticulous attention to detail.
Technical Skills: Expertise in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) required and the ability to work with web-based applications
Results-Oriented: Ability to handle time-sensitive projects while focusing on the quality of work delivered, and helping lead projects to a successful conclusion
Professional Maturity: Ability to manage confidential information with excellent judgment
Prioritization: Deadline driven with the ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Work experience in financial services
Comprehension of industry agenda and platforms (e.g., DTC, SWIFT, DTCC)

Education:
Bachelors

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Job Type: Contract

Pay: $23.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Financial services: 2 years (Required)
• Trading: 1 year (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Salt Lake City, UT (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Salt Lake City, UT: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person