What are the responsibilities and job description for the Asset & Wealth Management Operations-Client Onboarding & Configuration-Dallas-Senior Analyst position at Goldman Sachs?
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY AND RESPONSBILITIES
JOB SUMMARY AND RESPONSBILITIES
- Holistic ownership and understanding of client accounts, trade life cycle and act as a single point of contact for AMD business for any investment guideline issues or queries. Types of client accounts include institutional separately managed accounts, regulated mutual funds/pooled vehicles, ERISA pension plans, and unregistered private funds.
- Ability to understand and decipher into business logic from sources including investment management agreements (IMA), fund prospectuses and statement of additional information, Investment Policies, Pre-Contractual Obligations (PCDs) and other client investment restrictions including an ever-evolving landscape of Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) client and regulatory requirements.
- Implement and maintain client and regulatory guideline rules on compliance platforms
- Liaison with Investment Teams to ensure understanding and adherence to investment guidelines
- Partner with various operations and technology engineering teams to improve data availability and quality, and improvements/modernization of existing processes.
- Collaboration with post-trade guidelines monitoring partners to provide advice and assistance in helping to resolve live guideline exceptions and issues, exceptions reduction, and manually monitored guidelines.
- Represent the team in client meetings for due diligence purposes
- Partner and liaise with client implementation teams to qualify new business, implement account events, and ensure the adequacy of account surveillance.
- Providing effective thought leadership in navigating evolving financial regulatory landscape and helping to develop technological solutions to build appropriate architecture.
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Analyst level with around 2-4 years of professional experience in the financial services industry
- Knowledge of operational aspects of trade management or investment guidelines surveillance
- Be highly collaborative, team-oriented, and strong consensus builder
- Demonstrate ability to partner across product groups, regions, and functional responsibilities
- Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral
- Flexibility to be available for occasional time-sensitive pre-trade support needed after hours prior to Asia market opening
- Solid base understanding of equities, fixed income, bank loans, private credit, currencies, and derivative instruments
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) / Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by GARP) / Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) certifications will be a plus
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience in coding and/or monitoring investment guidelines using systems such as Sentinel, Charles River, Aladdin, Bloomberg AIM will be an advantage
- Be a strategic thinker, possess strong facilitation and data gathering skills
- Effective problem solver, multi-tasking, attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
- Risk management focus