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Goldman Sachs

Desk Strat - EQ Prime Services Desk Strats

New York, NY



SECURITIES

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.

YOUR IMPACT

As a strategist who sits in the Securities Division, you will play an integral role on the trading floor. You may create cutting-edge derivative pricing models and empirical models to provide insight into market behavior, or develop automated trading algorithms for the firm and its clients. You might be involved in analyzing exposures and structuring transactions to meet client needs, or involved in designing and developing complex parallel computing architectures, electronic trading tools, and advanced algorithms. Throughout the Securities Division, strategists are using quantitative and technological techniques to solve complex business problems.

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RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Team Description

THE PRIME SERVICES STRAT TEAM - FUNDING/INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Our global team is a fundamental part of the Prime Brokerage and Clearing Services groups under the Prime Services umbrella within the Securities Division. We drive major business decisions and run business critical systems in the following areas.

Our funding/inventory management strats work with securities lending and the synthetic product desk in conducting transactions and managing risk. In this entrepreneurial role, we build and maintain real-time and scalable trading, inventory management and funding platforms and identify trade opportunities systematically.

While organized in different teams and locations, we pride ourselves in our teamwork across the globe and teams to find solutions that help our business thrive around the world. Our team members have a wide variety of quantitative academic and cultural backgrounds. This diversity helps us to find innovative solutions for our complex business problems. It is an exciting time to join our growing team.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

If you are looking for an entrepreneurial position allowing you to fully leverage your strong quantitative, engineering and communication skills to solve challenging real world problems, then our funding/inventory management strat team has the ideal opportunity for you. In this role you will work cross-functionally to build scalable and robust platforms to optimize and automate inventory management decisions. As a member of our growing team, you will have the opportunity to improve our offering to our clients across the physical and synthetic Prime Brokerage.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR Basic Qualifications
  • Strong academic background in a relevant field - Mathematics, engineering, computer science, or economics background, including a quantitative understanding of statistics and probability
  • Strong programming skills in a modern programming language (C++, Python, Java or equivalent language) and familiarity with object oriented design principles
  • Ability to work as a member of a global team and deliver results quickly
  • Ability to solve technical problems and explain the underlying ideas to a non-technical audience


Preferred Qualifications

Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledge of financial markets, in particular, understanding of one delta products, and financial mathematics is a plus
  • Successful track record of building scalable systems with clearly defined SLAs in a financial setting.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit


ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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 GS.com/careers .

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https:// www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2020. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Job ID: goldman-2020-61252
Employment Type: Other

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