AMD Public-Salt Lake City-Associate-Ongoing Client Readiness

ASSET MANAGEMENT

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

OPERATIONS

Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted function 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.

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.

Funds Oversight and Vendor Management team sits within Client Operations and has primary responsibility for all aspects of portfolio accounting, regulatory monitoring and reporting, service provider oversight and serves as the single point of contact for all operations related funds inquiries. These functions cover a wide range of funds structures including mutual funds and hedge funds in various jurisdictions like US registered 40 act funds/ Luxemburg/ Offshore funds and a complex product range, which include equities, fixed income, currency and derivatives, money markets, ETFs. The group supports portfolio managers, Fund Boards, Controllers, Sales and Client relationship professionals by providing accurate and timely client account information and overseeing all aspects of operational risk across portfolios. This involves extensive interaction with internal and external parties to ensure effective oversight for existing business. The group continues to focus on best in-class client experience and working closely with the business to maintain and enhance client relationships.

YOUR IMPACT

Are you looking to apply your client service and analytical skills while deepening your understanding of asset management? Our Client operations team is seeking a professional who is looking to partner with our diversified client base and global business counterparts to provide best in-class client experience, define solutions and lead change across the operational infrastructure.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Relationship management with service providers to ensure excellent service delivery to Goldman Sachs and Liaise with internal Teams (Valuation group, Controllers, Trade management etc) to provide comprehensive service feedback to Vendors
• Assisting with the evaluation, selection, negotiation and onboarding of new vendors and ongoing compliance with Firm vendor policies
• Comply with internal risk frameworks and industry regulations to reduce risk and extract maximum value from our global network, connecting with stakeholders to lobby for internal or market change
• Holistic ownership and understanding of funds from a GSAM Operations perspective by understanding various fund structures, coordinating client issues across all operations teams and business partners, and act as a single point of contact for GSAM Operations
• Ensure accounting data accuracy and provide accounting policy oversight in order to create controlled environment for investment management process
• Trading desk support to include ad-hoc queries as well as ongoing business initiatives
• Proactively review indicators of operational issues/concerns with the goal of resolving such issues before client impact
• Review account level metrics (i.e. reconciling items on cash/position reconciliations, daily corporate actions, NAV Reconciliations, failing trades, standard/non-standard reporting deliverables), guidelines and regulatory breaches as defined by operating standards and research, escalate, remediate exceptions as appropriate
• Providing effective thought leadership in navigating evolving financial regulatory landscape and helping to develop technological solutions to build appropriate architecture
• Scalability analysis of workflow cost drivers and trends to help drive process improvements and efficiency, budgeting and cost allocation to various revenue producing desks

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Bachelor's degree required
• Be highly collaborative, team-oriented and strong consensus builder
• Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Previous experience in Operations, Accounting and/or Financial Services industry
• Demonstrate ability to partner across product groups, regions and functional responsibilities
• Be a strategic thinker, possesses strong facilitation and data gathering skills
• Attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure and to provide practical solutions
• Risk management focus