Job Description

Division Summary

Goldman Sachs' Strats business unit is a world leader in developing quantitative models and technologies to solve complex business problems. Working within the firm's trading, sales, banking, and asset management divisions, strats use their mathematical and scientific training to create financial products, advise clients on transactions, measure risk, and identify market opportunities. Investment Banking Strats are involved in marketing, structuring, pricing, and executing transactions for large corporations and institutions in the capital markets and M&A. We develop state-of-the-art quantitative and analytical methods for advising clients and build financing and risk-management solutions across products and industries.



Investment Banking Strats are both investment bankers and innovators who create analytics and scalable technology platforms that will shape the future of investment banking and how we connect with clients. Direct participation in client interactions, deal executions, and other core commercial activities allows us to be in the optimal position to develop technical innovations that create economic leverage and differentiate the firm. We ensure maximum technical efficacy by encouraging fluency in the latest quantitative models, data science, data engineering, and software platforms through peer learning, MOOC-like curated learning, and online training resources.



Our team members are quantitative engineers, financial engineers, and data scientists who share a passion for investment banking and the financial markets.

Job Summary & Responsibilities

We are looking for an Associate / Analyst to join the Investment Banking M&A Quant Advisory team in Bengaluru. This is a desk strat role. The position involves solving business problems using large and complex financial datasets and working in tandem with Investment Bankers across different industry and regions. We produce differentiated client analytics, which are utilized in M&A deals and adding further data-driven content in coverage teams' interaction with clients. We utilize machine learning and big data analysis tools to create proprietary targeting solutions.





A successful candidate must act as a local liaison with our global team, and interact with Classic Banking, the Financing Group, Global Markets, and other Investment Banking Engineering teams. We expect them to be self-led, entrepreneurial, and capable of managing the delivery and adoption of key products.




Responsibilities


Develop state-of-the-art quantitative and analytical methods for targeting new transaction opportunities.

Develop supportive ideas and solutions to solve questions from both internal and external clients, which can cover deal performance analysis, competitor analysis, and deal execution strategy.

Develop new tools to make data and analytics accessible to a broad range of internal users.

Program in Python or other languages utilizing machine learning and statistical methods.

Create and maintain curated datasets based on raw data sources from multiple vendors that best serve our analytics and different business purposes.

Build reports, analyses, and alerts to efficiently generate materials and data visualization for internal management, business monitoring, risk management, and opportunity targeting.



Basic Qualifications, Skills & Experience


Bachelor's or advanced degree in a quantitative/ STEM discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics etc.)

2+ years of quantitative modeling and development experience Strong quantitative / analytic reasoning and problem-solving abilities Strong technical and computer programming skills in an Object-oriented programming language such as Python

Strong data management skills in data querying languages including SQL and MongoDB Strong oral and written communication skills Strong interpersonal skills; desire and ability to play on a team Strong interest in finance, investment banking, and the capital markets Results-oriented work ethic based upon responsibility, enthusiasm, and pride in work

Preferred Qualifications


Experience in M&A and / or Capital Markets

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We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.


Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.


Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.


Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.


Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).


Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.


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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Bengaluru
JOB FUNCTION
Banking Analysis
DIVISION
Global Banking & Markets