Job Description

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.

OUR IMPACT

GLOBAL MARKETS DIVISION :

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.

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 :

o Strong academic background in a relevant field - Mathematics, engineering, computer science, or economics background, including a quantitative understanding of statistics and probability

o Strong programming skills in a modern programming language (C++, Python, Java or equivalent language) and familiarity with object oriented design principles

o Ability to work as a member of a global team and deliver results quickly

o Ability to solve technical problems and explain the underlying ideas to a non-technical audience

Preferred Qualifications :

o Strong written and verbal communication skills

o Knowledge of financial markets, in particular, understanding of one delta products, and financial mathematics is a plus

o Successful track record of building scalable systems with clearly defined SLAs in a financial setting.

o Entrepreneurial spirit

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. 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. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

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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.


Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.



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