Asset & Wealth Management, Alternatives Capital Formation, Private Equity, Associate - New York

Job Description

Position: Alternatives Capital Formation, Associate (Private Equity)

Location: 200 West Street, New York, NY

About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $2 trillion in assets under supervision. As a primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

Alternatives Capital Formation (ACF) is a part of the Client Solutions Group (CSG) within Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). ACF manages capital raising and strategy for alternatives investments across the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, growth equity, sustainability, secondaries, GP stakes, and hedge funds / liquid alternatives. Within ACF, team members work within product verticals and collaborate across alternatives strategies to identify portfolio-wide solutions. They also partner with other teams within ACF, and across CSG, investing teams and wealth management teams. Professional development initiatives provide opportunities to enhance expertise across all alternative investment products, and to sharpen market knowledge from industry experts investing across the Firm. This specific role sits with ACF Equity within the Corporate Equity/Buyout vertical.

Principal Responsibilities

• Marketing and Fundraising: Assist with all aspects of the marketing and fundraising cycle for new flagship private equity funds and related vehicles
• Investor Reporting: Produce and update investor materials, including marketing presentations and other collateral, performance and data analysis, and update calls
• Due Diligence and Investor Relations: Help complete due diligence questionnaires, support the fulfillment of investor inquiries, and manage and organize data rooms
• Client Engagement: Select Investor interaction with new and existing investors on regular portfolio updates, ongoing investor requests and ad hoc client projects, and investor tracking
• Fund Analysis: Collaborate directly with the Investment team to analyze key metrics and identify effective messages for investor communications about investments, the business, the market environment, and competitive positioning
• Cross Functional Exposure: Collaborate with stakeholders across the broader product team, client advisors, fund finance, legal, and compliance to develop and execute product strategy
• Internal Reporting and Collaboration: Project management of fundraising and responding to questions internally from senior management and sales channels (private wealth, institutional, third-party distribution) related to the platform
  
  

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent communication (written and oral), analytical and interpersonal skills
• Strong judgement and problem-solving capabilities
• Attention to detail with proven experience of delivering high levels of accuracy
• Flexibility to handle multiple tasks and work well under pressure
• Strong organizational skills to manage production of a high volume of quality work within tight timeframes, often including multiple simultaneous projects
• Teamwork orientation and self-motivation, demonstrating a willingness to take on more responsibility over time
• 3 years of experience in a similar or related role, previous experience in Investment Banking or Investing also applicable
  
  

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $100000-$170000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .