Controllers - Birmingham - Associate - Software Engineering

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking an Associate in Software Engineering for their Birmingham office. In this role, you'll manage complex software systems, engage in financial engineering principles, and collaborate closely with business stakeholders. Ideal candidates have a degree in Computer Science and experience in modern programming languages. You'll have the opportunity to foster both technical and financial expertise in a dynamic and innovative environment.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and life insurance

Competitive vacation policies

Financial wellness programs

On-site fitness centers

Child care benefits

Professional development resources

Qualifications

• 1-4 years of hands-on software development experience preferably in Java, C/C++, Python, or Scala.
• Clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts.
• Strong full-stack technical design and development skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements to maintenance.
• Develop technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans.
• Facilitate and develop process workflows and data requirements.

Skills

Programming

Problem Solving

Data Structures

Software Design

Interpersonal Communication

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Controllers - Birmingham - Associate - Software Engineering location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Opportunity Overview sitemap_outline CORPORATE TITLE Associate language OFFICE LOCATION(S) Birmingham assignment JOB FUNCTION Software Engineering account_balance DIVISION Controllers

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

The Controllers division is responsible for financial control and regulatory obligations of the firm. They safeguard the assets of the firm through an independent scrutiny of the financial information and ensure accurate reporting to internal and external consumers. They provide critical metrics and related analysis to the firm’s and divisions’ leadership to navigate the evolving business strategy, including incumbent and strategic initiatives. Controllers play an important role in the changing landscape of the firm, including its new business ventures and acquisitions, and ensure that these new initiatives are in line with the regulatory expectations as well as controlled in terms of their incorporation into the firm.

Finance engineers help ensure the firm meets all of its financial control and reporting obligations. Working in small and nimble teams, we build critical and complex software to calculate profit and loss (P&L), measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory filings across the globe.

OUR Impact:

Finance Engineering is responsible for designing and implementing solutions to manage firm’s P&L, measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory obligations. Our global agile teams (based across Americas, EMEA and Asia) develop and manage the platforms, calculation engines, and analytical tools that controllers, risk management, and deal-making teams use to project, monitor and report externally to regulators for both regular business activity and under stress scenarios.

YOUR Impact:

Our team of engineers builds solutions to the most complex problems. We develop cutting-edge software and platforms that form the core of our key business and enable transactions to move in milliseconds. We provide real-time access to critical deal information and process billions of data points each day to inform firm-wide market insights and strategies. Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field. This position provides a unique opportunity to gain subject matter expertise in both technology and finance, and to directly engage with colleagues and senior management from across the business, Risk, Finance, and Engineering.

Why join the team?

• Tools & Technologies: You’ll program in Java and model data using Alloy/Legend – a data management and data governance open source platform that we will teach you.Read more on Bloomberg . Other technologies in use in our space: RESTful services, Maven/Gradle, Apache Spark, BigData, HTML 5, AngularJs/ReactJs, IntelliJ, Gitlab, Jira.
• Cloud Technologies: You’ll be involved in building the next generation of finance systems onto the cloud platforms, one of the key strategies for the division in which you’ll get exposure to technologies like AWS S3,Snowflake, EMR etc.
• Autonomy: You’ll have significant autonomy in designing and writing solutions to help our stakeholders deliver for the firm’s clients.
• Creativity: You’ll be encouraged to suggest improvements to products and to propose ways in which we can add value for our stakeholders.
• Interpersonal Communication: You’ll engage with data producers and consumers across all areas of the business to understand their requirements and to propose solutions tailored to their needs.
• Training: Your manager will support your professional development, allowing you time for training at work, helping you learn and grow within the organization, and providing opportunities for increasing responsibility.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

RESPONSIBILITIES

• In an Agile environment manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis to coding, testing, UAT, implementation and maintenance
• Develop high level and detailed technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans
• Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Finance
• Understand and respond to business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
• Build strong relationships with business partners
• Identify opportunities for cross-divisional collaboration and reuse of common solutions

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 1-4 years ofhands-on software development experiencepreferably inJava, C/C++, Python, or Scala,exposure to RDBMS and NoSQL datastores
• Strong programming and problem solving skills
• A clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
• Strong full-stack technical design and development skills and experience
• Comfortable with multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globallyABOUT 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

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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.

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

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