Matching, Shaping, Allocation

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

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Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a qualified professional for Equities Synthetic Client Ops in Singapore. The role involves supporting front-to-back post-execution activities for equity derivatives, ensuring accurate booking and risk controls across the trade lifecycle.

You will interact with trading desks, clients and internal teams to enable efficient, compliant operations. Applicants should have experience in middle office functions, strong product knowledge, and the ability to work under pressure

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of middle office experience (Associate) or 5 years (Executive Director).
• Solid understanding of equity derivative products and related cash securities.
• Strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Understand the operational lifecycle by engaging stakeholders including clients, trading desks and brokers to enable business and mitigate risk.
• Review trade flow with product experts to build risk control and commercial awareness.
• Identify efficiency opportunities to improve process flow and scalability.
• Decompose regulatory and operational requirements and design robust solutions.
• Own and oversee front-to-back operational flow for seamless trades and new business.

Skills

Middle office

Equity derivatives

Teamwork

Client relationships

Communication

Leadership

Job description

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital, and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals.

ABOUT OUR ROLES

Are you looking to join a dynamic and fast paced team, applying your analytical and problem-solving skills for maximum impact, whilst deepening your knowledge of Equities? Equities Synthetic Client Ops is seeking a professional who is looking to partner with our business and other internal and external stakeholders to provide market leading business enablement and risk and control services.

Our team of critical thinkers partners with groups in all areas of the firm to perform financial analytics, reporting, data analytics, and engineering. Our division also provides critical operations design and handles capital markets operations to ensure business flows smoothly across our global offices. From day one, team members play a vital role in upholding the three Operations principles of client focus, process innovation, and risk management.

Equities Synthetic Client Ops provides front to back post-execution support to all equity based derivative activity in Asia. The Middle Office team has critical focus on front office day to day risk and trading surveillance, new issuances, client service, corporate actions processing and strategic firm and business infrastructure projects.

The team acts as first point of contact for the various Equities Trading desks, assisting in the execution of both new client and hedging activity. Clients execute trades across a range of products e.g., Cash Eq, Futures, Swaps etc. and it is the team’s responsibility to ensure positions are booked and maintained correctly in our risk systems. There is a strong emphasis on knowledge and expertise which requires that all team members are fully versed in products and systems used as well as the processes and procedures that must be followed when performing day to day tasks.

JOB RESPONSBILITIES

• Prepare to gain a comprehensive understanding of the operational process lifecycle by interacting with internal and external stakeholders including clients, trading desks, brokers, Sales, Structuring, and other federation teams to work toward the shared goal of business enablement and risk mitigation
• Partner with a team of product experts to review all operational aspects of the trade flow while gaining strong technical knowledge, risk control, and commercial awareness
• Use your inquisitive mind set to identify efficiency opportunities with respect to process flow methodology as well as enhance scalability
• Leverage your quantitative skills to decompose complex regulatory and operational process requirement, and propose creative, robust solutions
• Oversight & ownership of the full front to back operational flow ensuring that seamless execution of trades, new business, and flow enhancements
  

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 3 years (Associate) or 5 years (Executive Director) working experience in a middle office function
• Ability to demonstrate a sound of understanding of a range of Equity Derivative products as well as Cash Securities
• Strong Team-working skills: For working with internal stakeholders both locally and globally
• Track record in the development of client relationships and key stakeholders, both internally and externally
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to thrive under pressureStrong leadership skills essential – this role will require a self-starter who can manage competing deadlines and can prioritize appropriately
  

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. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

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.

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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