Asset & Wealth Management, Wealth Management, Global Leadership Team, Strategy and Execution, Analyst - New York

Goldman Sachs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking an exceptional Associate to help shape Wealth Management’s strategic direction in a dynamic, global setting. You will analyze market trends, size opportunities, and craft actionable recommendations that influence growth, profitability, and multi-year planning.

The role requires strong analytical, communication, and project-management skills, with a track record of delivering high-quality presentations and working across a matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 2+ years of experience in the financial services industry or related field.
• Excellent writing and presentation development skills to translate complex concepts into concise narratives.

Responsibilities

• Develop WM growth strategy materials for internal and external audiences.
• Conduct wealth management competitor research and identify themes and positioning insights.
• Facilitate cross-functional offsites and meetings with WM leadership and stakeholders.
• Manage WM KPIs and drive key initiatives across Wealth Management.

Skills

Analytical

Problem solving

Presentation skills

Excel & PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

YOUR IMPACT

Are you an exceptional Associate ready to tackle the most critical strategic questions for a rapidly expanding global business? We are seeking a visionary and highly analytical individual with a strong work ethic and a proven ability to innovate. In this pivotal role, you will join a high-performing team dedicated to driving Wealth's future success and competitive advantage. You will be instrumental in identifying and sizing groundbreaking opportunities, meticulously assessing relevant industry trends, and developing impactful recommendations that directly influence our growth, profitability, multi-year planning, and competitive dynamics. This is your chance to make a significant, tangible impact within a world-class financial institution.

OUR IMPACT

Wealth Management

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.

The Global Leadership team is a team within Wealth Management that provides support and guidance to the Senior WM Executives, Regional Management Teams, Private Wealth Advisors, and many other business enablers in daily business operations.

The Associate for this role will work across the organization with other areas such as Business Unit and Divisional COOs, Product, Finance, Investor Relations, and Marketing. The multi-faceted role requires an individual with strong analytical, problem solving, quantitative, communication, presentation, and project management skills who is capable of multitasking across several large projects.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Work with management to deliver clear and consistent WM growth strategy and other presentation materials to internal (Board, EO, Management Committee, Operating Group) and external audiences
• Conduct wealth management competitor research to uncover key themes, drivers of industry change, and evaluate GSWM’s relative positioning and provide recommendations
• Facilitate cross functional strategic offsites and other meetings between GSWM Leadership, business units, and other key stakeholders
• Manage WM key performance indicators and drive and execute key initiatives across WM

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree required
• Strong academic record and 2+ years of experience in the financial services industry
• Knowledge/experience in wealth management a plus
• Excellent writing and presentation development skills that can take complex concepts and create concise narratives for presentation and discussion
• Experience conducting market and competitor research preferred, including familiarity with corporate filings and financial statements (e.g., Form 10-K) to drive insights and inform recommendations and action plans
• Effective relationship building skills and the ability to work in a matrixed, collaborative organization
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities and shifting timelines
• Self-starter who learns quickly and is attentive to detail. Strong team player
• Highly proficient at Excel and PowerPoint

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.

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

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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.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $85000-$160000. 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.