Trading Desk Strat - Quantitative Engineering - Analyst - NYC - Global Banking & Markets New Yo[...]

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Quantitative Engineering Analyst to join its Trading Desk Strat team in New York City. This role involves developing analytical tools, enhancing trading efficiencies, and collaborating with traders to solve complex financial problems, leveraging a strong background in engineering or mathematics along with programming expertise.

Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

Competitive vacation policies

Financial wellness & retirement support

Child care & family care services

On-site fitness centers

Qualifications

• Drive to investigate and learn new ideas.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Good judgement to deliver robust solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain analytical tools for SPG custom baskets business.
• Collaborate closely with trading team for accurate risk management.
• Identify opportunities to improve sales and trading efficiency.

Skills

Quantitative problem solving

Technical skills

Programming in Python

Programming in Java

Collaboration

Education

Strong academic background in engineering

Relevant field of computer science or mathematics

Job description

Trading Desk Strat - Quantitative Engineering - Analyst - NYC - Global Banking & Markets location_on New York, New York, United States

Job Description - Trading Desk Strat - Quant Engineering

What We Do

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.

Trading desk strategistsare at the cutting edge of our business, solving real-world problems through a variety of analytical methods. Working in close collaboration with traders and salespeople, our help solve complex financial and technical challenges that power the businesses.

Within SPG, our team is responsible for utilizing modern and sophisticated technical and quantitative techniques to enhance and further develop custom basket offering. This includes applying quantitative analysis for creation of custom baskets along with automation of our quoting, hedging and risk management activities.

Your Impact

You’ll be part of a diverse and talented team, applying your advanced scientific training to tackle new and exciting problems within our Synthetic trading business.

Role Responsibilities

Develop and maintain analytical tools for SPG custom baskets business

• Development of software infrastructure for pricing, quoting and hedging of Equity custom basket products
• Identify opportunity to improve sales and trading efficiency through automation and tooling
• Scale the business by increasing automated risk management for exposures to Equity, FX etc
• Collaborate closely with the trading team to ensure daily accurate risk management
• Form strong partnerships with trading, sales, quants, operations and engineering teams

Who We Look For

An ideal candidate would have strong quantitative and technical problem solving skills, drive to investigate and learn new ideas, and good judgement to deliver quick yet robust solutions.

Skills & Experience We’re Looking For:

• Strong academic background in a relevant field engineering, computer science, or mathematics
• Strong programming skills in a modern programming language (e.g. Python, Java) and familiarity with object-oriented design principles
• Ability to work as a member of a global team and deliver results quickly
• Ability and willingness to pick up new business and/or technical knowledge
• Ability to work in a dynamic both on details and fast- paced environment and deliver accurate results quickly
• Ability to solve problems and to explain underlying ideas

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $110000-$125000. 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 availableto active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .

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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