Quantitative Equity Portfolio Construction Analyst

Asset & Wealth Management, QIS, Quantitative Equity Portfolio Construction Analyst - New Yorklocation_onNew York, NY, United States

Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLEAnalyst

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OFFICE LOCATION(S)New York

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JOB FUNCTIONInvesting & Portfolio Management - Public

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DIVISIONAsset & Wealth Management

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SALARY RANGEUSD 90,000 - 130,000

YOUR IMPACT

Are you an intellectually curious, disciplined self-starter with a passion for financial markets and quantitative investing? The Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) team within Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is seeking an Analyst to join the Quantitative Equity Portfolio Construction team. In this role, you will be on the front lines of active portfolio management - combining economic rationale, mathematical optimization, and advanced analytical tools to drive daily rebalancing, risk attribution, and portfolio performance across our global equity strategies.

WHO WE ARE

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is one of the world's leading investment managers, providing institutional and individual investors with investment and advisory solutions across asset classes, industries and geographies. We help our clients navigate dynamic markets and identify the opportunities that shape their portfolios and long-term investment goals. We extend these global capabilities to the world's leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, individuals and family offices.

The Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) group is a market leader in quantitative portfolio management, using advanced quantitative methods to structure, manage, and monitor investment portfolios across quantitative equity, multi-asset, and alternative strategies. Within QIS, the Quantitative Equity team delivers active equity alpha, factor-based strategies, and customized portfolio solutions to investors.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

The ideal candidate is passionate about investment and motivated to outperform the market. We welcome individuals who are excited by the prospect of combining creative insights with focus on details of equity portfolio construction to make good investment decisions. Strong programming skills, solid understanding of statistics, and familiarity working with data are required. Experience working with equities is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Optimization and Rebalancing of Equity Portfolios

• Systematic Trade Generation and Execution Oversight

• Implementation and Testing of New Portfolios

• Cash Management for Equity Portfolios

• Portfolio Construction Research

• Investment Process Innovation & AI Automation

• Full oversight of managed portfolios including monitoring of portfolio composition, performance and risk

• SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Statistics, Math, Finance, or Engineering preferred

• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills

• Creativity and ability to think outside the box

• Passion for equity investment

• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment

• Solid understanding of statistics, linear algebra, and calculus

• Strong programming skills (i.e. Python, Matlab, R, C++, Java, or other languages)

• Exceptional attention to detail and strong operational discipline

• Salary Range

• The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $90000-$130000. 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.

• We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

• 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.

• Holiday & Vacation Policies

• 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.

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