Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - FX Analytics Specialist - Associate/VP- London

Opportunity Overview sitemap_outline CORPORATE TITLE Associate language OFFICE LOCATION(S) London assignment JOB FUNCTION Portfolio Management account_balance DIVISION Asset & Wealth Management

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $3.14 trillion in assets under supervision globally, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals.

Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally and invests in the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds and sustainability. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies, customized partnerships, and open-architecture programs. The alternative investments platform is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the world's leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals. Goldman Sachs has over $3.0 trillion in assets under supervision globally as of December 31, 2025.

Portfolio Management and Platform Management Overview The Alternatives Portfolio Management Group is dedicated to optimizing investor performance and experience. The Platform Management team within the Portfolio Management group is focused on driving day-to-day portfolio decision-making. This encompasses structuring and allocating deals, capital activity, managing liquidity, and maintaining disciplined risk management to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across portfolios with a focus on optimizing fund performance and investor experience. The Platform Management team partners with investment teams, capital markets, engineering and investor relations to achieve superior outcomes for AWM's clients.

We are seeking a highly analytical individual to join the Platform Management team within Portfolio Management, as an FX Analytics and Trading Specialist. This role is pivotal in ensuring robust FX risk management across all portfolios. The successful candidate will be required to leverage existing divisional tools to support successful execution of foreign currency deal execution, and to play a central role interpreting ongoing FX delta across all our portfolios. This role plays a key part in improving workflow, facilitating cross-team collaboration, driving tooling innovation, and reducing operational risk.

Key Responsibilities & Activities

• Utilise divisional tools to access, analyse, and interpret portfolio FX delta data, providing actionable insights to the platform management team.
• Work closely with the FX trading team daily, taking ownership of workflow responsibilities related to exposure management, ensuring timely and accurate generation of relevant instructions.
• Ensure all trading orders are instructed to the trading team in a consistent and accurate manner while analysing and recommending the best counterparties with which to trade, based on several factors, including current and future exposure, collateral posting implications, and wallet share.
• Potential to assist with trading/execution as the role progresses.
• Partner with the trading team to provide actionable insights on which counterparties to prioritise for new trading opportunities by leveraging historical trading data and broader relationship fact patterns.
• Liaise with the Portfolio Strategy team to ensure FX risk strategy is effectively implemented as required, per portfolio.
• Work with deal management and fund management teams to ensure FX trading activities are well understood, and that liquidity management needs are adequately supported.
• Work closely with supporting teams including Controllers, Operations, and Engineering to ensure FX activities are well controlled, and to ensure alignment across the division.
• Contribute to the design and enhancement of FX-related divisional tools, supporting ongoing innovation and process improvement initiatives.
• Identify, escalation, and help mitigate operational risks within FX processes, championing best practices and continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3-5 years of prior experience in FX analysis, portfolio management, or financial risk management.
• Understanding of FX trading workflows and operational controls.
• Ability to analyse complex data sets and extract meaningful conclusions.
• Experience using financial and analytical tools to access and manipulate portfolio information.
• Proven track record of working effectively within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of process improvement methodologies and experience contributing to tool development projects.

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.

Competitive 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 centres. 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 centres that provide full time and emergency backup 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 programmes for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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