AWM, Fixed Income, Emerging Markets Trading, VP, New York

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 $2 trillion in assets under supervision, 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 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.

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. We are:
• Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services
• Advisors, understanding our clients' priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios
• Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients' investment decisions
• Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goals

The Fixed Income team manages over $800 billion for institutions, high net worth individuals and mutual fund investors. Our global investment process is coordinated across geographic regions with representation in New York, London, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney and China. Diversity is at the core of our ability to serve our clients and we make an unusual effort to identify and recruit the best person for every job.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Emerging Market Debt team is seeking an EM trader at the Vice President level based in New York. GSAM's EMD team manages over $40bn of dedicated EM assets across a broad range of products and investment styles.

Responsibilities

• Trade set up and best execution

• Working with portfolio managers and research analysts/Economists to identify value within the EM market

• Identifying and implementing security selection and relative value opportunities within specialized sectors both in EM Credit (sovereign, corporates) and EM Local.

• Working with portfolio managers to build and monitor credit risk in portfolios, including management of cash flows

• Developing and maintaining sell-side trading and syndicate relationships

• Recommending, allocating, and executing trades

• Maintaining and improving various trading tools and the accuracy of the data they employ

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of trading and/or sales & trading experience, preferably in fixed income Emerging markets credit, rates, and currencies. Buy side experience is a plus.
• An understanding of markets and a keen interest in fixed income
• Must possess strong quantitative and analytical skills with a strong attention to detail

• Excellent communication skills

• Strong work ethic

• Ability to work in a collaborative and dynamic environment

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $125000-$250000. 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.