Equities Portfolio Analytics SPG Strategist - Analyst/Associate - India

WHAT WE DO

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Global strategist groups are at the critical centre of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

WHO WE LOOK FOR
Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Equities Portfolio Analytics SPG Strats team is a group of engineers that cover Equities 1-Delta and Synthetic Products Trading business around the globe at Goldman Sachs by helping them measure and manage risk and profitability for firm trading books. The team has a broad mandate which includes development of risk engines, reliable scheduling of trading desk risk computations, data warehousing and aggregation of business metrics including profit/loss and market risk. In addition to evolving the risk platform they are involved in specific exercises to optimize the business including analytics to understand capital and regulatory risk cost drivers as well as commercial optimizations based on intraday analytics and hedging tools. The team works closely with desk-specific quants and senior traders in the division to help maximize the profitability of Goldman Sachs' Equities 1-Delta and SPG franchise.

HOW YOU WILL FULLFIL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Work closely with trading to deliver innovative solutions to automate their manual workflows
• Develop, maintain and scale the risk management platforms for different businesses
• Provide impact in a variety of tactical work by being close to the day-to-day activity on the trading desks
• Deploy engineering solutions to solve problems which help desks run business more smoothly
• Identify and build improvements to system behaviour, control and monitoring tools.
• Be a part of projects that continue to improve the availability, stability and performance of the system
• Be part of the vibrant global portfolio analytics team and use your engineering skills to impact business decisions.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Strong programming skills in an object orientated or functional paradigm such as C++, C#, Java, Python etc.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Admirable sense of ownership and drive.
• Interest in and commitment to clean code principles and good coding practices
• Ability and willingness to participate in code review process and other forms of knowledge sharing.
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a diverse, global team.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centres around the world.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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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