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YOUR IMPACT

As a Vice President in Global Risk Management within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, you will help protect our clients' capital and enable informed risk-taking across a diverse multi-asset platform. You will apply deep risk expertise, rigorous analysis and sound judgement to identify emerging risks, challenge constructively, and influence portfolio and business decisions. Working closely with portfolio managers, and senior stakeholders, you will strengthen risk governance, enhance transparency through high-quality reporting, and drive continuous improvement of tools, frameworks and processes across the firm.

OUR IMPACT

Global Risk Management sits at the center of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, providing independent oversight and governance for a global platform with over USD 3 trillion in assets under supervision across public and private markets, funds and separately managed accounts. Our mandate is to support sustainable growth by helping the business take risk thoughtfully-bringing transparency to portfolio exposures, stress and liquidity dynamics, counterparty and operational risks, and the broader control environment. We partner closely with portfolio management, trading, and control functions such as Legal, Compliance, and Firm-wide Risk to strengthen frameworks, improve monitoring and reporting, meet regulatory obligations and continuously evolve our risk practices in line with a fast-changing market and product landscape.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL:

As a senior Vice President within Global Risk Management at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, you will lead a small team of Multi-Asset risk specialists and partner closely with Multi-Asset CIOs and senior stakeholders. You will be responsible for:

• Lead, coach and develop a small team; set priorities, ensure high-quality delivery and foster a culture of constructive challenge
• Own senior relationships with Multi-Asset CIOs, portfolio managers and key stakeholders; provide independent perspectives that influence portfolio construction and risk appetite
• Drive enhancements to Multi-Asset risk capabilities and tooling (stress/scenario, factor & liquidity analytics, attribution) in partnership with Engineering and Technology
• Deliver risk and performance insights for MAS funds and OCIO mandates (objectives, benchmarks and peers), and lead regular review discussions with investment teams
• Oversee daily/weekly monitoring of key portfolio risks and ensure adherence to the independent risk governance framework
• Provide clear, decision-useful risk reporting to divisional and risk leadership on MAS business exposures and emerging themes

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

Qualifications and experience

• 10+ years of relevant experience in buy-side risk management, ideally supporting multi-asset strategies and/or solutions platforms
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior investment stakeholders (CIOs/PMs) and to influence decisions through independent, well-reasoned risk perspectives
• Strong understanding of cross-asset market dynamics, correlations and key risk drivers; experience with factor frameworks and multi-asset portfolio construction concepts
• Hands-on knowledge of core risk and performance analytics (e.g., VaR, stress/scenario analysis, tracking error, liquidity risk, risk/return attribution)
• Experience producing clear, decision-useful reporting for senior leadership and participating in governance forums/committees
• Proven people leadership skills (or clear leadership potential): coaching, developing talent, setting priorities and driving high-quality execution
• Strong quantitative and data skills; working knowledge of analytics/programming tools (e.g., Python) and comfort partnering with Engineering/Technology to deliver scalable improvements
• Highly organized, intellectually curious and proactive, with excellent written and verbal communication skills

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. 

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers. 

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