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Global Banking & Markets Operations - Equity Derivatives and Structured Products - New York - Vice President

New York, NY, United States

Job Description About the Role

Goldman Sachs is seeking an accomplishedSenior Vice President to leadPost-Trade Operations for Equity Derivatives and Structured Products in New York. In this senior leadership position, you will oversee critical operational functions supporting ourFlow Derivatives, Strategic Derivatives, and Exotics/Structured Products trading desks.

This is a high-impact role responsible for running three core teams while driving transformation initiatives to build operational scale, strengthen risk management, and modernize processes through technology and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and managethe Equity Derivatives Middle Office, Exotic Trade Review, and Securitized Products Servicing teams, ensuring accurate, timely, and controlled processing across the trade lifecycle.
• Oversee trade capture, validation, confirmation, settlement, and lifecycle event managementfor flow and exotic equity derivatives and structured/securitized products.
• Provide front-to-back trade supportfor structured equity derivatives, acting as a key liaison between trading desks and operational functions to resolve trade discrepancies and booking issues.
• Serve as a product specialistand subject-matter expert, supporting query resolution on complex products for internal stakeholders and clients.
• Validate economic termsof new trades, ensuring accurate capture of complex/exotic structures and lifecycle events (e.g., fixings, knock-ins/outs, barriers, corporate actions).
• Perform daily P&L and position reconciliation, investigating and resolving breaks between front-office, middle-office, and back-office systems.
• Strengthen the risk and control environment, proactively identifying operational and market-risk-adjacent exposures across supported products.
• Partner with Market Risk and Financeto support valuation reviews, exposure monitoring, and the operational dimensions of risk reporting.
• Define and track KPIs/KRIs, reporting on operational performance and risk metrics to senior management.
• Support a fast-paced, volatility-and-derivatives-focused environment, balancing rigorous controls with the agility required to support active trading strategies.
• Drive scalable processesthat accommodate high-volume, complex derivative flows.
• Drive operational transformation, identifying opportunities to eliminate manual processes and implement automation and AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner closelywith Sales, Trading, Structuring, Origination, Legal, and other Operations functions to support business growth.
• Develop talent, building a high-performing, future-ready team and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Experience Required

• 10+ years of experiencein post-trade Operations, Middle Office, Trade Support, or a related function within a sell-side or buy-side institution.
• Deep subject-matter expertisein equity derivatives (flow and exotic) and structured/securitized products, including trade lifecycle, valuation, and lifecycle event management.
• Strong understanding of P&L, reconciliation, and trade bookingacross front-to-back systems.
• Proven leadershipof operational teams with a track record of delivering transformation at scale.
• Strong product knowledgeenabling credible engagement with Sales, Trading, Structuring, Origination, and Legal.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

Preferred / Strong Plus

• Ability to code(e.g., Python, SQL) and hands-on experience leveragingAI toolsto drive process automation and analytics.
• Exposure to market risk concepts(Greeks, sensitivities, VaR) and valuation methodologies for complex derivatives.
• Professional designation such asCFA, FRM, or CQF.
• Experience implementing target operating models, vendor platforms, or workflow automation in a derivatives Operations context.

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.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $100000-$235000. 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 availableto active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .

Job Info

• Job Identification 175162
• Job Category Vice President
• Posting Date 08/31/2026, 04:26 PM
• Locations New York, NY, United States

Healthcare & Medical Services

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

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

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).

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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