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At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. For us, it's all about bringing together people who are curious, collaborative and have the drive to make things possible for our clients and communities.

Operations is at the core of Goldman Sachs. For every trade agreed, every new product launched, or market entered, every transaction completed, it is Operations that enables business to flow. The Operations business partners with all areas of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading and asset management capabilities to clients around the world. Alongside this vital service delivery role, Operations provides essential risk management and control, preserving and enhancing the firm's assets and its reputation. Operations span all product lines and markets.

As an integral part of operations, we support the firm's businesses and other operational groups to design and execute controls over processes, data and infrastructure for exchange, trade and transaction, position monitoring, post settlement reconciliation and reporting, across the trading businesses and syndicate operations. 

We are responsible for ensuring that the firm is compliant with applicable laws and regulations and reporting accuracy for new and existing business flows as well as implementing quality controls over data supporting these functions. 

Our primary driver is to enhance the operations client experience in a risk and control oriented environment.

Fixed Income Securities supports the Fixed Income institutional desks with trade booking, confirmation, pre-matching and fails management. The team is also responsible for exception detection, research, resolution and escalation of position & cash differences in client, broker and inter-company accounts.

We are looking for a tech minded individual preferably with operations/middle office experience to focus purely on BI/AI within the wider fixed income middle office team. 

The role will primarily look to enhance and improve automation, reporting and data analysis across Fixed Income business lines, which tie back to our operational goals and path forward in efficiency gains.

JOB DUTIES:

• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Work with a wide range of stakeholders primarily across Operations and Engineering, demonstrating both verbal and written communication skills
  • Drive conversations with senior stakeholders to clearly articulate needs of the business, identify root cause issues, and influence the problem solving process
  • Leverage partnerships to ensure low code is provisioned in the context of the firm's wider technology architecture strategy
  • Advise on evolving solution applications while keeping a view of full low code toolkit through solution design forums
• Data Analysis and Reporting
  • Develop automated solutions which connect upstream data sources to end user platforms
  • Utilize any available established APIs and nurture our partnership with Engineering to create new APIs where required
  • Provide end users with data analytics and risk reporting, giving AWM stakeholders the opportunity to make data driven decisions
• Workflow Automation 
  • Identify manual processes which are inefficient and prone to errors, focusing on risk mitigation and resource capacity
• Business Unit Management
  • Drive conversations and lead the business intelligence programs for a variety of stakeholders, each with their own unique datasets and business needs
  • Coach and mentor business unit embedded specialists, ensuring that embedded specialists are meeting the strict governance standards 
  • Contribute to ever changing Business Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence risk and governance framework
• Artificial Intelligence
  • Apply AI tools and prompt engineering techniques to solve operational problems, improve workflows, and support scalable business solutions across Operations.
  • Partner with Operations stakeholders to identify business challenges, define use cases, and translate operational needs into practical AI-enabled solutions.
  • Design, test, and refine prompts and AI-assisted workflows to improve process efficiency, reduce manual effort, and mitigate operational risk.
  • Evaluate where AI capabilities can enhance business intelligence, reporting, data interpretation, and end-user decision making.
  • Work with Engineering and technology partners to ensure AI-enabled and low-code solutions align with the firm's broader technology architecture and governance standards.
  • Support the responsible use of AI by contributing to evolving business intelligence and artificial intelligence risk and governance frameworks

SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics / other relevant experience in financial companies in a role with a focus on data
• Relevant experience in an analytical, operations or similar role with a proven track record for managing multiple processes, functions and driving change.
• Experience in using business intelligence platforms (i.e. Alteryx, Tableau, Qlikview, Power BI, Server/Database maintenance, Aqua Data Studio)
• Developer skills including but not limited to: SQL, Python, R, Machine Learning and AI applications, Jira, Confluence
• Self motivated with the ability to act as an individual contributor and amongst the broader global BI team
• Familiarity with data and analytical tools such as SQL, Python, R, Jira, and Confluence in addition to problem solving, process improvement, and adoption of AI tooling
• Ability to develop cooperative and constructive working relationships with a strong sense of functional curiosity and passion for understanding the needs of the business

MINIMUM YEARS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Two (2) years of experience in Finance and/or Analytics

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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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.