Asset Management 

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset 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 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.

External Investing Group (XIG)

The External Investing Group (XIG) is responsible for identifying, researching and selecting leading third-party investment managers. The group provides investors with advisory and investment solutions across leading private equity funds, co-investment strategies, secondaries, hedge fund managers, GP stakes, real estate managers, public equity and fixed income strategies.

With over 350 professionals across 11 offices globally, XIG helps institutional and individual investors with their program design, manager diligence, portfolio construction and risk management. The investment solutions in XIG have a long history and our programs have seeded and partnered with many of the world's most prominent alternative investment managers.

Today, XIG oversees over $340 billion in client assets across portfolios of both customized and commingled fund solutions as one of the world's broadest, deepest and longest-standing “open architecture” programs. We manage globally diversified programs, targeted sector-specific strategies, customized portfolios, and a range of advisory services. Our investors generally access opportunities through new fund commitments, secondary market investments, co-investments, seed capital investments, investment manager equity / revenue share stakes, or fund of fund solutions.

Client Portfolio Solutions - Private Equity

The Client Portfolio Solutions team is responsible for managing investor relations across the External Investing Group (XIG) private equity investment businesses. These responsibilities include structuring, launching and fundraising of new private equity funds, building client portfolio construction proposals and monitoring its execution, development and production of marketing and portfolio performance materials, collection and analysis of relevant qualitative and quantitative market data, manage communication and platform wide updates regarding XIG private equity funds, and ongoing development of unique investment solutions for our clients.

Principal Responsibilities

• Produce and update marketing and client materials, product profiles, pitch books, performance analyses, annual meeting materials, and other ad hoc client portfolio updates related to XIG private equity strategies
• Work with senior team members in managing client deliverables and communications, as well as new business development activities such as completion of requests for information (RFIs) and due diligence questionnaires (DDQs) during fundraising
• Effectively articulate the role of private equity strategies within a client’s portfolio and explain to internal and external stakeholders the investment strategy
• Produce scenario analyses and build investment pacing proposals for customized portfolios with exposure across a broad range of private market strategies
• Manage data room access and content for fundraises, including case studies, sample client reporting and other documents
• Answer questions from sales teams across all channels (private wealth, institutional, third party distribution) related to XIG private equity funds
• Coordinate closely with investment team and other internal stakeholders such as legal, risk management, operations, compliance, controllers and tax in order to respond to requests from clients, sales teams and senior management
• Evaluate investment performance, portfolio exposures, concentrations, and manager developments for customized private equity portfolios 
• Client management including addressing investment inquiries, relaying information on notable external manager updates and portfolio companies, as well as preparation for ongoing client discussions
• Overall serve as product manager and key point person to internal and external stakeholders on private equity products

Qualifications

• Strong interest in private markets and investor relations
• Excellent analytical, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
• Attention to detail and ability to deliver high levels of accuracy
• Knowledge and understanding of Excel, PowerPoint and Word and adaptability to learn other software products
• Candidate must be a team player and self-motivated, demonstrating a willingness to take on more responsibility over time