Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Emerging Markets Trader - Vice President -London

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Emerging Markets Trader - Vice President - London

Job Description

Asset & Wealth Management Overview
A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth 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 $3 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.

Fixed Income & Liquidity Solutions Overview
Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions, within Public Investing, manages more than $1.7 trillion* in assets for a variety of clients, including private wealth mandates and institutional clients such as insurance companies, pension funds, and endowments. The team has a long history of investing across public fixed income strategies including rates, currency and credit on behalf of our clients. Investment ideas are created through collaboration between portfolio managers, research analysts, and traders.

Role Overview
Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Emerging Market Debt team is seeking an EMD trader at the Associate or Vice President level to be based in London. GSAM's EMD team manages over $40bn of dedicated EM assets across a broad range of products and investment styles.

Responsibilities

1. Sizing, allocating, and executing trades in bonds and derivatives.
2. Working with Portfolio Managers, Research Analysts and Economists to identify opportunities in EM markets.
3. Identifying and implementing security selection and relative value opportunities within specialised sectors of EM hard currency sovereigns, credit, and local currency markets.
4. Working with Portfolio Managers to build and monitor credit, duration and currency risk in portfolios.
5. Monitor rebalancing needs due to cash flows, index changes, client guidelines, etc.
6. Developing and maintaining sell-side trading and syndicate relationships.
7. Helping to further develop our trading tools and analytics.
8. Manage the process of exploring new investible markets and instruments with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

1. Ability to work in a collaborative global team and dynamic environment.
2. 3-5 years of Fixed Income trading and/or sales & trading experience.
3. Must possess strong quantitative and analytical skills with attention to detail.
4. Good communication skills.
5. Strong work ethic.