Product Controllers-Analyst

Job description

About Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group is a bank holding company and a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm. Goldman Sachs provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and other major financial centers around the world.

Business unit overview

The Controllers group is responsible for safeguarding the firm's assets: to help maintain the integrity of Goldman Sachs' finances and expenditures. Through careful consideration and analysis of firm finances, objectives, and strategies, we ensure that the firm's businesses continue to be profitable and efficiently run. Controllers also ensure that all business practices comply with financial and regulatory requirements worldwide. Since contact with virtually every part of the firm is essential to Controllers, professionals in the department experience Goldman Sachs businesses, products, and sophisticated technology systems in depth.

Your impact

Would you like to utilize and build your accounting and finance knowledge as a controller for the principal investment and lending businesses of Goldman Sachs? We are looking for a team player with strong accounting and product knowledge and a passion for finance to support the Asset Management Division which primarily focuses on the long-term investment objectives of the firm.

Responsibilities

• Intelligently monitor trading activities to ensure the business is supported in a controlled manner.
• To be fully informed of all developments and issues in their trading areas.
• Work effectively with the Business and other Federation teams, including Operations, Risk, Tax, Technology & Treasury.
• Assess risk inherent in trading positions, whether market, compliance or reputational risk, etc.
• Prepare daily P&L and other financial analyses for the firm.
• Perform independent price verification on trading inventories.
• Month-end procedures preparing financial statements for posting to the firm's general ledger.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of financial products and market awareness
• Strong communication skills
• Team player
• Strong character and control mindset, able to work under pressure
• Self-confidence to interact with various internal clients
• Excellent MS Office skills and highly numerate
• Willing to take on extra responsibilities.