Goldman Sachs GBM Public Structured Credit Trading Analyst London 

United Kingdom, England, London 

992842666

Scope of Role:

• Structuring and Diligence – Structure secured lending transactions acrossTotal Return Swaps,Private Equity, Private Credit, and Corporate sectors. Fundamental diligence and analysis of collateral and counterparties.
• Documentation – Preparation of term sheets, as well as review and negotiation of complex legal documents related to lending transactions.
• Product development – Collaborate to monitor market developments, reverse engineer structures in the market, and devise novel and unique features to optimize financing; understanding the implication of and solving regulatory, structural and market challenges.
• Model and research development – Work to develop financial models in support of transaction execution, rating agency interactions and investor dialogue. Work to identify areas of research that are critical to product development, risk measurement within transactions, or investor education
• Communication – Ability to interact with internal and external clients, including structurers, bankers, finance teams, legal counsel, rating agencies, and accountants. We expect that this professional will be a key part of our client franchise and will participate in and travel to meetings and client events
• Risk Management – Active risk management and monitoring across the public and private side of the book, discuss existing and new strategies to effectively monetize the risks in the book in a volatile environment.

Minimum education and experience required:

• Strong academic record with Bachelor’s degree, equivalent or above in a technical discipline (e.g. Maths, Physics, Engineering, Economics or Management) required. 2-3 years prior experience within investment banking / financial services industry required, preferably in an area that involves intensive fundamental credit research.

Qualifications Skills required:

• A curious mind and desire to be a generalist. Our focus is broad, as well as deep.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and approach to solving quantitative and qualitative problems
• Structured products or lending experience and demonstrated knowledge of fixed income markets
• Demonstrated ability to perform detailed credit analysis in private or public markets
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, especially reasoning from first principles when presented with novel asset-types and legal structures
• Comfort with drawing conclusions and making decisions with incomplete information
• Demonstrated financial modeling skills to understand and develop deal structure and cash flow waterfall models for revolving and amortizing transactions
• Technology skills including experience with Microsoft Excel. Python experience preferred.
• Ability to communicate clearly and anticipate context and follow-ups