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**GBM - Public Dept-London-Associate-Matching, Shaping, Allocation** - **Role Overview:** Collaborate with clients, sales/trading desks, and stakeholders to resolve trade-related questions and issues. Manage real-time trade booking exceptions and monitor operational risk. Enhance systems and workflows with technology and business partners. - **Key Responsibilities:**resolve trade questions/issues, mitigate operational risk, manage trade exceptions, enhance systems, drive workflow improvement. - **Required Skills & Experience:** Proactive, creative problem solver, high attention to detail, 1-2 years in Finance, proficient in MS Office (especially Excel), adaptable to new programs.

Compensation: Not specified GBP
City: London
Country: United Kingdom

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GBM - Public Dept-London-Associate-Matching, Shaping, AllocationLondon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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CORPORATE TITLEAssociate

OFFICE LOCATION(S)London

JOB FUNCTIONMatching, Shaping, Allocation

DIVISIONGlobal Banking & Markets

OPERATIONS

Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted division that partners with all parts of the firm to provide banking, securities, and asset management services to clients around the world. In addition, Operations provides essential risk management and controls to preserve and enhance the firm's assets and its reputation. For every new product launched and every trade executed, it is Operations that develops and manages the processes and controls that enable business flow.

YOUR IMPACT

Are you looking to for an opportunity to be part of a team that works directly with institutional clients, sales & trading desks, technology and other business partners to offer best in class client service, solve complex problems and influence change? This is a great opportunity for an analytical and driven individual to utilize their professional skills by controlling risks and driving efficiencies in a fast paced environment.

OUR IMPACT

Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted division that partners with all parts of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading, and asset management capabilities to clients around the world. In addition, Operations provides essential risk management and control to preserve and enhance the firms assets and its reputation. For every trade agreed, every new product launched or market entered, every transaction completed, it is Operations that develops the processes and controls that makes business flow.

The Fixed Income Sales and Trading Services team provides risk management by facilitating the intraday processing and exception management of trade breaks both internally and externally for Fixed Income products. Various operational reconciliations are performed on trade date and post trade date to ensure successful trade flow and books and records balancing. The team also executes various projects aimed at balance sheet optimization and gaining operational efficiency.

The team works closely with team members across regional and global offices to facilitate the above functions. Individuals are required to develop a strong product, industry, and technical knowledge in order to facilitate the transaction flow and to anticipate and avoid potential trade problems. This position requires a high degree of communication with traders and salespeople in a fast paced setting and ongoing interaction with other Operations teams, Compliance, Credit, and Technology to resolve issues arising from trade execution, client queries, and new business. In addition, we are looking for a strong candidate that can help to drive workflow improvement across the organization

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

Work with Client, Sales/Trading desks and other stakeholders to resolve any open questions/issues

Become a subject matter expert to mitigate risk and drive efficiencies

Manage real-time trade booking exceptions internally between the trading desk and sales force

Monitor and control operational risk throughout the trade processing life cycle

Collaborate with our technology and business partners to enhance systems and workflows

Engage in various industry and regulatory initiatives in a constantly changing environment

Collaborate with technology teams on the implementation of process flow improvements and efficiencies

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WERE LOOKING FOR

Proactive, enthusiastic, and creative approach with very high attention to detail

Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment

Highly collaborative and team-focused with ability to interact effectively with a wide range of individuals

Effective problem solving and critical thinking skills along with the ability to use discretion and good judgment

At least 1-2 years of work experience in Finance or related field

Competency with MS Suite, especially Excel, and the ability to learn multiple programs quickly

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.

Were committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

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.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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