YOUR IMPACT 
Looking for an ambitious, thoughtful, hardworking team player to drive bespoke access for key institutional clients and build relationships with corporate clients in Japan to maximize impact.

OUR IMPACT 
Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

TEAM DESCRIPTION

Corporate Access originates and curates content for clients via close collaboration with our team members across Asia Pacific. Our core clients are institutional investors including long-only asset managers, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension plans. We also identify, prospect and build relationships with corporate clients.

Content can be described as access to public and private corporates, industry experts, academics, government officials, bureaucrats, Goldman Sachs thought leadership and subject matter experts. Corporate Access originates and executes thematic and regional events to showcase timely topics and speakers. These events include some of Goldman Sachs’ largest flagship conferences globally, regional field trips, non-deal roadshows, corporate days and reverse inquiries. 

Corporate Access team is responsible for every aspect of the event including the agenda creation, marketing and branding, client targeting, and content merchandising for post-event distribution. Corporate Access team works closely with Sales teams within the Global Banking & Markets Division across Equities and Fixed Income Currency and Commodity (FICC) teams to understand clients’ needs and partner with research, banking, equity capital markets, private wealth and the Executive Office to identify and deliver best in class content and speakers to match those clients’ needs and requests.

In the life cycle of a trade, Corporate Access tends to sit at the beginning of that cycle, helping to drive idea generation and providing access to a variety of touch points so that an investor can make an informed investment decision in Asia and ideally, drive the execution of that investment through Goldman Sachs. 

Corporate Access is currently seeking a highly-motivated and experienced candidate to join our Tokyo office as an Associate / Vice President.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Drive and own the bespoke access process with key institutional clients
• Originate and execute various corporate access events including but not limited to conferences, corporate days, field trips & non-deal roadshows 
• Maintain close relationships with investors and Japanese corporates to arrange meetings on a timely and efficient basis
• Understand client needs and anticipate ways to enhance client service experience in close collaboration with sales teams
• Work closely with research and banking as required to build corporate relationships 
• Handle a high volume of requests supporting external clients as well as communication with internal stakeholders
• Participate in day-to-day client activities and broader strategic initiatives 
• Support thematic events showcasing Goldman Sachs’ Japan franchise to institutional investors 
• Drive business analytics with team to produce regular reporting on client activity
• Develop strong written and oral skills in communication to key internal and external clients in both English and Japanese

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR 

• Experiences in financial institutions is preferred. 
• Relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification with an excellent academic record
• Bilingual fluency in written and spoken English as well as Japanese necessary
• Strong attention to detail and strong organizational skills
• High degree of integrity and solid work ethic
• Entrepreneurial, proactive and self-motivated 
• Ability to maintain high standards despite pressing deadlines and comfortable working in a high pressure environment
• Ability to anticipate and solve problems quickly and efficiently and communicate solutions to internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to multi-task and be flexible to adjust focus quickly as demands change
• Demonstrated dependability and sense of urgency about getting results
• Hard-working and strong willingness to learn
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Team player with positive attitude
• Commercial focus, local knowledge of Japan market 
• Working knowledge and interest in finance and markets
• JSDA license required