GBM Public, Agency Lending Trading, Analyst, Paris Paris · France · Analyst

JOB DESCRIPTION

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 that includes individuals who have a passion for the markets and who thrive in fast‑paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

At Goldman Sachs, our culture is one of teamwork, innovation and meritocracy. We often say our people are our greatest asset and we take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally.

BUSINESS SEGMENT AND ROLE OVERVIEW

Equities & FICC: We make markets in and clear client transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide. Through our global sales force, we maintain relationships with our clients, receiving orders and distributing investment research, trading ideas, market information and analysis.

Goldman Sachs Agency Lending (GSAL) offers a variety of securities lending services including Agency Lending, Auction and Administrative Services. We are responsible for negotiating and administering loans of securities (both equity and fixed income) across 35 markets (Americas, EMEA and Asia‑Pacific). Our client base covers a diverse range of institutions, e.g., investment managers, insurance companies and pension plans.

The person will work in the GS Agency Lending (GSAL) Trading Team in Paris performing Trading, Book Management, Risk Management and Reporting Tasks.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze client inventory and related demand to negotiate new loans and manage existing loans
• Analyze client data, provide reporting and transparency to clients, and respond to various client inquiries
• Create and distribute internal trading reports
• Minimize operational risk by working with relevant internal and external contacts
• Develop and manage day‑to‑day trading relationship(s) with counterparts

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Must have strong analytical and quantitative skills with high attention to detail
• Strong work ethic
• Strong interpersonal/relationship building skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) required
• Strong academic record with Bachelor’s degree, above or equivalent in finance, economics or a related discipline required

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.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more:

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.

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

Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer.