Skills Sorter

Explore the skills we look for to shape the future of Goldman Sachs.   

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With a single application, apply to skillsets (Analyst/Associate titles with 1-5 years relevant experience) to be considered by multiple teams across different divisions.
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Audit (Finance and Technology)

Teams audit critical areas of the firm to minimize risk to regulators and external auditors, ensuring the firm is operating in a way that is safe and functional across the firm’s footprint. 

Relevant functions

Controllers
Internal Audit
Risk

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Business Finance, Budgeting, and Forecasting

Teams partner with business leaders to provide advice on the financial and regulatory considerations when executing business with our clients. 

Relevant functions

Asset Management
FICC and Equities (Sales and Trading)
Operations
Platform Solutions

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Business Operations

Our business operations teams are critical to the success of all businesses and the firm. Teams manage the day-to-day activity of our various businesses to ensure efficiency and increase value. Teams work with internal stakeholders to optimize our business processes by applying proven methodologies and leveraging cutting-edge technology, giving the firm a strategic and competitive advantage.

Relevant functions

Operations
Platform Solutions
Wealth Management

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Client Services and Sales Solutions

Teams work together to provide an exceptional client experience in order to help our clients achieve their financial goals.  Our client and customer service professionals across the firm demonstrate an unwavering commitment to managing their clients’ needs with their ability to problem solve, critically think and remain poised under pressure while executing trades or answering client questions on accounts, portfolios, and records.

Relevant functions

Asset Management
FICC and Equities (Sales and Trading)
Operations
Wealth Management

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Compliance

Teams manage the firm’s compliance, regulatory and reputational risks by ensuring adherence to laws, rules and regulations. 

Relevant functions

Global Compliance
Platform Solutions

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Credit Risk and Analysis

Credit risk & analysis is the set of skills by which one calculates the creditworthiness of a business or organization and is typically used by investing, financing, and capital market professionals

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

Teams build, control, maintain, and deliver large data sets in the most effective and efficient way.

Relevant functions

FICC and Equities (Sales and Trading)
Human Capital Management
Internal Audit
Operations
Platform Solutions
Risk

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Financial Accounting/Financial Planning

Teams collaborate with groups across the firm to develop and manage the firm's  forward looking strategic and financial plans, including profit, loss, and financial resources. 

Relevant functions

Asset Management 
Controllers
FICC and Equities
Platform Solutions

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Fund Accounting

Fund Accounting is the set of skills by which one helps manages the firm’s liquidity, capital and risk, and providing the overall financial control and reporting functions.

Investing

Clients are at the center of what we do and they require a team behind them that has a passion for investing, risk management experience and ability to understand unique clients’ needs.   

Relevant functions

Asset Management

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Investment Banking/Financial Modeling

In addition to being passionate about the financial services industry, markets and research process, individuals across these teams possess strong financial modeling skills, excellent written and verbal communication, are strategic and analytical thinkers, and hold a high level of Excel proficiency. 

Relevant functions

Asset Management
Executive Office
Investment Banking

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Investment Research

Research teams provide timely, key research to the investment teams, giving them the information they need to make investment decisions.

Relevant functions

Global Investment Research

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Investor Relations

Corresponding with investors and bankers and helping liaise transactions throughout the firm, our Investor Relations teams are often the front line for interacting with high value clients and ensuring their business with the firm is taken care of in a timely manner.

Relevant functions

Executive Office

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Legal

Providing advice to sustain the firm’s financial well-being and reputation, legal teams  are the firm’s second line of defense, helping ensure  the firm’s activities are conducted within the boundaries of the law and consistent with preserving and enhancing the firm’s reputation.

Relevant functions

Legal

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Marketing and Communications

Teams develop and implement holistic marketing and communication strategies that deliver the full value of the GS network and expertise to clients. They generate new business and build brand equity by raising visibility and amplifying engagement efforts locally and globally.

Relevant functions

Asset Management
Executive Office
Platform Solutions

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Payments/Card Products & Services

Teams are responsible for delivering smooth, secure, compliant, and timely payment flow for our clients and the firm. Teams develop best-in-class payment capabilities and provide expertise in payment rails like domestic or international wire transfers, automated clearing house “ACH,” credit card networks, disputes, fraud, advocacy, consumer accounts, and other payment type methods.

Relevant functions

Operations
Platform Solutions

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Product Management and Design

Product Management and Design teams across the firm operate with creative strategic thinking and are well versed in visual identity, style, and design systems--bringing a curiosity for industry best practices, ability to hunt down the latest advancements in trends, emerging patterns, and their applicability to our products.

Relevant functions

Platform Solutions

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Project Management

Strong project managers embody excellent judgment, identify risks or issues early and are able to manage multiple stakeholders with competing priorities. Importantly, they are results-driven and have a proven track record of execution against deliverables. 

Relevant functions

FICC and Equities (Sales and Trading)
Operations
Platform Solutions 
Wealth Management 

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Risk Management

Teams identify, monitor and anticipate the diverse array of risks the firm faces in serving clients and operating its global businesses, including credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk operational risk and model risk. 

Relevant functions

Asset Management
FICC and Equities (Sales and Trading)
Platform Solutions
Risk

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Sales

Sales teams help clients navigate markets to support their investment goals.

Relevant functions

Asset Management
FICC and Equities (Sales and Trading)
Investment Banking
Wealth Management

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Talent Management (Talent Acquisition, Compensation/Benefits, Talent Advisors)

Human Capital Management teams demonstrate strong problem-solving, quantitative analytics and stakeholder management skills and make an impact on the careers of our people. Delivering a best-in-class people strategy that attracts and motivates our evolving workforce, HCM teams design and implement strategies to help our people be their best at the firm and in their lives outside of it.

Relevant functions

Human Capital Management

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Trade and Transaction Management

We help ensure a seamless end-to-end transaction cycle when transferring ownership between buyers and sellers. Some of our key responsibilities include monitoring books and records relating to settlement of trades, performing trade and transaction management, providing custody services, and delivering global non-financial regulatory reporting including order, trade, transaction and position reporting for all products across jurisdictions.  

Relevant functions

Operations

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Trading/Quantitative Modeling

From developing automated trading algorithms for the firm and its clients to creating quantitative models and analytical tools to construct and manage client portfolios, trading and quantitative modeling are challenged to use cutting edge technological and quantitative techniques to solve complex business and client problems, to make markets, and manage risk. They are also responsible for reviewing and validating models to ensure accuracy. 

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Asset Management
FICC and Equities (Sales and Trading)

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Navigating the Offer

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