GSAM Quantitative Investment Strategies Associate

• Create marketing content by leveraging our suite of quantitative analytics
• Devise scalable, automated solutions to prepare, update, and enhance our marketing collateral
• Working with ETF Teams to prepare marketing materials and support client requests for QIS ETFs.
• Conduct client-specific analysis focused on raising and retaining assets within the business
• Work closely with the investment team to gain investment insight to be used in our marketing collateral and identify and research custom client solutions.
• Analysis including data exploration, backtests, carve-outs, performance attribution, competitive analyses, peer group analyses and overall market research.
• Serve as product expert on Quantitative investment strategies to both internal and external clients, preparing performance reports, performance commentaries, client request for proposals and client due diligence questionnaires
• Conduct competitive analyses, peer group analyses and overall market research for our strategies
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple projects in parallel

Basic Qualifications:

• Quantitative orientation; finance and statistics knowledge; Experience and background with quantitative investment strategies preferable
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills
• Computer programming background or experience (experience with a programming language such as C / C++, Java, Python, R, and/or MATLAB)
• Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Thrives in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
• Strong interest in the financial markets and good investment sense/commercial instinct
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Organized and deadline driven. Disciplined approach to following up, timeliness, and seeing projects through to completion.
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Creativity and problem-solving skills