Asset & Wealth Management Operations-Dallas-Associate-Loan Corporate Actions

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Your Impact:

Are you looking to work in a fast-paced environment where your role has a direct impact on the global markets while working on continuous improvement initiatives? The Asset & Wealth Management Corporate Actions team is seeking a motivated professional who is looking to work closely with Deal Teams, Legal, Credit Risk and others to execute amendments, consents and waivers to credit agreements where Goldman Sachs is acting in a lending capacity. By monitoring the division's loan population, tracking loan corporate action events, and coordinating with internal decision makers and other operational teams to ensure timely responses back to external parties, you'll gain understanding and exposure across the front-to-back loan operations workflow and lending business within Asset & Wealth Management.

Our Impact:

Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted division that partners with all areas of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading, and asset management capabilities to clients around the world. Alongside this vital service delivery role, Operations provides essential risk management and control, preserving and enhancing the firm's assets and its reputation. Operations span all product lines and markets, and functions.

The Asset & Wealth Management Corporate Actions team supports the corporate action lifecycle events on loans, such as facilitating Goldman's vote as a lender to an amendment request from a borrower. We are responsible for sourcing corporate action event information, disseminating events to the impacted stakeholders and submitting GS's internal decision to the Agent/Company. We assess notifications received from external Agents/Borrowers/Deal Teams to determine urgency and impact to internal stakeholders and operations teams and coordinate internal review notifications accordingly. The Loans Corporate Actions team is a fast paced, client centric environment where team members must continually adapt to changes in the business, markets and regulatory environment. In addition, members of the team are expected to drive workflow changes to increase efficiency and control, develop and own new initiatives to support an expanding business, and contribute to the global strategy of the division. We seek team-oriented candidates who can demonstrate excellent analytical skills with the ability to manage competing tasks and prioritize risk accordingly. Team members are expected to be able to consistently deliver on day-to-day execution as well as contribute to the strategic industrialization initiatives.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate accurate and timely comprehension and management of Loan Asset Servicing events: Restructurings, Repricing's of Loans, Bankruptcies, etc.
• Build and manage relationships with various internal stakeholders in Operations, Credit Risk, Deal Teams, and other divisions as needed.
• Build and manage relationships with various external stakeholders such as external Agents', Legal Counsel, and Borrowers.
• Proactively address concerns raised by internal or external clients by conducting root cause analysis.
• Mitigate MNPI risk through maintaining accuracy in communications with the respective compliance teams and the business.
• Proactively work with global Operations business units to assess and streamline processes to mitigate risk or control issues and generate efficiencies.
• Participate in new business memos to help the business further expand their Loans portfolio.
• Daily interaction with senior management along with escalating and resolving issues as they arise.

Experience/Skills:

• Minimum 3 years Operations experience or comparable experience.
• Ability to work and adapt in a fast and challenging environment where priorities can change daily.
• Collaborative - works closely with teammates on daily workflow and sharing knowledge and key information with the team.
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills, ability to gather stakeholder support for initiatives across the teams and see them through to execution.
• Ability to re-engineer processes to reduce manual touchpoints and mitigate risk.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and communication skills.
• Able to take ownership of issues, handle multiple tasks and prioritize accordingly.
• High attention to detail and a high standard for accuracy and responsiveness.
• Change Management - the ability to identify where process improvements can be made to increase efficiency and control.
• Effective problem solver and skilled at gathering and analyzing data to guide decision making.

Preferred Qualifications:

• High level understanding of Asset Servicing at the macro level
• High level understanding of Loan lifecycles and Loan documentation structures and their impacts to operations teams (Credit Agreements, Amendments, etc.)
• Previous Corporate Loans Operations experience, preferably experienced with Asset Servicing, Deal Closing, or Middle Office functions
• Previous Team leader
• Microsoft Office application proficiency (advanced Excel or Business Intelligence experience is skills a plus)
• Fund Management operations experience

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