Job Description

YOUR IMPACT

The Margin Lending (or Securities-Backed Lending) function operates at the critical intersection of credit risk, market volatility, and client relationship management. By providing structured liquidity and leverage solutions secured by dynamic collateral portfolios, this team enables clients to optimize their investment strategies without liquidating core assets.

The candidate in this role will play a pivotal part in safeguarding the firm’s capital while supporting business growth. Through disciplined risk oversight, process optimization, and proactive stakeholder communication, the candidate will directly influence the team's ability to scale and manage complex credit portfolios safely.

OUR IMPACT

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs has long sustained a commitment to hiring and training outstanding leaders. Our business principles are rooted in integrity, a commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork. These values enable us to execute successfully a business strategy that is focused on extraordinary client service and superior long-term financial performance for our shareholders.

We conduct our business in increasingly complex markets. Our people must continually find new ways to provide access to capital, manage risk and provide investment opportunities for our clients to enable them to realise their goals. We judge ourselves on our ability to help clients anticipate and respond to changing market conditions and to create opportunities that merit the trust they place in us.

We are committed to growing our distinctive Culture and upholding our core values which always place our client's interests first. These values are reflected in our Business Principles, which emphasise integrity, commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork.

Operations

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, serving as internal business partners who develop the processes and controls, and help to specify the systems that deliver accuracy, timeliness, and integrity to our business.

Business Unit Overview

The Margin Lending Group, within Margin, Collateral and Valuations Operations is responsible for margin risk monitoring supporting the Prime Margin Lending (MCVO) and Global Security Services (GSS) businesses. The successful candidate will work within a team focusing on monitoring margin exposure for the related accounts. This will involve interacting with Business Partners including Credit, Risk, Compliance, Technology and Projects across London, New York, and Hong Kong.

& Responsibilities

The Margin Lending group focuses on a combination of day-to-day operational functions and value-added projects and initiatives. From an early stage, we develop and expect our analysts to think creatively and ‘outside the box’ as well as improving the daily process and taking responsibility and ownership for this to happen.

We promote cross training and ensure our Analysts develop a broad level of understanding across the varied departmental functions carried out. You can expect to be given early responsibility and in return you will be expected to contribute your own ideas to make a difference and add value to the group. The role will involve close interaction with other areas of the bank including Credit, Risk and Sales, therefore requiring strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Calculation and issuance of margin calls, including validation and follow up, ensuring calls are met in a timely manner

• Responding to all incoming queries

• Interacting with many different areas of the bank, in particular with Risk, Credit and Technology

• Proactively working on enhancing the team’s process and controls

• Resolution and escalation of all client disputes and queries

• Project and initiative management and participation within the team and across all regions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree

• Strong motivation to succeed, both as an individual and as a team

• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize and meet deadlines

• Effective problem solving and critical-thinking skills

• Ability to use discretion and good judgement

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a strong appreciation of client service

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in Operations or related field

• Control focused

• Ability to deal with multiple complex issues at the same time while meeting client deadlines