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Global Banking & Markets, FICCs Credit Strats – Embedded Control Strat, Analyst / Associate, Paris

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City: Paris
Country: France

Responsible for designing, developing and maintaining controls for high-speed electronic trading and quoting platforms within FICC Credit Strats. The role involves documenting controls, collaborating with cross-functional teams, responding to regulator and control function requests, managing follow-ups to production incidents, and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Global Banking & Markets, FICCs Credit Strats – Embedded Control Strat, Analyst / Associate, ParisParis, Ile-de-France, France

Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLEAssociate

OFFICE LOCATION(S)Paris

JOB FUNCTIONQuantitative Engineering

DIVISIONGlobal Banking & Markets

Global Banking & Markets Division - Strats – Embedded Control Strats

In Global Banking & Markets 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 with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energised by a bustling trading floor. We combine engineering, research, risk management, control design and trading expertise to deliver solutions for our clients and advance the firm’s trading goals.

YOUR IMPACT

No trading system or business is complete without an integrated and thoughtful approach to controls and risk management. Our cutting-edge high-speed trading systems and products present a unique challenge in this regard. This role is critical to the successful innovation and delivery of our applications. It is a unique opportunity to interface across many levels and teams, backed by a strong mandate to deliver. We are hiring within several important areas:

FICC SMM is a systematic market making business focusing on Credit. SMM focuses on providing liquidity to clients, primarily via electronic channels using automated trading.

Our mission is to grow the franchise, increase innovation across the division, generate standalone revenues and run the business in a truly systematic fashion such that required human involvement/intervention scales sub-linearly with the number/volume of products we trade or clients we serve.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Designing, developing and maintaining controls for cutting-edge trading and quoting platforms.
Documenting trading controls and activities for consumers both inside and outside of the team.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable solutions.
Responding to information requests from regulators and control functions across the firm, such as Compliance, Risk and Internal Audit. The role may involve face to face interacting with both internal and external parties.
Managing work to address follow-ups to production incidents and other operational risk events.
Communicating complex technical concepts and findings to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Knowledge of electronic/algorithmic or equity derivatives trading systems and controls
Proficiency in creating and maintaining complex technical documentation.
Strong academic background in Computer Science or an analytical field such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering.
Knowledge of European market structure including understanding of Regulated Markets, MTFs and Systematic internalisers, or equity derivatives pricing & risk management.
A background in trading, development, testing, operations, audit, compliance, control design or operational risk or risk frameworks.
Proficiency in programming language like Python, Java or C++.
Interest in developments in the global financial regulatory environment.
The ability to communicate clearly and to lead conversations on technical topics.

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: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

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.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

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.

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