Asset & Wealth Management, Platform Management, Analyst/Associate, Sydney
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Job Description
A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $3.14 trillion in assets under supervision globally, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long‐term performance. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals.
Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally and invests in the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds and sustainability. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies, customised partnerships, and open‐architecture programmes. The alternative investments platform is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the world's leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals. Goldman Sachs has over $3.0 trillion in assets under supervision globally as of 31 December 2025.
PLATFORM MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW
The Alternatives Portfolio Management Group is dedicated to optimising investor performance and experience. The Platform Management team, within the Portfolio Management group, is focused on driving day‐to‐day portfolio decision‐making. The Platform Management team partners with investment teams, capital markets, engineering and investor relations to achieve superior outcomes for AWM's clients. Platform Management consists of two roles:
* Fund Management: responsible for developing and executing liquidity strategies across private market portfolios, managing capital activity, analysing deal allocations, recommending optimal deployment of investable capital in line with fund and firm guidelines, and conducting performance attribution analysis.
* Deal & Structuring Management: responsible for the ownership and maintenance of complex fund structures, including cash movement, deal allocations, foreign currency management, deal execution, and pipeline management.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES PLATFORM MANAGEMENT: FUND MANAGEMENT
* Perform daily liquidity management and prepare forecasts to evaluate current and projected funding needs. Develop liquidity recommendations and collaborate with stakeholders to execute capital activity and leverage facility actions.
* Conduct attribution analysis to break down historical portfolio returns and drive improvements in performance and risk management.
* Monitor investment guidelines and concentration limits, evaluate investment pacing, and analyse investable capital across actively investing funds and separately managed accounts.
* Partner with cross‐functional teams to advise on fundraising and fund structure creation.
* Track, report, and analyse detailed performance metrics.
* Facilitate portfolio allocations, deal execution, deal closing, and harvesting activities. Partner with internal groups and external advisors to resolve legal, compliance, tax, accounting and operational matters.
* Drive fund and investment rebalancing across new fund launch closes.
* Coordinate with the fund management team on capital calls, cash distributions, and investor and regulatory reporting on fund performance.
* Support ad‐hoc requests from senior management, including data management, reporting and presentations.
* Assist in responding to compliance and regulatory inquiries.
* Create management presentations and prepare analyses in support of ad‐hoc requests.
* Support and advance technology initiatives related to the above responsibilities.
PLATFORM MANAGEMENT: DEAL & STRUCTURING MANAGEMENT
* Facilitate portfolio allocations, deal execution, deal closing, and harvesting activities. Partner with internal groups and external advisors to resolve legal, compliance, tax, accounting and operational matters.
* Drive fund and investment rebalancing across new fund launch closes.
* Coordinate with the fund management team on capital calls, cash distributions, and investor and regulatory reporting on fund performance.
* Support ad‐hoc requests from senior management, including data management, reporting and presentations.
SHARED RESPONSIBILITIES
* Assist in responding to compliance and regulatory inquiries.
* Create management presentations and prepare analyses in support of ad‐hoc requests.
* Support and advance technology initiatives related to the above responsibilities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* 1–4 years of experience in a financial services setting
* Strong analytical orientation
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work across internal and external teams
* Financial acumen to prepare cash flows and performance metrics that impact investor returns and product performance.
* Self‐starter with strong desire to succeed in a fast‐paced, high‐pressure, results‐driven environment
* Strong judgement and problem‐solving skills
* Ability to work independently in a small team, exhibit initiative and be proactive
* Collaborative team player
* Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
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 training and development opportunities and firm‐wide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programmes. Learn more about our culture, benefits and /careers.
Goldman Sachs is an equal‐opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Job Info
* Job Identification 166883
* Job Category Analyst
* Posting Date 03/31/2026, 08:13 AM
* Locations Sydney, NSW, Australia
Benefits Healthcare & Medical Services
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.
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
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counselling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Programme. We also offer state‐of‐the‐art on‐site health centres in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‐site fitness centres. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‐approved amount).
Child Care
We offer on‐site child‐care centres that provide full‐time and emergency backup care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counselling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programmes for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
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