Credit Desk Strategist, Vice President - New York
Your Impact
As a Desk Strat on the credit desk, you will be working directly with the firm’s Investment Grade, High Yield, Munis, Distressed Credit, Macro Credit, Financing and Systematic Market Making trading desks. You will build cutting-edge pricing, risk and quoting models, large-scale real-time risk systems, generate analytics and prediction models for capital and liquidity, and research and develop strategies to optimize risk management and client service.
Our Impact
Quantitative strategists are at the cutting edge of our business, solving real-world problems through a variety of analytical methods. Working in close collaboration with traders and salespeople, their invaluable quantitative perspectives on complex financial and technical challenges power our business decisions.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
Responsibilities
- Building pricing, risk and capital models for bonds and credit derivatives.
- Research, design, backtest and deploy algo trading signals and strategies.
- Working directly with sales and traders on strategies to navigate rapidly changing market and risk conditions and contribute to structured credit transactions.
- Developing large scale analytics, quoting and real-time risk systems for credit products.
- Building data-driven prediction models for quoting and liquidity for various credit products.
Who We Look For
An ideal candidate would have strong quantitative and technical problem solving skills, drive to investigate and learn new ideas, attention to detail and good judgement to deliver quick yet robust solutions.
Basic Qualifications
- MS or PhD in a quantitative field - Applied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science.
- Meaningful experience in coding in an object oriented programming language
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment and deliver accurate results quickly.
- Ability to solve problems and to explain underlying ideal
- For candidates entering at VP level relevant experience in the financial industry
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $150000-$300000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.