Alternatives Capital Formation (ACF) is a global team with 100 professionals across 10 offices, including New York, London, Hong Kong, and Bengaluru. The team is responsible for Goldman Sachs (GS) Alternatives fundraising across private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, growth equity, sustainability, secondaries, hedge funds, and liquid alternatives strategies.
The Associate will join GS real estate ACF product specialist team in London. This team is responsible for the creation and maintenance of all marketing materials and investor communication for GS’s real estate funds. The Associate will focus on GS real estate’s global funds, and Europe funds in particular, and will spearhead multiple projects at one time employing a range of skillsets.
The Associate will spend a significant amount of time with members of the firm’s real estate group across the US, Europe and Asia, including the acquisitions, asset management, legal, finance, tax and compliance teams, and collaborate across strategies to identify portfolio-wide solutions. They also partner with asset management investing, institutional client coverage, and wealth management teams.
The main areas of responsibility include:
1. Marketing Materials & Investor Communications : Coordinate closely with investment team and other internal stakeholders such as legal, risk management, operations, compliance, controllers and tax in order to create and maintain presentation materials, investor reporting, and other investor communications
2. Investor Due Diligence: Respond to investor queries, ongoing investor requests, and complete due diligence questionnaires
3. New Product Launches : Contribute to business development initiatives and assist with strategic planning for new fund launches (including co-investments), production of presentation materials, private placement memoranda, and handling investor due diligence
4. Support Fundraising Team and Senior Leadership : Assist with the production of talking points, ad hoc presentations, and strategic projects
5. Product Knowledge : Become an expert on GS Real Estate’s funds and investments
6. Team Player : Contribute to collegial team work environment
Qualifications
GS seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent, have sound judgment, and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavours.
In addition to strong analytical and time management skills, the successful candidate must have:
7. 3+ years of professional experience
8. Prior work experience in investor relations and/or real estate private equity is preferred
9. Highly motivated (a self-starter), intelligent and demonstrated excellence in prior endeavours
10. Ability to multi-task and execute a wide range of assignments
11. Ability to produce creative, compelling, detailed materials and information for existing and prospective investors; strong proficiency in PowerPoint, Word and Excel
12. Demonstrated ability to write effectively
13. Excellent attention to detail
14. Strong communication skills
15. Leadership and strong project management capabilities
16. Candidate should be able to quickly pivot between a variety of projects and be a team-oriented individual who thrives in a dynamic environment
17. Strong work ethic, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a desire to learn
18. Operate with the highest degree of professional integrity, motivation, and intellectual curiosity
The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by GS in its sole discretion.