Investment Management STEM OPT Jobs in Utah

INTRODUCTION

Job Duties: Associate, Software Engineering with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. Provide data-driven insights and effective technologies for firmwide risk management. Identify, design, and implement the best means of delivering risk information through compelling narratives, tools and visualizations to increase understanding and awareness of risk. Assist with innovating and designing new analytics and visuals, leveraging internal and external programming languages and software. Analyze, visualize, and oversee sets of data used in risk management and control functions. Provide a quantitative application to storytelling, leveraging risk engineering processes to maximize significance, quality, efficiency, speed, and reliability while ensuring clear accountability and attribution. Perform anomaly detections in large data sets, investigating the cause and recommending corrective actions. Work in close collaboration with bankers, traders, and portfolio managers as well as risk modelers and technology across the firm.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Provide data-driven insights and effective technologies for firmwide risk management.
- Identify, design, and implement the best means of delivering risk information through compelling narratives, tools, and visualizations.
- Assist with innovating and designing new analytics and visuals.
- Analyze, visualize, and oversee sets of data used in risk management and control functions.
- Provide a quantitative application to storytelling, leveraging risk engineering processes.
- Perform anomaly detections in large data sets, investigating the cause and recommending corrective actions.
- Work in close collaboration with bankers, traders, portfolio managers, risk modelers, and technology across the firm.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Mathematics, Finance, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, or a related field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or in a related field OR Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Mathematics, Finance, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related field. Prior employment must include one (1) year (with Master’s degree) or three (3) years (with Bachelor’s degree) with:
- Working with users to understand business requirements to design and develop low-cost and adoptive technical solutions.
- Risk management at a large financial institution or a consulting organization, including experience in liquidity, regulatory, or credit risk.
- Querying and aggregating data from a database, performing trend analysis, and visualizing results within a dashboard for the analysis of financial models used in credit risk management.
- Examining risk factors impacting credit exposure.
- Analyzing and explaining market trends to senior risk managers and financial regulators.
- Working with data management, including data flows, data mining, or data modeling.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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.

LOCATION

Salt Lake City, Draper

CORPORATE TITLE

Associate

DIVISION

Risk Division

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