Asset & Wealth Management- Change Management- Associate

Asset & Wealth Management
- Change Management
- New York-Associate  New York, New York, United States

Goldman Sachs’ Asset & Wealth Management Division (AWM) is one of the world’s leading investment managers. AWM provides institutional and individual investors with investment and advisory solutions, with strategies spanning public and private asset classes, industries, and geographies. AWM helps it’s clients navigate today’s dynamic markets and identify the opportunities that shape their portfolios and long-term investment goals. These global capabilities are extended to the world’s leading corporates, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, financial institutions, pension plans, endowments, foundations, individuals and family offices.

Global Change Managers lead high priority initiatives within Asset and Wealth Management (AWM), supporting the global AWM businesses. You will work alongside Deal Execution teams, Sales, Product Managers, Operations and Engineers to ensure solutions are delivered and benefits realized.

• Be comfortable with ambiguity and “working in the grey” to understand complex business challenges and technical issues to structure and deliver tangible business benefits
• Lead strategic cross divisional initiatives, deploying appropriate methodologies and governance tools, to drive the timely delivery of implementations, on budget and to a high quality
• Mitigate and manage risks, issues and dependencies across the lifecycle, working to ensure practical resolutions
• Exert influence and impact, to drive delivery, manage stakeholders and ensure the optimal solution

• Minimum 3 years relevant experience, in a comparable role
• Be a strategic and analytical thinker, possessing strong problem-solving and data gathering skills, and able to provide creative & innovative solutions
• Change management skills including definition of business case & scope, articulation of issues, challenges, risks, dependencies & solutions, status reporting and test execution
• A proven track record of driving solutions and benefits delivery
• Significant experience demonstrated through empowerment, situational awareness, increasing transparency and conflict resolution on a large-scale program
• Hands‑on, able and willing to work with team members while coaching them to reach efficient and effective performance levels
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, written and oral; confident in interaction with stakeholders

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States‑based position is $85000-$160000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year‑end.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer.