The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Global Banking & Markets Operations - Post-Trade Operations - New York - Vice President

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$100K — $235K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in post-trade Operations or related roles within sell-side or buy-side institutions.
  • Extensive expertise in equity derivatives (flow and exotic) and structured products, focusing on trade lifecycle and event management.
  • Strong proficiency in P&L, reconciliation, and trade booking across comprehensive systems.
  • Demonstrated leadership with operational teams, successfully implementing transformative initiatives.
  • In-depth product knowledge for effective collaboration with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage core operational teams ensuring accurate and timely processing.
  • Oversee all aspects of trade capture, validation, and settlement for derivatives and structured products.
  • Provide comprehensive trade support acting as a liaison between trading and operational teams.
  • Serve as a subject-matter expert for equity derivatives, resolving complex queries.
  • Conduct daily P&L reconciliation and manage discrepancies among operational systems.
  • Enhance risk and control frameworks by identifying exposures in operations.
  • Collaborate with other departments to ensure efficient risk reporting and valuations.

Benefits

  • Competitive and valuable benefits package.
  • Wellness offerings aimed at enhancing employee experience.
  • Options for both full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours/week.
Full Job Description
Job Description

About the Role

Goldman Sachs is seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President to lead Post-Trade Operations for Equity Derivatives and Structured Products in New York. In this senior leadership position, you will oversee critical operational functions supporting our Flow Derivatives, Strategic Derivatives, and Exotics/Structured Products trading desks.

This is a high-impact role responsible for running three core teams while driving transformation initiatives to build operational scale, strengthen risk management, and modernize processes through technology and automation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and manage the Equity Derivatives Middle Office, Exotic Trade Review, and Securitized Products Servicing teams, ensuring accurate, timely, and controlled processing across the trade lifecycle.
  • Oversee trade capture, validation, confirmation, settlement, and lifecycle event management for flow and exotic equity derivatives and structured/securitized products.
  • Provide front-to-back trade support for structured equity derivatives, acting as a key liaison between trading desks and operational functions to resolve trade discrepancies and booking issues.
  • Serve as a product specialist and subject-matter expert, supporting query resolution on complex products for internal stakeholders and clients.
  • Validate economic terms of new trades, ensuring accurate capture of complex/exotic structures and lifecycle events (e.g., fixings, knock-ins/outs, barriers, corporate actions).
  • Perform daily P&L and position reconciliation, investigating and resolving breaks between front-office, middle-office, and back-office systems.
  • Strengthen the risk and control environment, proactively identifying operational and market-risk-adjacent exposures across supported products.
  • Partner with Market Risk and Finance to support valuation reviews, exposure monitoring, and the operational dimensions of risk reporting.
  • Define and track KPIs/KRIs, reporting on operational performance and risk metrics to senior management.
  • Support a fast-paced, volatility-and-derivatives-focused environment, balancing rigorous controls with the agility required to support active trading strategies.
  • Drive scalable processes that accommodate high-volume, complex derivative flows.
  • Drive operational transformation, identifying opportunities to eliminate manual processes and implement automation and AI-enabled solutions.
  • Partner closely with Sales, Trading, Structuring, Origination, Legal, and other Operations functions to support business growth.
  • Develop talent, building a high-performing, future-ready team and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Experience

Required:
  • 10+ years of experience in post-trade Operations, Middle Office, Trade Support, or a related function within a sell-side or buy-side institution.
  • Deep subject-matter expertise in equity derivatives (flow and exotic) and structured/securitized products, including trade lifecycle, valuation, and lifecycle event management.
  • Strong understanding of P&L, reconciliation, and trade booking across front-to-back systems.
  • Proven leadership of operational teams with a track record of delivering transformation at scale.
  • Strong product knowledge enabling credible engagement with Sales, Trading, Structuring, Origination, and Legal.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

Preferred / Strong Plus:
  • Ability to code (e.g., Python, SQL) and hands-on experience leveraging AI tools to drive process automation and analytics.
  • Exposure to market risk concepts (Greeks, sensitivities, VaR) and valuation methodologies for complex derivatives.
  • Professional designation such as CFA, FRM, or CQF.
  • Experience implementing target operating models, vendor platforms, or workflow automation in a derivatives Operations context.

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $100000-$235000. 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.

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
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