The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Global Banking & Markets - Policy & Documentation - Prime & Futures Negotiator - Vice President - New York

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$100K — $235K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Legal qualification (JD or equivalent) with 5+ years in a Legal or Trading Documentation role.
  • Technical knowledge of major documentation types and legal entity structures.
  • Experience negotiating and reviewing detailed legal documents under tight deadlines.
  • Proven ability to manage large documentation portfolios and identify escalation points.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead negotiations for trading and operational agreements including various types of agreements.
  • Review legal opinions on netting and collateral enforceability, collaborating with external counsel.
  • Develop bespoke negotiation strategies that align client objectives with risk and legal considerations.
  • Manage complex negotiations with high-profile institutional clients, ensuring communication and issue resolution.
  • Drive continuous improvement across documentation processes and mentor junior team members.

Benefits

  • Valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings.
  • Strong overall employee experience through various support programs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

YOUR IMPACT

The Policy & Documentation (P&D) team is seeking documentation professionals to negotiate a broad variety of trading and regulatory documentation for Prime Brokerage & Futures Clients. The candidate will ideally hold a legal qualification and have 5 or more years' experience in prime & futures trading documentation.

OUR IMPACT

The team is responsible for providing outstanding service by engaging with clients, understanding their trading activity/strategy. We handle all aspects of the relevant trading documentation negotiation and are therefore an essential component in the creation and maintenance of a trading relationship with a given client.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Lead the end-to-end negotiation of a wide range of trading and operational agreements, including prime brokerage agreement, futures agreement, CDEA, ISDA/CSA, MCA and related regulatory initial margin documents.
  • Review of legal opinions on netting and collateral enforceability including liaising with external counsel.
  • Develop and execute bespoke negotiation strategies that balance client objectives with firm-wide risk, legal and commercial considerations.
  • Independently manage complex or sensitive negotiations with high profile institutional clients, ensuring effective communication, issue resolution and timely execution.
  • Partner closely with the Prime business, in particular the New Business Group, to support client onboarding, new product approval and strategic business initiatives.
  • Drive continuous improvement across documentation processes, policy and best practice including mentoring junior team members and leading training or knowledge sharing sessions.
  • Provide clear, timely guidance to internal stakeholders-including trading, sales, client services, credit, treasury and operations-on master documentation queries and risk considerations.
  • Identify control gaps, assess operational and legal risks, and propose pragmatic solutions to enhance process effectiveness and consistency across the documentation franchise.
  • Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships to support strategic initiatives, consensus building, and the successful execution of complex client or regulatory requirements.


Preferred Experience and Skills:
  • Bachelor's degree, JD or equivalent legal qualification, with at least five years' experience in a Legal or Trading Documentation role within Prime Brokerage, Futures, Derivatives, or a related function.
  • Strong technical knowledge of key documentation types and legal entity structures, including funds, insurance companies, pension schemes, and alternative investment vehicles.
  • Demonstrated ability to negotiate and review detailed legal documents with precision, commercial awareness, and strong attention to detail, particularly under time pressure.
  • Ability to maintain consistency across large documentation portfolios and sound judgment on escalation points.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and articulate legal and commercial issues clearly.
  • High degree of motivation and ownership, with a genuine enthusiasm for developing deep expertise in Prime Brokerage and Futures documentation.
  • Flexible, proactive, and able to navigate evolving priorities in a fast-paced trading environment.
  • Strong commercial acumen and curiosity about Prime Brokerage and Futures products, client strategies, and market developments.
  • Proficiency with internal systems, document management platforms and workflow tools, with the ability to adapt quickly to new technologies.


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, 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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Size
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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