The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Transaction Banking, Finance, Vice President

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $125K — $250K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
  • 7+ years in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) or corporate finance
  • Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
  • Advanced Microsoft Office and financial modeling proficiency
  • Familiarity with financial planning/visualization software like Anaplan, Essbase, Tableau
  • Preferred experience with Transaction Banking products like payments and cash management
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills for executive engagement

Responsibilities

  • Deliver critical financial guidance through in-depth KPI analyses
  • Spearhead development of sophisticated, driver-based financial models
  • Produce comprehensive P&L statements for Operations and Risk organizations
  • Perform rigorous analysis for quarterly earnings narratives
  • Conduct profitability deep dives to provide data-driven recommendations
  • Serve as key financial advisor to Operations and Risk leadership
  • Identify and lead initiatives for financial reporting optimization

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits and wellness offerings
  • Strong overall employee experience initiatives
  • Access to a range of health, wellness and financial benefits
Full Job Description
Job Description

TRANSACTION BANKING

As a Vice President Finance, you will serve as a strategic partner to the leadership of our Transaction Banking (TxB) product within GBM division. You will move beyond traditional reporting to bridge the gap between raw data and actionable business intelligence, directly influencing company strategy and driving P&L accountability. This position offers a unique opportunity to gain deep expertise in a high-growth environment, with high visibility and direct impact on financial performance, strategic planning, and operational execution. You will be instrumental in shaping and supporting the financial trajectory.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial Planning & Strategic Analysis
  • Deliver critical financial guidance to divisional leadership by architecting and executing in-depth analyses of key performance indicators (KPIs) and financial metrics, including month-over-month, quarter-over-quarter, and budget vs. actuals variances.
  • Spearhead the evolution of sophisticated, driver-based financial models and multi-year budget forecasts; consolidate and synthesize data from multiple firm systems (e.g., Essbase, MAP, Anaplan) to generate robust and accurate financial projections.
  • Develop comprehensive P&L statements for the Operations and Risk organizations within our Enterprise Partnerships, identifying underlying patterns and trends to distill key business drivers and predict future performance.
  • Produce the quarterly earnings narrative, performing rigorous stress testing and sensitivity analysis to prepare senior firmwide and divisional leadership for earnings releases.
  • Conduct deep-dive analyses into the primary drivers of profitability, such as originations, prepayments, vendor expenditures, and consulting costs, providing data-driven recommendations for profitability enhancement and capital allocation.

Business Partnership & Advisory
  • Serve as a key financial advisor to leadership across Operations, Risk, Vendor Management, and Corporate Planning teams.
  • Foster strong business relationships with internal and external stakeholders to drive financial transparency and influence strategic decision-making.
  • Collaborate on the financial evaluation of vendor engagements and strategic initiatives to optimize cost structures and ensure alignment with business objectives.

Controllership & Process Optimization
  • Establish and maintain a robust financial control environment, implementing rigorous reconciliation processes to guarantee data integrity and accuracy across all reporting.
  • Identify and lead initiatives to streamline and automate financial reporting and data extraction workflows, enhancing efficiency, standardization, and the velocity of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly financial deliverables.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required
  • A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related analytical field.
  • A minimum of 7 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), corporate finance, or similar.
  • Exceptional analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work with large, complex datasets.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, financial modeling, and experience with financial planning/visualization software (e.g., Anaplan, Essbase, Tableau).

Preferred
  • Strong preference for experience with Transaction Banking products (e.g., payments, liquidity, and cash management.
  • Self-starter mindset, intellectual curiosity, outstanding communication skills to distill complex financial narratives for senior executives, and the ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience with financial planning and data visualization software such as Anaplan, Essbase, or Tableau.
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to distill complex financial information into clear, concise narratives for senior leadership.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $125000-$250000. 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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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
NASDAQ
GS
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