Job Description

The AWM Mutual Fund Controllers team is responsible for overseeing numerous SEC registered investment companies including open-end and closed-end mutual funds (both onshore and offshore) and ETFs. These funds include a wide array of strategies and products in an ever changing landscape. The AWM Mutual Fund Controllers team is responsible for the accounting, finance, and treasury functions of these products.

Responsibilities

• Manage the financial reporting process with external legal counsel, auditors, and funds’ accounting agents. Establish all accounting policies and perform financial statement analysis (including knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS).
• Establish and monitor financial control framework, both internally, and that of the funds’ external accounting agents.
• Large scale analytical procedures on various fund metrics that are necessary for sales and marketing materials, corporate profitability, and portfolio oversight
• Ensure accuracy of Fund’ Net Asset Values via control governance of external accounting agents.
• Oversight and coordination of funds’ major treasury functions.
• Analysis of funds’ dividends including insight to the organization on movement and factors that can increase and decrease these amounts.
• Assist with setting fund fees, in accordance with the firm’s pricing philosophy, for Registration Statements.
• Prepare written materials on recurring and ad-hoc basis for Board of Trustees and senior management (including updates to regulatory requirements, accounting and treasury policies, external accounting agent governance, Funds’ statistics, etc.).
• Drive strategic process change and new/enhanced capabilities by partnering with Technology. Consistently exposed to new proprietary and third party systems and software.
• Liaison with several groups including portfolio management, tax, legal, and sales on new product development and existing fund requirements
• Research various industry developments and share critical components with relevant teams

Requirements

• Basic financial product knowledge and general market awareness
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
• Self-starter with ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Highly-motivated with strong interpersonal skills
• Full working knowledge of Microsoft office suite of applications; knowledge of analytical tools such as Tableau and Qlik a plus
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance (CPA/CFA preferred)

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this Jersey City, New Jersey, United States-based position is $85000-$140000. 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.

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.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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

Opportunity Overview CORPORATE TITLE Associate OFFICE LOCATION(S) Jersey City JOB FUNCTION Financial Accounting DIVISION Controllers SALARY RANGE USD 85,000 - 140,000

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Full time, Temporary work, Part time, Work experience placement, Work at office

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