Asset & Wealth Management, External Investing Group, Data Office, Analyst Salt Lake City

Location: Salt Lake City

Status Title: Analyst

Division: Asset & Wealth Management

JOB SUMMARY & RESPONSIBILITIES

GOLDMAN SACHS FIRM OVERVIEW The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is a leading global investment banking securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base including corporations financial institutions governments and high net worth individuals.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

The External Investing Group (XIG) Group provides investors with investment and advisory solutions across leading hedge fund managers private equity funds real estate managers public equity strategies and fixed income strategies. The XIG Group manages globally diversified programs targeted sector-specific strategies customized portfolios and a range of advisory services. Our investors access opportunities through new fund commitments fund-of-fund investments strategic partnerships secondary-market investments co-investments and seed-capital investments. With over 300 professionals across eight offices around the world the XIG Group provides manager diligence portfolio construction risk management and liquidity solutions to investors drawing on Goldman Sachs market insights and risk management expertise. We extend these global capabilities to the worlds leading sovereign wealth funds pension plans governments financial institutions endowments foundations and family offices for which we invest or advise on over $150 billion of alternative investments public equity strategies and fixed income strategies.

The XIG Data Office is broadly responsible for driving day to day governance and performance oversight of XIGs Private Markets data environment. That is achieved through daily platform health and quality monitoring and remediation proactively identifying structural design limitations and partnering with XIG stakeholders to design test and implement next generation Data solutions. The group is also responsible for the core tenets of Data governance including training culture and performance transparency to senior and Divisional stakeholders.

The XIG Data Office is seeking a motivated Analyst to support data governance reporting and data quality initiatives. This role is well suited for an early career professional with Data experience within private markets. The Analyst will work closely with senior Data Office team members to execute data initiatives own uplift workstreams and support KPI monitoring and contribute to improving data quality and operational efficiency across the XIG platform.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Operations & Reporting Support

• Support daily monitoring of platform and vertical specific KPIs to identify data quality issues and trends
• Assist in preparing dashboards reports and data summaries for internal stakeholders
• Help document data flows definitions and ownership across key datasets
• Perform data validation and reconciliation checks to support data accuracy and completeness

Data Governance & Quality

• Assist with implementing data quality metrics (integrity completeness accuracy timeliness)
• Support remediation of data exceptions by working with functional teams and following established governance processes
• Contribute to documentation and controls that support data governance standards
• Learn and apply best practices that reduce manual data entry and operational risk

Project & Program Support

• Support delivery of data initiatives by tracking actions timelines and dependencies
• Assist senior team members with data rationalization efforts including mapping inputs outputs and data owners
• Contribute to testing and validation of enhancements to data platforms and reporting tools
• Participate in initiatives exploring automation and AI enabled data solutions

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work with investment professionals operations legal compliance and technology partners to understand data needs
• Support preparation of materials for regular data status and progress updates
• Build foundational stakeholder management skills through exposure to cross functional teams globally

QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Finance Economics Computer Science Information Systems or a related field
• 13 years of experience in data analysis operations technology or a related role within financial services
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and data accuracy
• Proficiency in Excel; exposure to SQL Python or BI tools is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in private markets alternative investments or asset management
• Familiarity with data governance concepts or data quality frameworks (academic or professional exposure acceptable)
• Exposure to data warehousing reporting platforms or workflow tools
• Curiosity about automation AI or data driven process improvement

Key Skills & Attributes

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to learn in a fast paced collaborative environment
• Proactive mindset with an interest in building long term data and investment management expertise