Asset Management Division, Real Estate, Portfolio Management, Associate - London

Job Description

ASSET MANAGEMENT Goldman Sachs is one of the worlds leading investors in alternative investments. With over 30 years of experience, we invest in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure,ESG, and absolute-return strategies. Our clients access these solutions through our direct proprietary strategies, customized strategic partnerships, and open-architecture programs. Our alternative investment teams represent over 1,000 professionals, across31 offices around the world. We leverage the depth and breadth of global relationships across Goldman Sachs to identify investment opportunities, drawing on our firm-wide capital market insights, industry research, and risk management platforms. We extendthese capabilities to the worlds leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, family offices and individuals, for which we invest or advise on over $300 billion of alternative investments JobSummary & Responsibilities Working in partnership with real estate asset management & investing teams to oversee/manage the positions across the fund and equity portfolio, with a focus on ensuring a consistent approach to strategy, analysis and reporting acrossEurope and globally Collaborate with all internal stakeholders, ensure that insightful, value-add analysis on the portfolio is developed and a comprehensive understanding of strategies and underlying assets is shared Key Priorities / Focus Areas PortfolioManagement: Create and maintain tools to support the oversight of portfolio performance and drive accretive decision making to both enhance firm returns and mitigate risk Create dynamic models able to run impacts to portfolios with various sensitivities todetermine optimal returns for outperformance Fund / Firm Management : Co-ordinate with numerous internal constituents to facilitate all aspects of reporting, analysis and fund operations, including supporting: Portfolio Management team by providing insightson best practices on funds management Fundraising and financing teams with capital raising initiatives including preparation of marketing materials and responses to diligence requests Fund reporting teams with cash management, financing management and investorreporting, including the quarterly valuation process P&L forecasting for firm budgets Extensively review business plan models and reporting materials semi-annually Work with several teams outside Portfolio Management teams including Asset Management, FundManagement, Controllers, Finance Management & Execution Streamline Reporting : Coordinate with Asset Management, Strats, and Engineering: Develop and support unified modeling, data systems/reporting and aggregation systems Leverage technology to generate value-addreporting for Business Unit leadership, Asset Management and Portfolio Management groups, and the Alternative Capital Markets and Strategy team Provide in an organized, efficient and consistent manner to: Regular and ad-hoc reports and supporting data, BusinessPlan schedule, including the preparation on Portfolio Overviews/Roll-ups, and Infrastructure Uplift : Work with the Asset Management teams to revamp and standardize: Business Plan models, with an eye to having templates pre-populated from centralized databaseand Cash Flows stored in a centralized database Data input and storage systems, with a focus on centralizing one source of truth vs current situation of multiple input systems and databases Data fields for key definitions (e.g. LTV, NOI, etc.) QualificationsBachelors degree from a top-tier university, CFA a plus 3+ minimum years of experience in real estate fund management and/or portfolio management, with preference for previous experience in institutional fund environment, Core Fund, REIT, or top-tier investmentbank Strong communication and presentation skills Ability to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment; set prioritization for the team Strong project management skills as well as ability to manage senior leadership Advance working knowledge of MicrosoftExcel, PowerPoint, and Word products