Investor Relations works closely with executive management to drive the firm’s external engagement with equity and fixed income investors, research analysts, rating agencies, credit counterparties, and sustainability and governance-focused stakeholders. Investor Relations also serves as a key contributor alongside internal constituents on competitive intelligence, communications and strategic planning, capital and resource management, and broader firmwide initiatives.
RESPONBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
- This Senior Analyst role offers a unique opportunity to build deep financial, valuation, markets, and communication skills while gaining exposure to the firm’s senior leadership and external stakeholders. The role sits at the center of the firm’s external messaging process and requires strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, executive-ready materials
- The Senior Analyst will support the team’s daily execution across investor engagement, quarterly earnings, competitive intelligence, rating agency coverage, corporate governance, and recurring management reporting. Work may include developing financial analysis, preparing senior leadership for investor meetings and public events, monitoring peer and market developments, maintaining investor targeting and ownership materials, and helping produce regular deliverables for the Management Committee and other senior stakeholders
Role Summary and Key Responsibilities
Equity and Fixed Income Investor Relations
- Support the firm’s quarterly earnings process, including consensus tracking, financial model updates, peer analysis, presentation materials, Q&A preparation, and post-earnings investor feedback
- Help prepare senior management for investor conferences, roadshows, 1x1 meetings, rating agency discussions, and other external engagements
- Develop and maintain investor briefing materials, ownership analyses, targeting lists, and engagement trackers for top active holders, prospective investors, and key external stakeholders
- Analyze Goldman Sachs’ valuation, performance, capital position, balance sheet metrics, business mix, and strategic positioning relative to peers
- Monitor investor and analyst feedback to identify recurring themes, questions, and areas of focus for senior management
- Partner with teams across the firm, including Finance, Treasury, Corporate Planning, Legal, Compliance, GBM, AWM, and Executive Office colleagues, to ensure consistent and accurate external messaging
Competitive Intelligence and Market Monitoring
- Track peer earnings, investor days, conference presentations, research notes, regulatory developments, market data, and industry trends relevant to Goldman Sachs and the broader financial services sector
- Contribute to daily, weekly, ad hoc, and peer earnings deliverables used by senior management and internal stakeholders
- Synthesize market and peer developments into concise takeaways, charts, dashboards, and briefing materials
- Help maintain and improve team processes for competitive intelligence, including repeatable templates, searchable resources, and AI-enabled monitoring workflows
- Identify emerging external themes that may inform investor messaging, management preparation, or internal strategic discussions
Rating Agencies and Fixed Income Stakeholders
- Support ongoing engagement with rating agencies, fixed income investors, and credit analysts
- Prepare materials for rating agency meetings, quarterly updates, methodology reviews, and credit focused investor discussions
- Analyze Goldman Sachs’ credit profile, capital and liquidity position, funding strategy, risk management framework, and peer positioning
- Monitor rating agency publications, market-based credit indicators, and industry-wide ratings trends
- Coordinate with Treasury, Finance, Risk, Legal, and business teams to support timely and accurate responses to rating agency and fixed income investor inquiries
Corporate Governance and Sustainability
- Support engagement with shareholders, proxy advisors, governance teams, and other external stakeholders on corporate governance, executive compensation, sustainability, and disclosure related topics
- Help prepare materials for off-season shareholder engagement, annual meeting preparation, investor Q&A, and Board-level governance discussions
- Monitor investor views, proxy advisor policy updates, peer disclosures, and emerging governance and sustainability trends
- Draft presentations, talking points, and analyses that synthesize investor feedback and support consistent external messaging
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, 1-3 years’ experience in banking, finance / Controllers, markets, treasury, research or risk
- Investment Banking experience and experience in capital markets and / or financial institutions a plus
- Strong interest in Goldman Sachs, the financial services industry, public company communications, and investor engagement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear, concise recommendations
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; familiarity with Bloomberg, Visible Alpha, Nasdaq IR Insight, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, or similar platforms is helpful
- High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast paced environment
- Strong analytical judgment and comfort working with financial statements, valuation frameworks, market data, ownership data, and research commentary
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, discretion, and a commitment to accuracy and confidentiality
- Experience using AI or automation tools to improve research, workflow management, data synthesis, or content drafting is helpful but not required
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers. We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability statement.html
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $80000-$110000. 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
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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLESenior Analyst
OFFICE LOCATION(S)New York
JOB FUNCTIONInvestor Relations
DIVISIONExecutive Office Division
SALARY RANGEUSD 80,000 - 110,000