Asset & Wealth Management, Credit Research, Associate

Asset & Wealth Management Overview

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients.

Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions, within Public Investing, manages more than $1.7 trillion in assets for a variety of clients, including private wealth mandates and institutional clients such as insurance companies, pension funds, and endowments. The team has a long history of investing across public fixed income strategies including rates, currency and credit on behalf of our clients. Investment ideas are created through collaboration between portfolio managers, research analysts, and traders.

GSAM’s Emerging Market team manages over US $45 billion of dedicated EM Fixed Income assets and has been investing in EM Fixed Income for over two decades with strong performance.

The EM Corporate Credit research team is seeking a Corporate Credit Analyst to join the team in the Singapore office. The EM Corporate credit research team is responsible for researching, recommending and making investment decisions in a variety of accounts and contributes its ideas to both emerging market and global fixed income portfolios. The investment approach relies on a foundation of fundamental research conducted by a team of analysts.

The credit analyst will work closely with portfolio managers and senior analysts to develop and support investment recommendations across a range of portfolios with a focus on companies in Asia in both financial and non-financial sectors. A successful candidate must demonstrate commitment to a team-oriented culture and a strong enthusiasm for investment research. Financial modelling, communication and research skills, as well as an outstanding critical thinking mindset are also essential for the role.

The analyst will be responsible for performing due diligence; building and maintaining financial models; monitoring companies on an ongoing basis; assessing relative value based on risk-reward for a range of different portfolio strategies; communicating with management teams; and presenting recommendations to others on the team.

• Performing detailed bottoms-up credit and ESG analysis on companies including financial modeling, accounting review, covenant analysis, assessment of management quality, review of third-party research, ESG research and assessment, and interacting with management and sell‑side analysts, among others.
• Undertaking comprehensive ongoing research coverage for companies and sectors in Asian credit and communicating updates in a timely fashion (both orally and written) to team members across the globe.
• Building and maintaining financials models and other investment-related infrastructure that supports our credit recommendations and investment.
• Working with economists on the Emerging Markets team to assess the relevant economic and political risks the companies may face.
• Working with the Global Corporate Credit teams to identify global relative value and share investment ideas.
• Identifying & Recommending investment ideas for a range of portfolios with different risk mandates and restrictions, while supporting those recommendations in both oral and written communication.
• Engaging in ad‑hoc research, thematic and analytic projects

• Pre or Post MBA with relevant experience in financial sector is required
• Prior experience in investing, credit or equity analysis or a related discipline (accounting, banking, financial modeling) is strongly preferred
• Solid accounting and finance knowledge with a keen ability to analyze financial statements
• Strong financial modeling skills with good mathematical grounding
• Data Science, Computer Science & AI tool experience preferred
• Strong communication and presentation skills (oral and…