AddressABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
The Goldman Sachs Group is a bank holding company and a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Goldman Sachs provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.
DIVISION OVERVIEW
Goldman Sachs is one of the world’s 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, across 31 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 extend these capabilities to the world’s 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.
BUSINNESS UNIT OVERVIEW
The Real Estate sleeve within Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides investment and Asset Management services in the Real Estate market, partnering with other divisions and external parties as appropriate. Our mandate is broad and flexible, covering key markets, industry sectors, product types and geographies in Australia and New Zealand – with a focus on special situations, thematic investing, non-traditional Real Estate and platforms. If you’re passionate about Real Estate and finance, have strong analytical skills and are a great communicator who is eager to make an impact, this could be the right opportunity for you.
Job Description
- Your role will involve analyzing various Real Estate investment opportunities through all parts of the capital structure and across all traditional and alternative asset classes within Real Estate. This will also extend to helping formulate a thesis around a particular investment opportunity or strategy, working within the broad and flexible parameters of our investment mandate
- You will be expected to have strong sourcing capabilities and industry contacts including intermediaries, brokers, Real Estate companies and developers. In addition, the candidate should be up to date with macroeconomic conditions, as well as key drivers and fundamentals in major Real Estate asset classes
- Seeking ambitious team players with strong communication skills and work ethic, with the ability to collaborate with a local and global teams and external partners and consultants
Key Responsibilities
- Source and identify potential Real Estate investment opportunities across equity and credi
- Manage the preparation of investment committee memoranda, alongside a small deal team, in addition to any other internal / external presentation materials
- Presentation of investment opportunities to leadership, investment committees and external investors
- Lead due diligence and valuation work across various Real Estate asset classes and capital structures
- Lead the structuring, negotiation and documentation of investments
- Assisting with client/ operating partner dialogue and working alongside the Asset Management team to make Asset Management decisions
- Project management and team co-ordination, including the development and training of junior team members
- Interface with external parties, including financial intermediaries, Real Estate companies, Real Estate operating partners, financiers, consultants, legal etc
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree equivalent
- 7-10 years relevant experience in areas such as private equity/credit (or other Real Estate Investing/credit role), capital transactions, investment banking, management consulting, Real Estate investment management or Real Estate development
- At least 3 years of prior investing experience
- Real estate valuation and investment management experience in both equity and debt
- Project management and presentation skills
- Creative thinkers with strong problem solving skills, and flexibility to adapt to different situations, market conditions and evolving strategies
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. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
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