Global Banking & Markets - Capital Solutions Group - Relationship Lending Group - Dallas

Goldman Sachs•Dallas, TX

About The Position

The Relationship Lending Group (RLG) is part of Goldman Sachs’ relationship-based lending business, underwriting, structuring, executing, and advising on transactions that require the firm’s capital commitment. Its transactions include unsecured and secured revolving credit facilities—including asset-based lending (ABL), borrowing base, and reserve-based lending (RBL) facilities—as well as term loans, bridge loans, delayed draw term loans, and letter of credit facilities. Work spans primary loan syndication, refinancing, amendments, secondary market purchases, and bilateral lending. The group collaborates with clients and borrowers, other banks’ syndication desks, external legal counsel, and internal teams including Investment Banking, Investment Grade Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance, Legal, and Credit Risk Management. The Analyst will help execute lending transactions from inception through closing, support senior team members, and serve as a point of contact for internal partners and external counterparties. The role involves coordinating deal execution, engaging in documentation and commercial-term discussions, contributing analysis and reporting to inform portfolio and capital-allocation decisions, and identifying ways to deepen client relationships. The team is seeking a senior member with extensive Natural Resources sector knowledge to deepen its expertise and support its client franchise; the position description also specifies that it is looking for an Analyst. The role includes using new tools and technologies, including AI, to improve efficiency and enhance analysis.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or another quantitative discipline.
1–3 years of financial services experience in corporate lending, corporate finance, or financial services.
Intermediate knowledge of and background in bank loan products and corporate finance fundamentals.
Strong technical skills and financial-modeling experience, including experience with capital structures and covenant frameworks.
Superior writing and presentation skills, including the ability to prepare detailed credit summaries.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience using AI tools to support daily workflows and ad hoc analyses.
Ability to operate independently and thrive in a team-oriented environment.
Highly organized and adaptable, with the ability to handle multiple competing priorities.
Commercially driven mindset.

Responsibilities

Support structuring, underwriting and approval, and closing of relationship-based lending transactions, including revolving credit facilities, ABL, borrowing base and RBL facilities, term loans, delayed draw term loans, bridge financings, and letter of credit facilities.
Support transactions involving primary syndication, refinancings, amendments, and bilateral lending.
Author and coordinate preparation of Capital Committee memoranda with key stakeholders.
Manage multiple simultaneous transactions at different stages, coordinating with Investment Banking coverage teams, Investment Grade Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance, Legal, and Credit Risk Management.
Proactively identify and resolve issues, escalating significant matters with clear recommendations.
Communicate and negotiate with syndication banks, borrowers, and external legal counsel; represent the firm in documentation negotiations and help shape commercial terms.
Provide deal-flow analysis and guidance, and review analytics, presentations, and portfolio reporting for senior management and internal stakeholders.
Contribute analysis that informs capital-allocation decisions and identifies commercial opportunities in the existing portfolio.
Develop ideas to deepen client relationships through lending and position RLG as a strategic partner to coverage bankers and their clients.
Use new tools and technologies, including AI, to improve efficiency and enhance value-added analysis.