Global Banking & Markets - Policy & Documentation - Prime & Futures Negotiator - Vice President - New York

Goldman Sachs • New York, NY

3h • $100,000 - $235,000

About The Position

The Policy & Documentation (P&D) team is seeking documentation professionals to negotiate a broad variety of trading and regulatory documentation for Prime Brokerage & Futures Clients. The candidate will ideally hold a legal qualification and have 5 or more years’ experience in prime & futures trading documentation.

The team is responsible for providing outstanding service by engaging with clients, understanding their trading activity/strategy. We handle all aspects of the relevant trading documentation negotiation and are therefore an essential component in the creation and maintenance of a trading relationship with a given client.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, JD or equivalent legal qualification, with at least five years’ experience in a Legal or Trading Documentation role within Prime Brokerage, Futures, Derivatives, or a related function.
• Strong technical knowledge of key documentation types and legal entity structures, including funds, insurance companies, pension schemes, and alternative investment vehicles.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and review detailed legal documents with precision, commercial awareness, and strong attention to detail, particularly under time pressure.
• Ability to maintain consistency across large documentation portfolios and sound judgment on escalation points.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and articulate legal and commercial issues clearly.
• High degree of motivation and ownership, with a genuine enthusiasm for developing deep expertise in Prime Brokerage and Futures documentation.
• Flexible, proactive, and able to navigate evolving priorities in a fast‑paced trading environment.
• Strong commercial acumen and curiosity about Prime Brokerage and Futures products, client strategies, and market developments.
• Proficiency with internal systems, document management platforms and workflow tools, with the ability to adapt quickly to new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end negotiation of a wide range of trading and operational agreements, including prime brokerage agreement, futures agreement, CDEA, ISDA/CSA, MCA and related regulatory initial margin documents.
• Review of legal opinions on netting and collateral enforceability including liaising with external counsel.
• Develop and execute bespoke negotiation strategies that balance client objectives with firm‑wide risk, legal and commercial considerations.
• Independently manage complex or sensitive negotiations with high profile institutional clients, ensuring effective communication, issue resolution and timely execution.
• Partner closely with the Prime business, in particular the New Business Group, to support client onboarding, new product approval and strategic business initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement across documentation processes, policy and best practice including mentoring junior team members and leading training or knowledge sharing sessions.
• Provide clear, timely guidance to internal stakeholders—including trading, sales, client services, credit, treasury and operations—on master documentation queries and risk considerations.
• Identify control gaps, assess operational and legal risks, and propose pragmatic solutions to enhance process effectiveness and consistency across the documentation franchise.
• Build and maintain strong cross‑functional relationships to support strategic initiatives, consensus building, and the successful execution of complex client or regulatory requirements.

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 [https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/discover/2022-Benefits-Summary-US.pdf].

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level