About The Position
Goldman Sachs Family Office (GSFO) is seeking an Associate to support the rollout, execution, and ongoing optimization of advanced wealth planning capabilities for the firm’s most strategic UHNW clients and family office relationships. This individual will serve as a planning specialist and trusted partner to Private Wealth Advisors and other internal subject-matter experts. The Associate will assist with the development of complex, integrated financial analyses that help clients understand their consolidated net worth, liquidity needs, cash-flow outlook, wealth-transfer objectives, and key planning trade-offs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree Required; Preferred degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 4+ years of relevant experience in private wealth management, family office advisory, complex financial planning, tax advisory and accounting, or trust and estate planning.
- Demonstrated experience developing sophisticated financial models involving multiple legal entities, intercompany relationships, and consolidated family balance sheets.
- Working knowledge of UHNW client financial structures, including trusts, partnerships, LLCs, private businesses, investment entities, and charitable vehicles.
- Working knowledge of estate-planning, gift-planning, trust, tax-aware wealth-transfer, and philanthropic-planning concepts.
- Advanced Excel modeling skills, including scenario analysis, dynamic cash-flow forecasting, data validation, model auditability, and presentation-ready output design.
- Ability to synthesize complex financial information into clear written materials and executive-level presentations.
- Resourceful, self-starter, attentive to detail and capable of multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment.
- Securities Industry Essentials (SIE), Series 7 & Series 63 exams (must be obtained within first 3 months of employment)
Nice To Haves
- An MBA, JD, CFA, CFP, or other relevant advanced degree/certification is highly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a wealth-planning resource for the firm’s most sophisticated client situations, including those involving substantial private-business interests, complex ownership structures, concentrated assets, private investments, leverage, philanthropy, and multigenerational wealth-transfer goals.
- Act as a subject matter expert, assisting advisors in building maintaining complex, nested-entity balance sheets that consolidate assets, liabilities, ownership interests and cash flows.
- Assist advisors in developing advanced, dynamic cash-flow models incorporating investment income, operating business distributions, liquidity events, capital calls and distributions, debt service, taxes, lifestyle spending, philanthropy, insurance, and planned wealth transfers.
- Assist advisors in developing advanced tax-efficient wealth transfer analysis — including the optimization of irrevocable trusts, lifetime gifting programs, and pre-transaction planning.
- Participate in client meetings to explain planning analyses, assumptions, scenarios, and trade-offs in a thoughtful and client-appropriate manner.
- Serve as an escalation point for the most technically complex client situations and advisor requests; assisting advisors in building models while also advancing their own skills.
- Identify recurring advisor needs and work with Product and Engineering to translate them into enhancements to tools, processes, data infrastructure, and reporting capabilities.
- Train and mentor Private Wealth Advisors, analysts, associates, and planning professionals on the interpretation and application of advanced financial models.
Benefits
- training and development opportunities
- firmwide networks
- benefits
- wellness
- personal finance offerings
- mindfulness programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
