Futures Sales Trading Graduate

The Analyst Program has been designed to combine business, technical and professional skills training with a wide-ranging platform of development opportunities to give you a broad portfolio of business management skills. Alongside formal training, you will continue to benefit from peer mentoring, networking opportunities and a range of challenging developmental assignments that will take you outside your day-to-day responsibilities.

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

Goldman Sachs Futures is a comprehensive global offering for Fixed Income, Equities, Commodity Futures and cleared OTC derivatives. Clients choose Goldman Sachs for the security of clearing with a sound and prudent financial institution, our focus on exceptional service and our innovative value-add solutions. The Goldman Sachs Futures business is an agency-only, client driven business, strictly segregated from the Goldman Sachs sales and trading franchise. We are committed to being a broker of ideas, with broad capabilities to customize and adapt to specific markets and clients. We have over 40 years of experience in the industry and as such understand that in order to remain competitive we have to offer a seamlessly integrated execution and central clearing product incorporating not only traditional clearing, but also sophisticated technology, competitive pricing and multi-lingual coverage in all areas. Our Futures brokerage capability is also integrally related to our overall effort to provide complete financial risk management services to our clients.

The Futures Sales Trading desk works with institutional clients seeking to hedge portfolios, gain net exposure across a number of products, manage cash flows and implement a variety of other strategies. The team trades global, all asset classed futures and options including: equity indexes, commodities, fixed income and FX. Desk clients include investment managers, various strategy hedge funds, banks, pensions, and corporate investors. Candidates will be responsible for:

• Advising clients on implementation strategy
• Trading and execution
• Increasing market share across both execution and clearing platforms
• Working as part of a regional and Global team offering best in class client solutions and service

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

Goldman Sachs recruits highly motivated graduates who can demonstrate outstanding achievements in academic and extra-curricular activities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
• Interested in Global markets and working as part of an integrated team
• Desire to build relationships across different levels, functions and regions
• Highly organized, attention to detail and excellent follow-through