Operations Associate - Exotic Trade Review in Global Banking & Markets

Global Banking & Markets Operations-Exotic Trade Review-Associate-Bengaluru GLOBAL BANKING & MARKETS We make markets in and clear client transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide. Through our global sales force, we maintain relationships with our clients, receiving orders and distributing investment research, trading ideas, market information and analysis. OPERATIONS Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted function that partners with all parts of the firm to provide banking, securities, and asset management services to clients around the world. In addition, Operations provides essential risk management and controls to preserve and enhance the firm's assets and its reputation. For every new product launched and every trade executed, it is Operations that develops and manages the processes and controls that enable business flow. YOUR IMPACT Are you looking to sharpen your quantitative edge while mastering complex derivative products? We are seeking a professional to collaborate with traders, strategists and structurers to mitigate operational risk by ensuring appropriate trade usage and accurate trade booking, while actively engineering automated document review pipelines and data-driven dashboards. In this role, you will act as both a core risk specialist and a technical catalyst. You will build, test, and maintain the templating architecture and validation rules that drive our automated controls, leverage AI to accelerate template generation, and build Python-based dashboards to monitor risk and workflow metrics. OUR IMPACT Exotic Trade Review is a high-stakes, cross product risk management team in Operations. We mitigate the risk associated with the trade booking and legal documentation of structured derivative transactions through independent and thorough review. To scale this mission, ETR leverages a cutting-edge platform that automates the review and generation of exotic OTC trade and structured-product documents. By replacing manual document checking with a rules-driven pipeline, we compare expected outputs against actual digitized documents. JOB SUMMARY & RESPONSIBILITIES Core Risk Management & Trade Review: Act as a product specialist reviewing all economic aspects of derivative trades. Ensure all trade economics and pricing factors are accurately captured in the risk management system while proactively identifying booking methodology weaknesses and legal documentation discrepancies. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with traders, strategists, sales, and structurers, as well as middle office, legal, product control, and documentation teams to resolve booking and documentation issues. Template & Pipeline Engineering: Author and maintain high-quality templates to generate expected document outputs from live trade data. AI-Assisted Templating & Review: Leverage AI-driven tools and Copilot utilities to accelerate template creation, optimize code, and implement emerging AI-driven document review workflows. Python & AI Dashboarding: Design, build, and maintain interactive dashboards and data pipelines using Python and AI tools to track operational risk metrics, and provide transparency to senior stakeholders. Validation & Logic Design: Write robust business-rule checks to validate source data. Testing & Quality Assurance: Maintain a strict testing discipline by writing unit tests for every template entry-point. Utilize modern developer workflows, feature-branch workflows, and peer reviews, to manage template code and release cycles. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree with 4-7 years of experience in a financial or analytical operations role with a demonstrated ability to independently develop and deploy technical solutions to streamline complex workflows. Proven analytical skill, problem solving ability and a control mentality paired with meticulous attention to detail Proficiency in any one of the data-querying and management tools like SQL/Alteryx/PowerBI/Python , with hands-on experience in building automated workflows and/or interactive dashboards Proficiency in any templating language or experience in business logic coding Aptitude for building relationships and ability to communicate complex issues to a wide array of internal clients with differing levels of product experience Self-motivated and proactive team player who takes ownership and accountability of projects, has strong organizational and communication skills and the ability to effectively manage competing priorities Flexible and able to work well under pressure in a team environment Good to have understanding on any generic document digitization solutions and use of any language for text processing PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Quantitative educational background Prior experience working with Structured Products Experience with AI-assisted coding tools Pursuing CFA/FRM FreeMarker, SQL, Alteryx, Python 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. 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Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Experience Level Senior Level