Asset & Wealth Management, Administrative Assistant, Frankfurt

OUR IMPACT

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

YOUR IMPACT

This is a full‑time role for an administrative assistant in Frankfurt to provide coverage to the Client Solutions Group in Asset Management Public. This role requires a highly collaborative, proactive and organised individual, who can multi‑task effectively.

Responsibilities

• Proactive diary management of complex calendars across multiple time zones
• Arrange internal meetings and all logistics – booking of conference rooms, guest registration, ensuring materials are organized
• Arrange travel; organise and provide detailed travel schedules and process related expenses in a timely manner
• Adhere to Compliance regulations and gain the relevant approvals
• General team admin including phone answering and relaying messages, photocopying/scanning/printing, participation in ad‑hoc projects, and planning team events
• Regularly facilitate knowledge sharing within the team and ensure relevant information is disseminated accordingly
• Act as an integral member of the team; maintaining a high level of awareness of current priorities and support required
• Flexibility to support assistant colleagues and cover when necessary

REQUIREMENTS

• Prior experience as an assistant – preferably 5 years and ideally from a banking, financial services background
• Team player with a positive “can do” attitude
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – ability to display a consistent, professional degree of communication
• Strong attention to detail
• Proactive with excellent organisational and problem‑solving skills – ability to take initiative, follow up where necessary without prompting and seek clarification when needed
• Ability to work well under pressure, adapt to unexpected events, prioritise and multi‑task in a deadline‑driven environment
• Demonstrates a high degree of integrity and recognises the need for confidentiality
• Comfortable working with people at all levels across the organisation
• Strong proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

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. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more:

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, life, accidental death, labour accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centres in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centres. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on‑site child care centres that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counselling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programmes for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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