Global Banking & Markets Operations - Equity Derivatives and Structured Products - New York - Vice President

About the role

Goldman Sachs is seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President to lead Post-Trade Operations for Equity Derivatives and Structured Products in New York. In this senior leadership position, you will oversee critical operational functions supporting our Flow Derivatives, Strategic Derivatives, and Exotics/Structured Products trading desks. This is a high-impact role responsible for running three core teams while driving transformation initiatives to build operational scale, strengthen risk management, and modernize processes through technology and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Equity Derivatives Middle Office, Exotic Trade Review, and Securitized Products Servicing teams, ensuring accurate, timely, and controlled processing across the trade lifecycle.
• Oversee trade capture, validation, confirmation, settlement, and lifecycle event management for flow and exotic equity derivatives and structured/securitized products.
• Provide front-to-back trade support for structured equity derivatives, acting as a key liaison between trading desks and operational functions to resolve trade discrepancies and booking issues.
• Serve as a product specialist and subject-matter expert, supporting query resolution on complex products for internal stakeholders and clients.
• Validate economic terms of new trades, ensuring accurate capture of complex/exotic structures and lifecycle events (e.g., fixings, knock-ins/outs, barriers, corporate actions).
• Perform daily P&L and position reconciliation, investigating and resolving breaks between front-office, middle-office, and back-office systems.
• Strengthen the risk and control environment, proactively identifying operational and market-risk-adjacent exposures across supported products.
• Partner with Market Risk and Finance to support valuation reviews, exposure monitoring, and the operational dimensions of risk reporting.
• Define and track KPIs/KRIs, reporting on operational performance and risk metrics to senior management.
• Support a fast-paced, volatility-and-derivatives-focused environment, balancing rigorous controls with the agility required to support active trading strategies.
• Drive scalable processes that accommodate high-volume, complex derivative flows.
• Drive operational transformation, identifying opportunities to eliminate manual processes and implement automation and AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner closely with Sales, Trading, Structuring, Origination, Legal, and other Operations functions to support business growth.
• Develop talent, building a high-performing, future-ready team and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in post-trade Operations, Middle Office, Trade Support, or a related function within a sell-side or buy-side institution.
• Deep subject-matter expertise in equity derivatives (flow and exotic) and structured/securitized products, including trade lifecycle, valuation, and lifecycle event management.
• Strong understanding of P&L, reconciliation, and trade booking across front-to-back systems.
• Proven leadership of operational teams with a track record of delivering transformation at scale.
• Strong product knowledge enabling credible engagement with Sales, Trading, Structuring, Origination, and Legal.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

Preferred / Strong Plus

• Ability to code (e.g., Python, SQL) and hands-on experience leveraging AI tools to drive process automation and analytics.
• Exposure to market risk concepts (Greeks, sensitivities, VaR) and valuation methodologies for complex derivatives.
• Professional designation such as CFA, FRM, or CQF.
• Experience implementing target operating models, vendor platforms, or workflow automation in a derivatives Operations context.

Pay

The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $100000-$235000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

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.