Goldman Sachs Asset Management Alternatives - Climate Credit - Associate - London
Job Description
CLIMATE CREDIT
A career with Goldman Sachs Asset Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. As a primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment services to capital providers such as pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals.
At Goldman Sachs, our culture is one of teamwork, innovation and meritocracy. We often say our people are our greatest asset and we take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally. From collaborative work spaces and ergonomic services to wellbeing and resilience offerings, we offer our people the flexibility and support they need to reach their goals in and outside of the office.
Climate Credit sits at the cross road of the Goldman Sachs Private Credit and Sustainable Investment platforms and is part of the private side of the Asset Management division. Within Climate Credit, we invest across the capital structure (senior debt, junior debt, mezzanine capital, preferred equity) in transactions anchored in 5 key energy transition themes (Clean Energy, Sustainable Transport, Waste & Materials, Sustainable Food & Agriculture and Ecosystems & Services). As a new strategy for Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Climate Credit builds on > 25 years of relevant private credit and sustainable investment experience and benefits from broad network effects on deal origination and due diligence within the broader Goldman Sachs franchise. Associates in Climate Credit work as part of small deal teams responsible for identifying, structuring, executing and monitoring relevant investments. The broad range of transaction structures and sectors in which we invest gives Associates a broad range of exposure. The work is deal‑focused and exciting, and will bring you in contact with a wide range of businesses, industries, clients, investment structures and products in the sustainability and energy transition space.
Responsibilities
* Engaging in all aspects of due diligence and business analysis to develop and refine investment theses.
* Communicating and defending investment theses to internal stakeholders and committees, including relevant Investment Committees.
* Participating in structuring, negotiating and documenting investments.
* Supporting research and developing new investment ideas across the relevant 5 energy transition themes.
* Supporting originating investment opportunities across the product suite of Climate Credit via early engagement with relevant parties (e.g. borrowers, advisors, sponsors).
* Actively monitoring existing investments in the portfolio.
* Involvement in internal fund management and preparation of investor communications.
Qualifications
* Investment Banking, Private Credit/Direct Lending and Infrastructure Investment candidate with 2 to 4 years of experience.
* Strong quantitative, financial modelling, analytical and problem‑solving skills.
* Passion for investing with specific interest in credit and sustainability.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Flexible and creative mindset; ability to analyze a variety of industries and businesses.
* Ability to self‑direct, analyze and evaluate and form independent judgments.
* Ability to interact and build relationships with a wide variety of people.
Job Info
* Job Identification 158294
* Job Category Associate
* Posting Date 01/06/2026, 10:27 AM
* Locations London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Benefits
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. 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. 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. 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 centers in certain offices. To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount). We offer on‑site child care centers 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 counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
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