Goldman Sachs
Business Services Summer Analyst
The Goldman Sachs Group is a bank holding company and a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Goldman Sachs provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.
Corporate Services and Real Estate offers a robust summer analyst program, where undergraduates from a broad array of backgrounds are introduced to many of the firm's business functions, operations and departments. Summer analysts are given the responsibilities of any permanent team member in Real Estate, Business Services, Finance and Administration & Communications. The Business Services group is engaged in service reengineering, off-shoring, automation, sustainability management and the development of new services.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Assist project managers on high exposure projects interfacing with vendors and internal clients
- Assist in the development of presentations to report project progress to CSRE Senior Leadership
- Attend project meetings and follow up on actionable items and deliverables
- Provide analytical support on business projects
- Work with business area mangers to develop service provision models
Corporate Services and Real Estate
Corporate Services and Real Estate (CSRE), is team of approximately 400 individuals in over 32 offices around the world. Together with its Federation operating partners, CSRE delivers a world class workplace to the people of Goldman Sachs every minute of every day of the year. As the firm strives to build upon its successful performance in a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive and regulated market, it demands an ever-increasing level of sophistication, commerciality, flexibility and sustainability from its global infrastructure and support services departments. CSRE's areas of responsibility are Real Estate, Business Services, Finance and Administration, Communications and Regional Office Management.
Real Estate acquires, plans, builds and operates the firm's facilities worldwide, and is critical to ensuring that our core businesses operate efficiently 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Business Services delivers high-quality, cost-effective support and services to internal clients throughout the firm. Its three business units are Travel, Document Management and Hospitality.
CSRE Finance is the commercial conscience for Corporate Services and Real Estate, providing reporting, analysis and controls and serves as an advisor for other support areas of the firm.
Administration and Communications oversee organizational development and communications. Regional Office Management oversees operations, vendors and divisional relationships in our regional office worldwide.
Location: New York, NY
Qualifications: Class of 2010. Minimum Cumulative GPA: 3.20
Experience / Skills:
- Understanding of Microsoft Office Suite applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills
- Ability to think conceptually
- Strong interpersonal skills and sophistication to liaise with internal clients
- A team oriented person who is able to work with and complement other individuals in working toward and accomplishing a common set of goals.
- A high degree of personal and professional ethics and integrity
Information Session: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 5-8 pm EST at Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue; Boston, MA
Deadline: Sunday, November 16, 2008
To apply: Candidates must submit their application via Goldman Sachs' website. Additionally, candidates should email their resume to the Summer Internship Program and indicate for which internship they are applying.
For more information, please visit http://www.gs.com/careers