Asset & Wealth Management, External Investing Group, Data Office, Analyst - Salt Lake City

Location: Salt Lake City 

Status Title: Analyst 

Division: Asset & Wealth Management

JOB SUMMARY & RESPONSIBILITIES

GOLDMAN SACHS FIRM OVERVIEW The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base, including corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high net worth individuals.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW 

The External Investing Group (XIG) Group provides investors with investment and advisory solutions, across leading hedge fund managers, private equity funds, real estate managers, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies. The XIG Group manages globally diversified programs, targeted sector-specific strategies, customized portfolios, and a range of advisory services. Our investors access opportunities through new fund commitments, fund-of-fund investments, strategic partnerships, secondary-market investments, co-investments, and seed-capital investments. With over 300 professionals across eight offices around the world, the XIG Group provides manager diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and liquidity solutions to investors, drawing on Goldman Sachs’ market insights and risk management expertise. We extend these global capabilities to the world’s leading sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices, for which we invest or advise on over $150 billion of alternative investments, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies. 

The XIG Data Office is broadly responsible for driving day to day governance and performance oversight of XIG’s Private Markets data environment. That is achieved through daily platform health and quality monitoring and remediation, proactively identifying structural design limitations and partnering with XIG stakeholders to design, test and implement next generation Data solutions. The group is also responsible for the core tenets of Data governance including training, culture and performance transparency to senior and Divisional stakeholders. 

The XIG Data Office is seeking a motivated Analyst to support data governance, reporting, and data quality initiatives. This role is well suited for an early career professional with Data experience within private markets. The Analyst will work closely with senior Data Office team members to execute data initiatives, own uplift workstreams and support KPI monitoring, and contribute to improving data quality and operational efficiency across the XIG platform.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Operations & Reporting Support

• Support daily monitoring of platform and vertical specific KPIs to identify data quality issues and trends
• Assist in preparing dashboards, reports, and data summaries for internal stakeholders
• Help document data flows, definitions, and ownership across key datasets
• Perform data validation and reconciliation checks to support data accuracy and completeness

Data Governance & Quality

• Assist with implementing data quality metrics (integrity, completeness, accuracy, timeliness)
• Support remediation of data exceptions by working with functional teams and following established governance processes
• Contribute to documentation and controls that support data governance standards
• Learn and apply best practices that reduce manual data entry and operational risk

Project & Program Support

• Support delivery of data initiatives by tracking actions, timelines, and dependencies
• Assist senior team members with data rationalization efforts, including mapping inputs, outputs, and data owners
• Contribute to testing and validation of enhancements to data platforms and reporting tools
• Participate in initiatives exploring automation and AI enabled data solutions

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work with investment professionals, operations, legal, compliance, and technology partners to understand data needs
• Support preparation of materials for regular data status and progress updates
• Build foundational stakeholder management skills through exposure to cross functional teams globally

 

QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 1–3 years of experience in data analysis, operations, technology, or a related role within financial services 
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and data accuracy
• Proficiency in Exc