Human Capital Management, Investment Banking Recruiter, Associate, London London · United Kingd[...]

Goldman Sachs; City of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment firm is seeking an experienced Talent Acquisition professional for their recruiting team in London. Responsibilities include managing recruitment processes and building key relationships across the business. Candidates should have a minimum of 4 years of experience in investment banking recruitment and demonstrate strong communication skills. This position offers competitive compensation and clear growth opportunities.

Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

Competitive vacation policies

Financial wellness programs

On-site fitness centers

Child Care & Family Care services

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience in recruitment within investment banking.
• Solid communication and relationship management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to define talent needs.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment processes.
• Develop and maintain talent pipelines.
• Contribute to compensation package structuring.
• Enhance candidate experience during recruitment.

Skills

Communication skills

Relationship management

Negotiation skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Commercial awareness

Job description

Our division recruits, develops and rewards the people of Goldman Sachs. Our teams advise, design and implement strategies, processes and technologies that help our people advance professionally, drive productivity and help the firm and our clients achieve superior results. We look for individuals with strong problem solving and analytical skills, innovative thinking and intellectual curiosity who want to make an impact on the success of the firm’s most valuable asset, our people.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The successful candidate will join the Experienced Hire Recruiting team and will be responsible for sourcing and attracting talent across our Global Banking & Markets division. This role involves maintaining and developing key relationships with divisional leadership teams and executing the recruitment cycle in close conjunction with key stakeholders from the business, Human Capital Management (HCM), and global counterparts.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Partner with key stakeholders to define business talent needs, document detailed requirements, and contribute to the development of recruitment strategies and solutions.
• Execute end-to-end recruitment processes in collaboration with sourcers and recruiters, managing activities from initial role opening through offer, acceptance, and successful candidate commencement. This includes coordinating interviews, managing candidate communication, and supporting offer generation and onboarding.
• Develop and maintain proactive talent pipelines by applying advanced sourcing techniques, researching market trends, and building relationships with prospective candidates for critical and future roles within investment banking.
• Contribute to the structuring of competitive compensation packages by gathering and analyzing relevant data, and manage relationships with external recruitment vendors, including coordination and performance evaluation.
• Enhance the candidate experience through timely, transparent, and positive interactions at every stage of the recruitment process, thereby strengthening the firm’s employer brand in the competitive investment banking market.
• Engage with divisional mobility and people development committees to market internal career opportunities and facilitate career transitions for current employees.
• Support senior Talent Acquisition professionals in guiding divisional sourcers and coordinators on talent identification and efficient process management, and assist divisional management with headcount planning and strategic hiring initiatives.
• Keep abreast of trends in recruitment, market intelligence, and competitor benchmarking to inform and optimize recruitment strategies.
• Produce metrics reports analyzing key recruitment data for divisional leadership to support data-driven decision-making.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Minimum 4 years of relevant work experience within a recruitment agency focused on investment banking hiring/buy‑sde roles, or a relevant internal talent acquisition function.
• Partnering with clients and colleagues: solid communication and relationship management skills; client‑facing and credible; strong negotiation skills; ability to develop internal and external relationships; ability to manage diverse stakeholders and to build networks quickly.
• Strong team player: ability to work effectively within and across teams is a must.
• Results‑oriented: ability to thrive in a deadline‑driven and fast‑paced environment, handling multiple, time‑sensitive projects while focusing on the quality of work delivered to clients.
• Strong project management skills: ability to handle multiple priorities and project plan on a regular basis.
• Analytical skills: strong attention to detail, forward‑thinking, ability to review data analytics and identify emerging trends in global markets.
• Commercial awareness: broad knowledge of the financial services industry.

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.

DISABILITY STATEMENT

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

EEO STATEMENT

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.

BENEFITS AT GOLDMAN SACHS

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, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. These policies 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 centers in certain offices.

Fitness: To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our 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).

Child Care & Family Care: 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.

Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer.