Goldman Sachs Information Session

Goldman Sachs is looking for individuals with people with

• Strong math backgrounds
• Creativity and problem-solving abilities
• Strong programming skills

Three McGill computer science alums, Jacob Eliosoff (BSc '97), Shashi Sivapragam (BSc '01), and Mike Soss (PhD '01), are coming to recruit for Goldman Sachs and share their experiences of working in finance.

Finance is a field rich with quantitative challenges where people with a good mix of math, engineering, and computer science skills can readily excel. Experience and knowledge about finance isn't required, but a passion for solving challenging problems is! In fact, many of our colleagues have degrees in computer science, math, physics, and engineering, without any formal financial training.

Please join us!

Refreshments will be served.

About the Goldman Sachs Strategies Division

Goldman Sachs Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC), Equity and Investment Banking Strategies business unit is a world leader in developing quantitative and technological techniques to solve complex business problems. Working side by side with the firm^Òs trading, sales, and banking professionals, members of the department use their mathematical and scientific training to create financial products, advise clients on transactions, measure risk, and identify market opportunities.

Roles within FICC & Equity Strategies FICC & Equity Strategies play important roles in several areas. Some strategists sit on trading desks creating cutting-edge derivative pricing models. Others develop empirical models to predict and give insight to market behavior. Some work directly with the firm^Òs salespeople analyzing exposure, structuring transactions, and explaining quantitative concepts to clients. Other Strategists design and develop massive parallel computing architectures, electronic trading tools, and advanced algorithms.

Roles within Investment Banking Strategies Investment Banking Strategies collaborates with marketers and bankers in Investment Banking and the Financing Group to create quantitative strategies and analyses that lead to value added transactions with our clients. In the course of our business, we use models to simulate and evaluate financial statements, funding, structuring, and hedging strategies, and risk management alternatives. Our strategists possess both generalist and specialist skill sets, developing expertise across products, markets, industries, and strategic transactions.

Qualifications Successful members of our team hold degrees in physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science and many other fields. Although the work performed by FICC, Equity and Investment Banking Strategies is financial in nature, applicants need not have specific financial knowledge or experience to apply. As a business unit, we are interested in bright individuals who have advanced mathematical and computational backgrounds and a willingness to learn about finance.

We are interested in applicants who possess skills in any or several of the following areas:

Mathematics: Understanding of partial differential equations, time series analysis, statistics, and numerical techniques.

Technology: Experience building large-scale distributed systems, implementing fundamental algorithms, and working in different programming languages.

Finance: Understanding of market dynamics and conventions, and of different products behaviors and specifications.