Asset & Wealth Management, GS Ayco Tax Policy & Research Tax Specialist, Associate / Vice President - Albany, NY

Job Description

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.

Goldman Sachs Ayco (Ayco) partners with Fortune 1000 companies to design and implement tailored financial planning programs for their workforce-leveraging the 50-year heritage of Ayco and the comprehensive resources of Goldman Sachs to meet the evolving needs of their employees. Ayco believes companies best serve their stakeholders and the greater economy when their employees' financial lives are clear, understood and in their control. Ayco advisors and technical specialists help clients achieve their personal financial goals through education and guided implementation across seven key financial disciplines, including employee benefit planning.

The Vice President, TP&R Business Entity Tax Specialist is responsible for research, writing and advising as to substantive and compliance-related tax issues, both at the federal and state levels, with regard to business entities, including partnerships, S Corporations, privately-held C corporations, LLCs and other state law entities, working with Goldman Sachs financial advisors and, at times, their clients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Keep up to date on latest legislative, judicial and regulatory technical tax developments in the context of business entities as related to individual taxation and generic entity taxation issues.
• Field and help answer ongoing income tax and estate planning questions related to business entity taxation and planning. In addition, help with generic income tax questions as time permits.
• Periodically help review documents related to entity transactions in general, as well as in the estate planning context in collaboration with other estate planning specialists.
• Participate in client, GS-Ayco Advisor and attorney teleconferences to help explain technical tax issues and potential planning ideas related to business entity taxation and planning.
• Contribute to and update technical educational materials, including client-facing Insight memos and internally directed Technical Advisory and training memos.
• Contribute to the creation of training materials for on-site training seminars and teleconferences and participate in periodic Advisor training.
• Conduct training sessions for various other departments, including tax compliance groups.
• Contribute to policy determinations regarding GS-Ayco tax preparation positions in uncertain areas involving pass-through and other business entity tax issues.

Qualifications / Requirements :

Salary Range : The expected base salary for this Albany, New York, United States-based position is $80000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits : Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found.