Leah

I work in Foreign Exchange Sales and Trading Technology in the New York office of Goldman Sachs. My team closely supports the trading floor and creates and enhances the technology used for both manual and electronically booked trades. We also design and implement the applications that our traders and salespeople use to monitor orders and view risk, as well as working directly with Operations to provide technology that better allows them to establish business controls.

I work closely with my team in New York and also with our counterparts in London and Tokyo. We have regularly scheduled conference calls, and when necessary, we travel to visit with the other teams in person.

There are many opportunities to learn and move ahead. When our business has a new challenge – ranging from rapidly increasing volume, new products to trade or new services to provide – technologists immediately begin brainstorming. As an individual on the desk, this is a great opportunity to showcase your thoughts and ideas and take on additional responsibility. Often, the people who succeed are those who volunteer for new projects, rather than those who wait for new projects to be assigned to them.