Goldman Sachs named the co-head of its global financing group as its new chief financial officer, as Stephen Scherr steps down after nearly 30 years at the US banking giant.

Denis Coleman will take over as CFO in January next year, the bank said in a statement, in the latest senior change at Goldman, which has named new leaders of the majority of its main business units over the past year. He will move to deputy CFO until that time.