Market Risk Associate Institutional Equity Division

Were seeking someone to join our team as a Associate in Institutional Equity Division.

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Department Profile

Morgan Stanleys Institutional Equity Division (IED) is a world leader in the origination distribution and trading of equity equity-linked and equity-derivative securities. Our broad and deep client relationships market-leading platform and intellectual insights enable us to be a world-class service provider to our clients for their financing market access and portfolio management needs.

Global Markets Group is the offshoring arm of Morgan Stanleys Equity businesses in India. It covers functions across IED ranging from those associated with sales trading analytics strats to risk management.

Background on the Team

The Institutional Equities Divisions Counterparty Risk team (also called the Market Risk team) supports the Equities Listed Derivatives OTC Clearing and Electronic Trading businesses. Professionals in IEDs Risk Division assess and actively manage risk across their clients by analysing client portfolios and transactions in order to anticipate any potential losses and ensure adequate funding.

What youll do in the role:

• Risk Analysis using Stress Testing VaR Backtesting and other measures.

• Uploading and Analyzing sample prospective portfolios comprising of several financial product types in Equities Convertible Bonds Corporate Bonds Swaps (IRS/CDS) Options and Futures on Commodities/Index/Interest Rates/Currencies.

• This may involve searching for relevant tickers/identifiers for such products using Bloomberg and other internal sources/databases.

• Analysing live client portfolios highlighting risk issues/concerns and recommending margin policy changes.

• Conducting Risk analysis for the various funds analysing factors like Liquidity Concentration etc.

• Senior Management Risk Reporting and Trend Analysis for the various businesses.

• Creating Tall trees reports for Sr Management.

• Risk analysis based on Strategy or Country or Sector or other market-based events as needed.

• Streamlining/Automation/Tool Building for Internal Risk Management.

• Liaising with the relevant regional stakeholders (Risk Margin Credit IT etc.) in terms of periodic risk deliverables.

• Participate in global risk projects out of Mumbai in terms of requirements gathering developing testing and validation.

What youll bring to the role:

• Graduate degree in Mathematics or Engineering with strong analytical skills.

• 1-2 years of experience in the Finance industry.

• FRM / CFA (at least Level 1 completed).

• In-depth understanding of Financial Products (Equities Options Futures Bonds Commodities Rates Credit) and good understanding of risk in such products.

• Working Knowledge in any of (VBA /Python/R) programming languages or ability to analyze large data sets using SQL/Excel/Power BI tools.

• Strong Analytical skills and hands-on approach to problem solving.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Exceptional organizational skills and high degree of attention to detail.

• Ability to work independently and efficiently in a complex fast-paced environment.

• Enthusiasm to volunteer for planning organizing and participating in events held by the department and the Firm.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley we raise manage and allocate capital for our clients helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way thats differentiated and weve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first doing the right thing leading with exceptional ideas committing to diversity and inclusion and giving back - arent just beliefs they guide the decisions we make every day to do whats best for our clients communities and more than 80000 employees in 1200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley youll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. Theres also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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