In-Business Trading Risk Management

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success.  Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and a strong team ethic.  Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Department Profile

From global institutions to hedge funds, investors come to Morgan Stanley for sales, trading, and market-making services in almost every type of financial instrument in all the world’s financial markets. Morgan Stanley professionals use our network and technology to provide liquidity and sophisticated analysis, to manage risk and execute reliably in the fast-changing markets.

The Fixed Income Division (FID) is comprised of Interest Rate and Currency Products, Credit Products and Distribution.

Professionals in the Division assess and actively manage risk, trade securities, and structure as well as execute innovative transactions in the fast-paced and constantly changing global markets. The Commodities Division is a market leader across a broad range of commodities markets, with expertise in areas including client risk management, financing solutions and investor products Sales & Trading

Global Markets Group is the offshoring arm of Morgan Stanley’s Sales & Trading businesses in India. It covers functions across FID and Institutional Equities Division (IED) ranging from those associated with sales, trading, analytics, and stats to risk management.

Responsibilities

The role is based out of Mumbai and required working with the Trading Risk Management team in Hong Kong within the Fixed Income Department. The role will require a fast-learning, dynamic, pro-active and self-motivated person to assist in tracking and reporting market risk exposures across different product classes The role involves working on –

• Risk Reporting: Improve existing and design new reports, with automated production for Market Risk, Credit Risk and Liquidity Risk
• Risk Attribution: Understanding the risk attribution (Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta) and applying them with market movements to analyse desk performance
• Data packs and presentations: Helping to put data packs and presentations together for analyzing trader risk and performance
• Scenario Analysis: Working on risk and historical data to prepare scenarios for Rates, FX, Credit
• Project Management: Working on specific enhancements to improve risk data representation

Requirements

We are looking for a proactive person who has a high attention to detail, is a quick learner and has a natural curiosity to understand financial markets and products

• Excellent written & spoken English; Excellent business writing skills
• Excellent telephone skills (regular phone contact with the team required)
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Pro-active
• Ability to grasp and quickly come up the curve on fixed income markets and products