About the Firm Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in 42 countries, the firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com .
About the Role The role is for an experienced Business Analyst and Project Manager in the Equity Risk Systems department, which is responsible for the platforms used by Morgan Stanley's world class Institutional Equities businesses globally to manage intraday and end of day risk and P&L. The businesses include Cash Equities, Flow and Exotic Equity Derivatives, and Equity Swaps / Prime Brokerage.
Typical projects include the integration of new derivative products, optimization of real-time risk calculations, and introduction of new risk and P&L attribution measures. The team currently consists of seven business analysts across our major trading centres in London, New York, and Hong Kong.
Role: - You will be a member of the BA team within Equity Risk Systems, responsible for gathering business requirements, performing analysis, and working with the IT development teams to coordinate the end-to-end delivery of solutions, including feature verification and user communication/ training
- You will be a member of one of the Agile Fleet's Risk Squads that is based in Hong Kong and concentrate on business-driven initiatives
- You will work on projects focused on building new capabilities in trading risk and P&L including the support of new products, risk/ P&L measures, and offshore currency handling
- You will work with a diverse set of stakeholders including Trading, Risk Management and Finance
- You should work collaboratively with the wider team, where written and verbal communication skills will be key and organizational skills are essential, as well as an ability to solve complex problems in a numerical/ analytical environment
- Day to day responsibilities will include agreeing priorities with the business, documenting business requirements, discussing solutions with multiple IT development and Quant teams, tracking project progress, providing status updates, and planning quality assurance/testing
- You will be a key contact for the Equities Business in the Asia time zone.
What you'll bring to the role:
- Relevant in-depth experience in a derivatives front-office facing area preferred e.g. Front Office IT, Middle Office, Market Risk, Desk Controllers
- Project management experience
- Knowledge of derivative products (ideally equities derivatives), market data (forward, volatility, correlation), trading risk management and P&L
- Basic technical skills required to analyse data across different databases. A basic understanding of python would be ideal
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a numerate/ analytical discipline preferred e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Computer Science
- At least 8 years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role