Associate / Sn. Associate – DSP - Asia

About this opportunity

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, manage risk and execute reliably in the fast-changing markets.

Morgan Stanley’s 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 Stanley’s Equity businesses in India. It covers functions across IED ranging from those associated with sales, trading, analytics, stats to risk management.

Primary Responsibilities

The Asian Swaps desk, headquartered in Hong Kong, trades delta-one products, predominantly equity swaps over most Asian stock markets with hedge funds and other institutional clients. The role is to support this team from India.

The Analyst Role Will Broadly Involve Owning These Responsibilities

• Supporting the desk in day-to-day trading and booking tasks
• Analytical support for trading book management and P&L optimization
• Onboarding tasks for new clients - Entering accounts in the system, moving existing swaps into new folders, etc.
• Corp actions processing, chasing for risk updates on paying corporate actions
• Support for Give-ups booking, cash/swap amendments, end of day swings

Business Skills

• Comfortable working on multiple tasks in parallel and managing tactical intra-day deadlines
• Systematic, methodical, diligent, and attentive to detail
• Ability to handle and process the considerable volume of email traffic

Business Knowledge

• Knowledge of Delta-One products like Indices, warrants, futures, stock loans, and FX preferred
• Understanding of financial concepts e.g. hedging, leverage, financing, corporate actions, tax
• Proficient analytical/math skills
• Ability to mine large quantities of data for significant trends and patterns
• Comfortable with using several complex firm systems

Communication

• Engage with traders over business issues and in business-oriented conversation
• Engage with internal and external teams such as brokers, operations, IT, documentation, etc.

Work independently

• Working independently, yet need to be engaged with several trading and support groups within the firm

Innovation

• Suggest process improvements and P&L enhancement opportunities

Technical Skills

• Experience and excellent knowledge of using Microsoft Office suite (Excel/VBA and Access)
• Database programming experience (SQL) preferred

Primary Location
Non-Japan Asia-India-Maharashtra-Mumbai (MSA)
Education Level
Refer to Position Description
Job
Investment Banking/Sales/Trading/Research
Employment Type
Full Time
Job Level
Associate