Morgan Stanley - Associate - Market Risk - Governance & Risk Analysis

Department Profile

- Firm Risk Management provides independent market, credit, liquidity and operational risk oversight across the Firm's trading and investment activities. Risk Management protects the firm from exposure to losses resulting from defaults by our lending and trading counterparties. Risk analysis and reporting is consumed by management and regulators, so timeliness, diligence, and accuracy are critical.

Background on the Position : 

- Morgan Stanley seeks a professional for a multi-disciplined Governance and Risk Analysis function for the Firm Risk Management department. The individual will cover a diverse range of responsibilities related to the management of investment and trading risk information for the Firm across all asset classes. To be successful, candidates will need to have a relevant educational background, a strong desire to learn, and the ability to work independently and in a multidisciplinary, multi-regional team. Information processed in the department is confidential and thus the candidate must demonstrate a high degree of integrity.

Primary Responsibilities : 

- Collaborate with regional risk managers in reviews and analysis on market risk exposure across risk sensitivities, stress testing and VAR and prepare supporting information to back conclusions

- Perform trend and variance analysis on risk sensitivities, exposures, stress testing and VAR

- Evaluate existing analysis and reporting processes to identify potential areas for improvement

- Collaborate with other regional / global risk managers to capture requirements and develop prototype risk reporting, analytics and productivity tools.

- Liaise with other groups within the firm on cross-functional projects

- Manage ad-hoc requests from senior risk managers to ensure timely and accurate responses

Skills desired : 

- 3-5 years working experience in risk reporting, risk management or technology related roles within financial services or consulting.

- Degrees/qualifications in quantitative disciplines such as finance, mathematics, statistics, science, engineering or computer science preferred.

- Motivated by learning and adopting new concepts and skills with a keen interest in financial markets and risk management.

- Excellent verbal and written communication and able to work proactively both as part of a wider global team as well as independently.

- Strong technology/programming background in languages such as Matlab, R, Python, VBA and SQL.

- Ability to quickly build prototype for risk analytics and productivity tools and work with large dataset in analysis.

- Attention to details, good at problem solving and ability to work in a fast paced environment against deadlines.