Morgan Stanley - Quantitative & Investment Strategies Role - Global Markets Division - Asia Shift

Morgan Stanley - Global Markets Division- Quantitative and Investment Strategies Role -Asia Shift

Division: Global Markets Group (GMG) Job Title: Associate - QIS

Location: Mumbai - NKP Job Level: Associate

Shift Timing - 04:30 /05:00 AM on wards

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 strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to 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.

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 Sales & Trading businesses in India. It covers functions across IED and Fixed Income Division (FID) ranging from those associated with sales, trading, analytics, strats to risk management.

Primary Responsibilities : 

The Quantitative and Investment Strategies Group (QIS) provides investment strategies and quantitative models and bespoke strategies to external clients and the sales desk. We are looking for proactive, self-starting individual to be part of our India team working with Global QIS in this area. This is a challenging role and offering exposure to an interesting, dynamic product group and work environment to build your career in. Responsibilities for this role would involve:

- Support for new equity and multi-asset index development - back testing, coding, tweaking codes etc.

- Development of processes to improve index support, e.g. scripts to aid debugging, index code refactoring and standardisation

- Index oversight - Daily monitoring of the complex indices & resolving calculation issues (data problems, calendar errors, common code errors etc.)

- Overseeing Index rebalance processes for client directed strategies

- Minor modifications to existing live indices e.g. new cost structures, universe changes, minor methodology adjustments

- Index Description drafting for minor adjustments, Repeat Index Launch Form completion

- Improvement of processes around data feeds for live index publication

- Production of periodic standard performance reporting for client distribution

- Development and production of position, stress, composition reports for clients

- Bespoke scenario/sensitivity analysis for clients

Skills required (essential) :

- Degree with a quantitative discipline (BE, BTech, MS in Maths/Statistics/Financial Engineering) 

- 1-2 year of prior exposure to Index/Quants Research and equities/multi asset indices analytics is important.

- Computer Skills: programming skills such as Python (mandatory), C++ or JAVA (preferred).

- Must be able to flexibly respond to changes in priorities, be able to communicate results to a less-technical audience, work well in a team and be comfortable in a front office environment.

- Strong attention to detail.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills/Ability to express ideas via writing. Prior track record in writing marketing material/trade ideas for wider distribution will be advantageous.

- Proactiveness / Initiative taking & Teamwork

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.