Morgan Stanley - Vice President - Workforce Strategy - Fixed Income Division

Division: FID Job Title: Workforce Strategy

Location: Mumbai Job Level: VP

Department Profile

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

- Professionals in the Division assess and actively manages 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

- From the largest global institutions to innovative new hedge funds, investors come to Morgan Stanley for sales, trading, and market-making services in almost every type of financial instruments including stocks, bonds, derivatives, foreign exchange, and commodities.

- Our professionals provide liquidity and content to clients around the world, actively assessing and managing risk, trading securities, and planning and executing transactions in the fast-changing markets. As the needs of our clients become increasingly complex, we often develop customized solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

- This role is into FID BURM budget / workforce strategy space. The candidate will work closely with the rest of the team but is expected to be comfortable to lead tasks independently, including the following:

Workforce Strategy:

- Determine employee headcount needs

- Maintain roster of headcount with anticipated joiners and leavers

- Create presentations for headcount requests

Task Order processing:

- Completing the Legal Intake Form to initiate contracts

- Working with legal to finalize and execute contracts

- Determining if Confidential Supervisory Information (CSI), Material Non-Public Information (MNPI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) are in scope

- if so, filling out necessary questionnaires and paperwork to process with legal

- Performing risk assessment on Suppliers

Budget & Expense Management:

- Analysing consulting budget to determine if funding is appropriate

- Comparing budget to headcount to determine if additional funding is required

- Creating new budget requests in the Firmwide tool

- Create power point presentations on funding needs

Consulting Headcount Management:

- Enter / manage consulting headcount profiles

- Determine location strategy for consultants

Skills Required :

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) for effective communication with various teams.

- Expert excel skills

- Strong power point skills

- Strategic mind-set with an analytical bent of mind

- Budgetary Analysis / Financial skills / Workforce Strategy planning

- Effective time management and organizational skills within a fast-paced environment

- Ability to plan, organize and deliver results within tight timeframes

- Ability to work collaboratively on group projects and independently on individual assignments;

- Mature and professional; comfortable working in an open-floor working environment.

- Willing and eager to learn and work with different teams and divisions of the Firm

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.