Senior Associate - Electronic Trading Risk Management (ETRM) Analytics_Institutional Equity Division

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 Equity businesses in India. It covers functions across IED ranging from those associated with sales, trading, analytics, Strats to risk management.

Electronic Trading Risk Management (ETRM) within Morgan Stanley's Institutional Equity Division (IED) is responsible for managing the risks associated with electronic trading of equities and listed derivatives. The team is responsible for the limits and controls built in the electronic trading platform. With desks in New York, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, the team partners closely with a diverse set of senior stakeholders including Traders, Sales Traders, Product Management, Client coverage and relevant functional areas in order to ensure electronic trading risks are appropriately managed. The team is cross-functional and highly technical, uniquely positioned to identify, understand, solve, and monitor a variety of risks related to electronic and algorithmic trading.

Role Summary

Morgan Stanley's Electronic Trading Risk Management (ETRM) team in the Institutional Equity Division (IED) is looking to expand and build out the team's data analytics capabilities. The candidate's main responsibilities will be to use data and quantitative solutions to help optimize day to day operations for the global team, as well as help build an analytics platform to assist in managing our electronic trading plants. This role will be based in Mumbai working with teams around the globe.

Primary Responsibilities

This role, based in Mumbai, requires the individual to work with global ETRM teams.

The key elements of the role are -

• Role would involve creating reports to capture patterns around trade size, frequency, and timing.
• Create Report/dashboard to enhance limit transparency to all stakeholders.
• Build out of dashboards and reporting to assist in risk management.
• Jointly own and build out a data and analytics platform with teams in other regions.
• Curation of external and internal datasets to meet ETRM and wider business desks' reporting/analytics needs.
• Analyze and implement data automation tasks and processes.
• Build out of dashboards and reporting to assist in risk management.
• Owning and enhancing a variety of critical T+1 order and execution reporting controls focused on managing operational and regulatory reporting risks.

• Task related to creating an analytics platform involving data pipelines and tooling.

Essential Requirements

We are looking for a confident and outgoing person, who has exceptional attention to detail and takes initiative.

• Bachelor or Master's Degree in a STEM subject.
• 3-9 years with a background in Technology/IT, Risk Management, Compliance, Operations or Trading Support. Job level will be based on relevancy of the experience.
• Should have atleast 3 years of strong proven experience using Python and SQL in a professional environment.
• Experience in a data specialist role, a passion for working with data and helping stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills; able to decompose complex problems and projects into manageable pieces; comfortable suggesting and presenting solutions.
• Ability to complete tasks independently to a high standard with minimal oversight.

Desired Requirements

• Knowledge of Equities markets, understanding of applicable regulatory rules and regulations.
• An understanding of and strong focus on the mechanics of a control environment, including escalation and risk-related issues.
• Practical experience with front-end development. JS / React / Angular preferred.
• Experience of working with KDB+.
• Experience with Linux, shell scripts, and automation.

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