Trading Operations Analyst

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,

Operations is one of the largest divisions in the firm and has diverse responsibilities, including correctly settling and recording millions of transactions per day, identifying and mitigating all operational risks, developing strong client relationships and partnering with technology to realize the full potential of IT and e-solutions. Throughout, the Operations department continually seeks ways to improve while actively supporting the development of new businesses, structures and markets.

Institutional Securities Group (ISG) Product Operations encompasses two functionally aligned organizations. The first, Trading & Client Operations, provides Operations functions in direct support of activity executed by Institutional Sales &Trading. The second, Clearing Operations, provides Operations functions in direct support for activity cleared by Morgan Stanley on behalf of our clients in Prime Brokerage, Listed Derivatives, and OTC Derivatives. The broad organization partners closely with Sales and Trading to develop and implement new products and services as well as drive efficiency and reduce risk in our processes. At all times we are focused on delivering quality service to clients both internal and external. ISG Product Operations partners closely with Shared Services and Banking Operations as well as Branch Operations and Operations Risk & Control to deliver a connected 'front to back' view of operations to ISG Sales and Trading.

The NA Equity Swap Trade Support is part of the Global Equity Derivative Operations Group and provides full support for the Flow & Structured Equity Swaps business. Day to day responsibilities include the management of the hedge bookings and reconciliations between hedge, risk and swap, swap trade capture and validation, lifecycle event processing, exception management, related projects and project oversight for team initiatives.

As a middle office team we have extensive contact with Traders, Financial Controllers, Project teams, Client Service and Global Operations teams and IT along with other related areas that use the output of information from Equity Swap systems.
The successful candidate will be responsible for their own particular client base, whilst also providing secondary cover to their colleagues clients where appropriate.
The role demands a close working relationship with the Business Units (trading desk and Prime Brokerage), Trading Assistants and Confirmations team.

Key Responsibilities:

- Management of Equity Swap and related hedges life cycle events, including trade amendments, corporate action and dividend events and allocations (control and client service).
- Transaction reporting - EMIR and CFTC (control)
- Risk to B&R reconciliation and issue resolution (control)
- Responding to trading desk and client requests (client service)
- Point of contact for the Equity swaps business for other operations areas e.g. Settlements, Corporate actions, Client money, Confirmations, Finance (client Service and control)
- Supporting new trading initiatives. Proposing and implementing new processes and system enhancements, w

Core operations skills including:
- systems knowledge
- accuracy
- responsiveness to queries and understanding of escalation requirements
- knowledge of accounting and books and records
- understanding of trade settlement
- Good spreadsheet skills
- Problem solving capability

Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required
- 1 or more of the following:
- Previous trade support experience
- Previous experience of OTC derivatives with equity swaps experience preferable
- Previous experience of corporate actions and dividends

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between 62000 and 70000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Role is Hybrid and will require in office attendance 3 days/week. 

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).