Morgan Stanley Hiring for Senior Associate, US Rates Sales Assistant-Fixed Income Division at Mumbai, India Full Time

Interest Rates Products – Sales Assistant

Division: Fixed Income Division Job Title: Interest Rates Products – Sales Assistant

Location: Mumbai Job Level: Associate / Senior Associate

Company Profile

/Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investmentmanagement and wealthmanagement services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals frommore than 1,200 offices in 43 countries./

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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.

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

Professionals in the Division assess and actively manage 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.

Global Markets Group is the offshoring arm of Morgan Stanley’s Sales & Trading businesses in India. It covers functions across FID and Institutional Equities Division (IED) ranging from those associated with sales, trading, analytics, strats to risk management.

Primary Responsibilities

This role directly supports the NY Interest Rate Sales desk. The role includes trade booking & processing for swaps, swaptions and cash trades as well as identifying amendments with the trading desk, resolving disputes with downstream operational teams and systems, and liaising with trade settlement and confirmation teams when needed. Candidate will work very closely with the team in NY and must be able to work NY market hours. The candidate should be a clear communicator who works well under time pressure, can manage multiple priorities and is comfortable raising issues for escalation.

Required Competencies

Candidate must have some previous experience in a sales or trading support role for Fixed Income or Equity derivatives. Derivative settlements, confirmations or OTC clearing experience might be considered as well. Familiarity with DTCC or Markitwire is a plus but not required.

Skills required:

• Extremely diligent with strong attention to detail

• Ability to handle stress and pressure of fast markets

• Must be self-motivated, confident and possess excellent communication skills

• Established understanding of derivative product mechanics

• Excel / VBA for spreadsheet analysis work

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

Job: *Investment Banking/Sales/Trading/Research

Title: Senior Associate, US Rates Sales Assistant-Fixed Income Division

Location: Non-Japan Asia-India-Maharashtra-Mumbai (MSA)

Requisition ID: 3226033