Morgan Stanley

Senior Associate – FE Developer (Institutional Equity Division)

Posted On

Sept. 19, 2024

Location

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Nov. 20, 2024

Job Description

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

Morgan Stanley Hong Kong is looking for an energetic tactical developer to work with the Financial Engineer team.

The Hong Kong team caters to all the local needs and handles the Hong Kong specificities, covering all the tactical applications' lifecycle, from the initial planning and design, through the implementation, validation, documentation and maintenance, working closely with business, especially Sales, Trading and Ops. It covers many functional topics across several desks and platform such as Structured Note Pricing Flow, Trade Lifecycle Management, Quantitative Investment Strategies, Transaction Management, Special Purpose Vehicle Platform etc.

The candidate will also be involved in the strategic development working directly in collaboration with the Strats and the TECH department on the Morgan Stanley official applications.

The candidate will be involved in the development and improvement of existing tactical tools (VBA, Access), and must have experience in developing more strategic application (Java, Python) and service applications (C#), on Linux and Windows platforms. The ideal candidate will have extremely sharp technical skills, enjoy solving hard problems, and have experience controlling complexity in large-scale systems.

Responsibilities for this role would involve:

Design, build, document, maintain and improve applications.
Ensure desks’ requests are always well addressed, in a timely manner, with appropriate reporting.
Work closely with desks and peers to define clear specifications and gather requirements.
Help manage user’s requirements/problems and identify business priorities.
Support for new market flow analysis – data extraction, data preprocess, custom analysis, data / strategy feed.
Development of processes to improve index support, e.g. scripts to aid debugging, index code refactoring and standardisation.

Skills required (essential)

• Degree with a quantitative discipline (BE, BTech, MS in Maths/Statistics/Financial Engineering) from Tier 1 or 2 institutes

• Computer Skills: programming skills such as Linux (mandatory), Git (mandatory), Python (mandatory), C++/ Java (mandatory).

• Strong background in Excel/VBA macros development

• Good knowledge in database such as Access, Sybase

• Knowledge of Equity Derivatives Products

• Ability to deliver quality code quickly

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills/Ability to express ideas via writing.

• Strong sense of achievement and passionate about technology applied to finance

• Proactiveness / Initiative taking & Teamwork

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.

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