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Director – AVP – Interest Rates Trade Operations
| Company | Morgan Stanley |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $85000 – $135000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Front-to-back knowledge of the processes, projects, systems, markets and instruments that influence their team with a comprehensive understanding of job-related operational/compliance policies and procedures
- Ability to think commercially, understand the impact of initiatives, risks on the operational budget
- Ability to address non-standard issues within area of expertise
- Culture carrier and role model, representing and leading the Firm’s core values to influence and motivate those around you
- Strong communications skills with the ability to take large complex flows and distill down to simple processes then communicate those succinctly to management and key stakeholders
- Ability to partner and work collaboratively on a daily basis with different teams to create scalable solutions
- Strong organizational and project management skills to track various deals statuses and ensure ongoing lifecycle management as well as process change management
- Product Owner mindset to develop/re-engineer the front-2-back process on top of the BAU activities
- At least 6 years’ relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role
Responsibilities
- Manage complex processes and/or support significant process management/project efforts
- Lead in process improvement, project management or technology development and testing across multiple teams and/or divisions
- Analyze and expose ambiguous, complex issues or non-standard issues, identify risks, root causes and propose future actions, tracking through to resolution
- Build and manage relationships with business unit partners, other Morgan Stanley infrastructure departments, and external contact points in Client or Market organizations
- Partnering with the business to understand complex trade deals and distill down the operational requirements across derivatives and securities issuance
- Partnering with Transfer Agents (external contacts) to understand market conventions, best practices in order to complete deal execution
- Ensure that there’s updated documents and procedures on processes to ensure we meet industry compliant standards and ensure that other team members are trained across the globe
- Multi-task to resolve breaks across execution to settlements through root cause analysis and partnership with other teams alongside day to day new trade activity
Preferred Qualifications
- Fixed Income experience preferred with the ideal candidate having Bond Issuance experience
