Company Profile:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, 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.

In the Prime Brokerage and Institutional Equity division, we provide our clients around the world with intellectual insights and innovative product solutions and services that help them generate alpha. 

What you’ll do in the role:

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC seeks an Associate, Trading in New York, NY to price and structure margin loans and derivatives transactions for corporate and wealth clients. Collaborate with members of the Global Capital Markets and IED derivatives teams on idea generation and structuring of client requests. Conduct research on stocks and companies in order to evaluate risks and make trading decisions. Daily risk management and hedging of the trading books, including close interaction with other traders and brokers. Drive forward new technology and infrastructure projects with IT and desk strategists.

What you’ll bring to the role:

-Requires a Bachelor’s in Economics, Finance, or a related field

-Requires four (4) years of experience in the position offered or four (4) years as an Analyst, or a related occupation

-Requires four (4) years of experience with the following skills:

• Creation, pricing and pitching vanilla and exotic equity derivative and margin lending transactions for corporate clients and sponsors;
• Negotiating legal documents utilizing ISDA format and definitions;
• Conducting research on stocks / companies in order to evaluate risks and make decisions;
• Understanding complex payoffs and structuring novel hedging and monetization strategies for public and private equities;
• leading transaction execution and development of new technology and infrastructure projects with internal IT functions;
• Microsoft Office product suite, including:
  • Excel,
  • Word,
  • Outlook; and
• Bloomberg.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $225,000 and $225,000 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.

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).