Division: Global Markets Group (GMG)                                        

Job Title: TMG EMEA: ETP & RSP Gov Support
Job Level: Manager/Senior Manager                                                                             Location: Mumbai ; Commerze III, Goregaon East    

Company Profile

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, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

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 ranging from those associated with sales, trading, analytics, strats to risk management.

Primary Responsibilities

The role is based out of Mumbai and requires working with the EMEA Transaction Management Group during London hours in relation to Structured Products, ETP and RSP Governance. This role sits at the intersection of governance, controls, reporting, and business enablement, owning critical verification processes, producing senior management insights, driving automation, and partnering with Sales, Trading, Legal, Risk, Finance, COO and Operations. 

The role will require a fast-learning, dynamic, proactive and self-motivated person to assist the team in day-to-day activities. 

Responsibilities for this role would involve:

Governance & Control Framework 

•    Run weekly/monthly governance verification processes and report outcomes, including escalation of material issues.
•    Maintain and evolve the governance framework: controls, evidence, documentation standards, and process discipline. 
•    Perform targeted quality checks / spot-checks on external activity and ensure exceptions are investigated and resolved.
•    Support initiatives including stakeholder analysis and preparation of materials/presentations for governance and senior forums.
•    Assist with post-trade matters and ad-hoc requests, including structured products/ETP trade reviews and governance-related exception handling.
•    Own centralization, maintenance and periodic refresh of RSP/ETP policies & procedures, ensuring consistent adoption and accessibility.
•    Coordinate and deliver DDQs, governance reviews and periodic assessments in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.
•    Support regulatory/mandatory reporting obligations (where applicable), ensuring quality, traceability and sign-off.

Management Information (MI), Metrics & Executive Reporting

•    Build and own a high-quality metrics stack by linking multi-source datasets, ensuring integrity, reconciling breaks, and maintaining transaction-level and aggregated MI views.
•    Deliver regular and ad-hoc MI (packs, dashboards, commentary) highlighting trends, exceptions, and meaningful moves. 
•    Create monthly and quarterly reporting packs, partnering with multiple data owners and teams to ensure consistency and accuracy.
•    Create crisp senior-ready material in PowerPoint , turning complex activity into clear insights, decisions, and action prompts.

Distributor Oversight, Onboarding & Governance Forums

•    Track and report distributor onboarding and periodic review metrics across regions, ensuring consistency in governance material. 
•    Prepare packs for governance forums/meetings across regions with comparable metrics, exceptions, and action tracking.

Budget & Repository Management 
•    Manage invoice processing and cost tracking (including reconciliation, approvals support, and reporting) 
•    Support annual budget planning and tracking related to governance operations and documentation/regulatory deliverables. 
•    Maintain and continuously improve central repositories and governance artifacts (folders, trackers, packs, procedures, templates), ensuring version control and fast retrieval for reviews.
•    Drive ongoing upkeep of procedures / playbooks and operational documentation, including periodic refresh and stakeholder alignment to ensure processes remain current and scalable.

Automation, Process Optimization & Strategic Projects
•    Drive automation and efficiency initiatives (Excel/VBA/Python preferred), improving accuracy, turnaround time, and scalability. 
•    Partner with internal and external stakeholders and third parties to deliver enhancements and change.

Skills required (essential)

•    MBA / CA  with 5 - 6 years of experience.
•    Experience in Derivatives/ Structured Products and/or Exchange Traded Products (not ETF business though) and RSP Governance.
•    In-depth understanding of equity or other asset-linked structured notes, warrants, certificates, trade lifecycles, and product mechanics will be preferred.
•    Candidates must have worked in a fast-paced environment and be able to work to tight deadlines. 
•    Advance knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint skills is compulsory. VBA and Python preferred
•    Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, with the ability to manage internal and external relationships effectively 
•    Proficiency in English is a must, both verbal and written.  
•    Candidate should be organized, pro-active, ability to multi-task and work efficiently, detail-oriented, and self-sufficient.

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

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.

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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.