Country Risk EMEA – Associate/Vice President recruitment

Overview:

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm and a market leader in investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. With more than 600 offices in 36 countries, the people of Morgan Stanley are dedicated to providing our clients the finest thinking, products and services to help them achieve even the most challenging goals.

Position responsibilities:

The Country Risk EMEA Associate / VP will be responsible the following key functions:

Country/Sovereign Risk Analysis: The individual needs to have the knowledge and ability to analyse countries with a view to ‘rating’ these countries. The individual will have a portfolio of his own, plus would need to ensure that all other countries in the group have consistency in the ratings / approach and excellence in the analysis.

Limits framework setting/monitoring: The setting, review and maintenance of internal risk limits for countries across EMEA. This will include Emerging and less stable countries from these areas. Identifying blocks of countries that require a country limit, apply these limits and then create a framework which will be used to manage these limits on an ongoing basis.

This will involve establishing an accurate and robust framework to measure all countries that are deemed necessary of having a limit applied, monitoring and adjusting this as and when necessary.

The individual will need to liaise with all other areas within the risk management group (Credit, Market and Operational Risk) to ensure a uniform approach and that limits are applied adequately across all relevant business areas. This individual may be required to manage and develop the current Sovereign Analysts for both the EMEA and Asia regions.

This individual will need to be a strong communicator and be able to manage conflict to ensure positive results. They will need to have a full and thorough understanding of all the various business needs. This includes a comprehensive understanding of the various financial products and what factors drive exposures in those products, in the individual geographic areas or specific blocks.

Skills Required:

• The successful candidate will have experience in a similar role covering the responsibilities outlined above.
• Proven experience in the analysis and limit setting to measure Country / Sovereign Risk in EMEA.
• Experience in the development, setting and maintenance of risk frameworks to manage the above risks.
• Experience in understanding/analysing risks associated with various financial products
• Must be a confident communicator with strong relationship management skills.