GWM – Market Risk Associate recruitment
Position Category: Risk Management
Position Title: GWM - Market Risk Associate
Job Level: Associate
Location: USA - NY - New York
Education Required: Masters Degree
Position Description:
Morgan Stanley is seeking a professional with previous risk management experience to join the Market Risk Department in New York at the Associate level. The role is for a risk manager covering the Firm's corporate treasury function and wealth management activities.
Core Responsibilities Include:
• Daily analysis of the risk profile of the Firm's debt issuance, liquidity portfolio, and associated hedges
• Daily risk assessment of the Global Wealth Management capital markets trading portfolio, bank deposits, mortgages, loans, and other banking assets
• Active dialogue with trading desks, risk management colleagues, and other support groups regarding trading and hedging strategies, risk representation, and limit compliance
• Preparing and presenting briefings to senior management on key risk issues
• Leading projects to investigate and improve the risk representation of the Firm's interest rate and FX hedging program, contingency funding plans, asset-liability management, and stress testing framework
Skills Required:
• Excellent academic background, including an advanced degree in a quantitative discipline
• At least three years of work experience in financial risk management
• Broad knowledge of financial products across interest rates, foreign exchange, and mortgages
• Fluency with MS Excel; experience with VBA and SQL
• Strong problem-solving and implementation abilities
• Superior communication skills for written, graphical, and verbal presentations