Liquidity & Funding Controller – Associate recruitment

Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for the excellence of its advice and execution in financial markets. With over 1,300 offices in 42 countries, the firm is truly global- and a market leader in the U.S, Europe and Asia as well as in Emerging Markets.  We provide institutions and individuals with almost every kind of financial product and service across all the world’s major markets.
In 2000 the Institutional Securities division established an operations team in Glasgow with just 6 employees.  Since then our office has grown to over 1000 employees across 6 divisions: Operations, PWM, Finance, Fund Services, Information Technology and Risk Management.  Our offices are located in Glasgow’s city centre in the heart of the International Financial Services District.
We have built a world class reputation for quality and service and the talent and passion of our people has been critical to our success.  We can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and to grow.  Together we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and a strong team ethic.

Due to our growing business, we have a demand for career minded people to join our teams.   Our opportunities offer unrivalled scope for progression and training within a fast paced, meritocratic and constantly changing environment.

The Glasgow Finance Division helps senior management and its individual business units manage the firm’s risk by implementing financial controls over our business activities. The division is crucial to safeguarding the firm’s franchise, reporting on current performance, and evaluating business opportunities.

Role:

We are currently seeking an Associate Level individual to produce a range of internal and external daily liquidity reporting to meet challenging regulatory requirements.

The ideal candidate may have:
• Run a range of daily liquidity reports on a rotational basis
• Prepare required Quarterly Liquidity disclosures for the 10Q/10K returns
• Ensure Liquidity Hub data feeds are reconciled and adjustments are identified through daily exception analysis interactions with the Liquidity Risk Operations team
• Provide business commentary for material movements and variances on aggregated level
reports.
• Develop working partnership with key Finance, Corporate Treasury Operations groups.
• Development and testing of changes to data sources
• Provide cross cover for other product areas
• Escalate liquidity risks that can be identified from the reporting.

Skills Required
The successful candidate would ideally hold an accounting qualification from a recognised CCAB body.

The successful candidate will have experience in managing large amounts of data and strong
attention to detail skills. The ability to analyse and interpret data to draw a meaningful conclusion
is essential.

The candidate should be able to demonstrate strong risk awareness through proven examples and
have an understanding of liquidity risk and cash-flow reporting.

Communication skills are essential given that there will be a requirement to discuss and present
technical information to a wide range of user groups and specialism’s.

Advanced excel skills are essential and a knowledge of Microsoft Access and Business Objects
would be beneficial.

Skills Desired
An understanding of trade level information is required with a knowledge and understanding of
investment banking products and their impact on the balance sheet being advantageous.

F.S. experience and / or knowledge of investment banking products would be desirable.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fair treatment, regardless
of background