AddressAbout The Company
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in 42 countries, the firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals.
Description
Asia Branch Operations is a diverse organization comprising of 9 locations, supporting multiple product classes. Asia Branch Operations support the firm's sales, trading and other business activities and has varied responsibilities, including:
- Ensuring that all operational risks are recognised and managed
- Developing and maintaining strong internal and external client relationships
- Making sure transactions are recorded and settled appropriately
- Providing value-added support in new markets and new products
- Continually seeking opportunities for improvement and delivering innovative solutions
Australian Branch Middle Office teams support client & firm related equity trading activity from the point of trading through to settlement, for both domestic and international trading. The objective of the team is to maintain a high level of value-added service and to partner with Business Units to address key internal and client issues.
Key responsibilities include:
- Fails & Pre-matching (Int'l & Domestic)
- Regulatory Reporting
- Trade allocation and confirmation generation to clients.
- Reconciliation, risk reporting & managing exception items & emails
- Onboarding & Static Data maintenance
Qualifications
- Relevant experience in an Operations role
- Preferably experience within a global investment bank (Equity Trade Support &/ Client services experience an advantage)
- Experience working with sales/traders & clients
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and act with urgency when required.
- Strong communication skills, willingness to learn & transfer knowledge is imperative
- Team player, must be able to collaborate across multiple operational areas
- Detail oriented, focused on accuracy, prioritization & organisation skills
- Ability to identify potential process improvements
- Strong investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Acute awareness of risk, with clear focus on control and timely escalation of risk items to management
- Commitment, strong work ethic & self-motivated
Opportunities for the individual
- Develop technical knowledge of the Operations function in a financial services organization
- Working in regional teams utilizing the resources and skills available to deliver solutions locally
- Build skills in working across geographic locations within a multi-cultural environment, adapting solutions to different cultural environments
- Diverse Career opportunities
Equal Opportunity Statement
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, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected pregnancy/maternity leave), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce.
