Munis Sales Trading, Associate/Senior Associate, Fixed Income Division

Morgan Stanley; Mumbai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in Mumbai offers a dynamic role within the Emerging Markets Fixed Income unit, supporting the global sales and trading teams. You will engage in post-trade communications, onboarding, and market reporting while ensuring accuracy and prompt responsiveness in a fast-paced environment.

We seek candidates with strong data skills, Excel expertise, and excellent English communication to liaise with internal teams and Morgan Stanley clients.

Qualifications

• Ability to learn quickly how to navigate databases and manipulate data confidently in Excel.
• Excellent written & spoken English; strong business writing skills.
• Excellent telephone and communication skills with internal stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including macros in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with clients' middle and back offices to respond to post-execution trade events on CDS, IRS, and bonds.
• Contribute to long-term process improvements to increase team efficiency.
• Assist with onboarding new FX accounts, coordinating with internal teams for seamless setup.
• Compile ad-hoc market and trading reports using Bloomberg data and internal systems.

Skills

Data analysis

Excel proficiency

English communication

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Tools

Microsoft Excel (Macros)

Word

PowerPoint

Databases

Job description

Company 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.

The Fixed Income Division (FID) is comprised of Interest Rate, Currency, and Credit Products. Professionals in the Division assess and actively manage risk, trade securities, and structure as well as execute innovative transactions in the fast-paced and constantly changing global markets. The Emerging Markets Fixed Income Group is a market leader across a broad range of asset classes including sovereign and corporate bonds, credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, and foreign exchange products.

The role is based out of Mumbai and requires working with the Emerging Markets Institutional Sales team in New York. The role will require a fast-learning, dynamic, pro-active, communicative person with exceptional attention to detail to assist the team in optimizing efficiency around client business.

Primary Responsibilities

Global role: Working with other Sales Assistants (SAs) to ensure seamless handover of trade bookings and amendments for the Global FXEM sales teams. This includes booking, allocating, and unwinding trades accurately and responding to follow ups from internal teams.

• Client Queries & Requests: Liaising with Morgan Stanley clients middle and back offices to respond to requests related to post-execution events on CDS, IRS, and bond trades. Includes providing clients with trade information after a trade has been executed.
• Solutions Post Trade Process: Working towards creating long-term solutions to recurring administrative themes to help team efficiency.
• On-Boarding: Assisting the sales teams with new on-boarding requests, liaising with internal stakeholders, and ensuring seamless start to finish approach to on-boarding new accounts. Working with internal teams to open new FX accounts, ensuring new on-boarded accounts are set up correctly in internal systems and mapped to the relevant salesperson.
• Market / Trading Reporting: Utilizing market information on Bloomberg as well as trading flow information from internal systems to compile ad-hoc reports on current market trends and trading flows.

Experience and Skills Required

The basic skills required for the role are the ability to learn quickly how to navigate databases, manipulate data from this confidently in Excel and respond to requests promptly.

• We are looking for a confident and outgoing person, who has exceptional attention to detail and is proactive in taking initiative. Successful candidates will have a proven work experience analysing data.
• Excellent written & spoken English; Excellent business writing skills
• Excellent telephone and communication skills (regular phone contact with team and internal stakeholders required)
• Advanced knowledge and extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Office - Word, Excel including macros, PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with databases, and the ability to manipulate/analyse data confidently.
• Experience/exposure to fixed income markets and systems will be valuable.
• Strong analytical skills, Attention to detail, Teamwork, Problem solving.

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

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.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.