Vice President, Liquidity & Fixed Income Trade Support

Morgan Stanley; New York (NY); On-site; USD 152,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley Investment Management Operations is seeking a proactive Liquidity and Fixed Income Trade Support leader to join the Public Markets Middle Office. You will be the day-to-day contact for PMs and Traders, ensuring smooth front-to-back execution and a strong control environment across trade capture, confirmations, settlement, and lifecycle events.

As Vice President of Liquidity and Fixed Income Trade Support, you will drive the coverage model, mentor teammates, and lead improvements

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in liquidity and fixed income trade support, middle office, or investment operations.
• Experience supporting front-to-back workflows with PMs/Traders and downstream operations teams.
• Knowledge of liquidity and global fixed income products and lifecycle events (repo, money markets, treasuries).

Responsibilities

• Lead the Liquidity & Fixed Income Trade Support coverage model and act as escalation point for front office stakeholders.
• Partner with MSIM Trading, Technology, Compliance, Counterparties, Prime/Clearing Brokers, Custodians and other MSIM Operations teams to monitor data quality and resolve issues.
• Drive continuous improvement across controls, incident management, and operational resilience.
• Contribute to procedures, governance forums, and change initiatives to ensure consistent execution and strong risk controls.

Skills

Liquidity & Fixed Income

Trade Support

Front-to-back workflows

Aladdin

Data analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Mentoring

Operational resilience

Tools

Aladdin

OMS/IBOR/ABOR platforms

Job description

Morgan Stanley Investment Management Operations is seeking a proactive Liquidity and Fixed Income Transaction Management leader to join the Public Markets Middle Office and provide high-touch operational partnership to Portfolio Managers and Traders. This role serves as a day-to-day point of contact for front office stakeholders, ensuring smooth front-to-back execution, governing strong control framework, and timely issue resolution across trade capture, confirmations, settlement, cash/positions, and key lifecycle events.

The position provides an opportunity to partner closely with MSIM Trading, Technology, Compliance, Counterparties, Prime Brokers/Clearing Brokers, Custodians and various functional teams within MSIM Operations to proactively monitor data quality and resolve issues that could impact trade execution, settlement, valuation, risk, and client/regulatory reporting. The successful candidate is detail-oriented, remains composed under high-pressure situations, and comfortable operating in time-sensitive markets across multiple products.

As Vice President of Liquidity and Fixed Income Trade Support, you will help drive the Trade Support coverage model, act as a key escalation point for front office stakeholders, and lead continuous improvement across controls, incident management, and operational resilience. You will also contribute to procedures, governance forums, and change initiatives to ensure consistent execution and a strong risk and control environment.

In the Operations division, we partner with business units across the Firm to support financial transactions, devise and implement effective controls and develop client relationships, driving strategic automation solutions by embracing a transformation mindset and challenging the status quo.

This is a Vice President position at the P5 job level within Client Service & Relationship Management, which is responsible for managing internal and external client relationships. We do this by engaging in client service activities, optimizing the client experience, and managing vendor/external business partner relationships.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

• 8-10+ years of experience in liquidity and fixed income trade support, middle office, or investment operations at a global asset manager, bank, or financial institution.
• Proven experience supporting front-to-back workflows and partnering closely with PMs/Traders and downstream operations teams from execution through settlement and reporting.
• Strong understanding of liquidity and global fixed income market products and lifecycle events relevant to the desk(s) supported (e.g., repo, money markets, treasuries etc; confirmations, netting, settlements, resets, corporate actions, and cash flows).
• Hands-on experience with trade management, confirmations/settlement, reconciliations, exception management, and operational controls; familiarity with applicable regulatory and client reporting expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence-coordinating across functions, mentoring teammates, and driving outcomes without direct authority.
• Proficiency in Aladdin and/or comparable OMS/IBOR/ABOR platforms, plus market/data tools and post-trade utilities used for confirmations, settlement, and reconciliations.
• Strong understanding of global market standards, broker/clearing and custodian practices, and risk and control frameworks.
• Data-driven approach to identifying trends, producing management information, managing service performance, and enhancing operational resilience.
• Service & Client Mindset: Delivers an exceptional experience for Portfolio Managers and Traders while keeping a strong risk and control orientation
• Operational Leadership: Anticipates risk, leads issue resolution and escalation, and communicates clearly under pressure.
• Strategic Agility: Understands the broader investment, operational, and regulatory landscape and adapts the support model accordingly.
• Data & Control Orientation: Uses data to produce KPIs/KRIs, identify root causes, and improve preventative controls and process stability.
• Collaboration & Influence: Builds trust across stakeholders and drives alignment across Front Office, Operations, Technology, and external partners.

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 85 years. At our foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide our more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.

At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find trusted colleagues, committed mentors and a culture that values diverse perspectives, individual intellect and cross-collaboration. Our Firm is differentiated by the caliber of our diverse team, while our company culture and commitment to inclusion define our legacy and shape our future, helping to strengthen our business and bring value to clients around the world. Learn more about how we put this commitment to action: morganstanley.com/diversity

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.

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, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

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.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be $152,000.00-$233,000.00 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

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.