Delta One Cash Trading Strats Manager Institutional Equity Division

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking securities investment management and wealth management services. The Firms employees serve clients worldwide including corporations governments and individuals from more than 1200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together we share a common set of values rooted in integrity excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Department 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 worlds 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.

Morgan Stanleys Institutional Equity Division (IED) is a world leader in the origination distribution and trading of equity equity-linked and equity-derivative securities. Our broad and deep client relationships market-leading platform and intellectual insights enable us to be a world-class service provider to our clients for their financing market access and portfolio management needs.

Global Markets Group is the offshoring arm of Morgan Stanleys Sales & Trading businesses in India. It covers functions across IED ranging from those associated with sales trading analytics strats to risk management.

Primary Responsibilities

Delta one trading is one of the biggest risk-taking desks in equities trading. Traders on this desk act as a market-makers (non HFT) and offer various liquidity offerings to clients on a discretionary and systematic basis.

The role is within systematic trading arm of delta one where key aspects of the role combines broad market understanding knowledge of market impact models risk models and portfolio construction. We are looking for proactive self-starting individual to be part of our India team working with EMEA Cash Trading Strats team. This is a challenging role and offering exposure to an interesting dynamic product group and work environment to build your career in.

Responsibilities for this role would involve:

• Creating pricing services.

• Managing and maintaining a large and complicated technical environment.

• Web development to allow for simple display of metrics & analytics.

• Building Tools/Apps to analyze and spot anomalies in a complex & multidimensional marketplace.

• Back-testing of various ideas and methodologies to manage long/short equity and futures portfolios.

• Alpha Research.

• Regular communication with team members in London and Paris.

Skills required (essential)

We are looking to hire both first class technicians/technologists and those with a deep knowledge of financial markets and Alpha research. You will have either or preferably both skillsets:

• Degree with a quantitative/technical discipline (BE BTech in Computer Science MS in Maths/Statistics/ FE) from Tier 1 & 2 institutes.

• 4-6 years of relevant working experience in a Tier1 investment bank or buy side firm.

• Strong Python knowledge is a must.

• Must be able to flexibly respond to changes in priorities be able to communicate results to a less-technical audience work well in a team and be comfortable in a front office environment.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Drive and desire to work in an intense team-oriented environment.

• KDB database knowledge.

• Angular or other web development skills.

• Creation of services technical platform integration expansion & maintenance.

In addition below knowledge is not critical but useful for the role.

• Barra Risk Model(s).

• Conic Optimization.

• Any progress towards CFA would be preferred

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first doing the right thing leading with exceptional ideas committing to diversity and inclusion and giving back - arent just beliefs they guide the decisions we make every day to do whats best for our clients communities and more than 80000 employees in 1200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley youll 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. Theres also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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