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Company Profile:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

In the Fixed Income division, we work in fast-paced and constantly changing global markets to assess and manage risk, trade securities, manage relationships with clients, and structure and execute innovative transactions.

What you’ll do in the role:

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is seeking an Associate, Strats in New York, New York to support, architect, and continuously enhance Morgan Stanley’s sales data and client- enablement infrastructure supporting Fixed Income electronic trading platforms. Analyze multi-source sales, client-onboarding, entitlement, and trade-reference data to identify systemic inefficiencies and performance bottlenecks.

Apply findings to inform strategic decisions across Sales, Trading, Technology, Risk, and Operations. Design, implement, and optimize scalable, cost-efficient data and workflow solutions to improve client-onboarding throughput, electronic-trading readiness, sales-credit attribution, and platform performance across global Fixed Income businesses. Act as product owner for sales-data and client- enablement initiatives, defining detailed functional and technical requirements, prioritizing enhancements, and coordinating delivery across multiple technology and quantitative development teams.

Communicate with senior business and technology stakeholders to translate complex technical concepts into actionable business solutions, ensure alignment with strategic objectives, and drive adoption of new capabilities. Collaborate closely with Strat developers and engineers to deliver robust monitoring, reporting, and automation solutions that support revenue generation, operational-risk reduction, and the continued expansion of electronic trading. Telecommuting permitted up to 1 day per week.

What you’ll bring to the role:

  • Requires a Master’s degree in Information Systems, Finance, or a related field of study.
  • Requires three (3) years of experience in the position offered or three (3) years as an Analyst, Assistant Vice President, or a closely related occupation.
  • Requires three (3) years of experience with the following skills:
  • designing and maintaining scalable business intelligence infrastructure;
  • building analytical dashboards and reporting solutions using tools including Power BI, Streamlit, and Python;
  • queries, validates, and integrates data using SQL across relational and distributed databases;
  • analyzing multi-source data to identify operational bottlenecks and systemic inefficiencies;
  • applying principles of information systems design to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and consistency across platforms;
  • translating business, regulatory, and operational requirements into functional and technical specifications;
  • applying analytical and artificial-intelligence–based techniques to enhance data insights, automation, and decision support;
  • collaborating across teams to implement solutions aligned with business objectives;
  • application programming interfaces to enable data exchange and workflow integration across systems;
  • Unix-based environment;
  • financial products, market structure, and sales and trading workflows;
  • cloud-based data architecture using platforms including Snowflake, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Azure.
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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