Senior Product Risk Manager, Institutional Equity Division | HK Talent Engage

Job description

About the Firm

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. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com .

About the Role

The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work as risk manager in the Morgan Stanley Institutional Equity Division's (IED) product and risk teams based in Hong Kong. We are looking for high energy, goal driven, self-motivated candidates who have strong and genuine interests in electronic trading risk management with good analytical skills and firm commitment in striving for excellence. The candidate must be a great team player, able to work effectively and pleasantly with colleagues across the firm and willing to travel.

The position requires someone who has managed risks associated with client execution business covering DMA & Algo trading risk, operational risk, technology, and regulatory risks. The shortlisted candidate needs to be a team player and collaborate with client coverage, product, and risk management teams, is an excellent communicator, and who can negotiate with internal and external stakeholders. Qualified candidates need a strong background in electronic trading, risk management and client execution business across equity, listed derivatives, swaps and stock loan businesses. The successful candidate is able to understand and analyze complex risk situations, actively manage risk reduction with appropriate escalations. This is an opportunity to work with a fast-moving, talented team, while interfacing with business owners, risk management and technology teams across the Firm.

Key Responsibilities

The role sits inside the IED business, not in business control unit (BCU), and will report to Electronic Trading business management. The reporting lines and organizational location are reflective of the detailed involvement in the day-to-day operations of the listed securities trading.

Key elements of role:

1. Trading Controls - Management of implementation of client and engine trading limits across equity

• Review limits usage in tandem with coverage productivity and recommend appropriate adjustments to limit thresholds
• Error Management (outage calls, determination of client error fill, trade out and future resolution plans)
• Establish appropriate supervisory structure, execution risk management and desk procedures
• Enforce procedures covering risk checks; limits change policy and management, release of DMA and algorithmic orders into the market.
• Ensure coverage and sales traders are appropriately trained and are exercising appropriate judgment
• Management of information barriers inter and intra desk, client aliasing and coverage groups

2. Control Infrastructure - Strategic direction of trading controls across equity and between regions and products

• Joint-ownership of key firm risk infrastructure (CFM, GLM, MFC, Handbrake, MIB, DLA)
• Joint-ownership (BURM) of execution services related regulatory initiatives
• Coordinate with product and liquidity management on order handling controls (CRDB)

3. Coordination / External Facing - Proactive coordination with Electronic Trading Risk Management (ETRM) and Counterparty risk and 2LOD teams

• Coordinate with global counterparts to ensure best practice
• Liaising with clients to communicate and manage risk controls
• Regulatory and exchange face off for electronic trading.
• Collaborate global client selection policy and manage the client selection process in the region.
• Work with trading desks in the region to understand the business and regulatory initiatives and help prioritize risk initiatives.
• Maintain roadmaps for the risk initiatives.
• Manage technology outages and associated client and business risk.

As part of the IED Product and risk team, the role of the risk manager is to work with desk coverage, product managers / strategists within MSES and others desks in IED and contribute towards business risk initiatives.

Overall, the position requires extensive interaction with execution services and other trading desks, clients, and MS IT teams in the region and globally. As such, strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

Required:

At least 6+ years of experience in financial systems/strategy development and 2-3 years of relevant experience in risk management, with primary focus on execution risk management front to back. - Basic understanding of selling/trading equities, futures, options, swaps and other asset classes

• Extensive knowledge of trading risk management in equities, futures & options
• Familiar with abnormal trading rules in Asian markets like China, Korea and India.
• A very good understanding of technology - software technology specifically
• Professional functional specification, use case, process flow diagram and product documentation writing.
• Results oriented, "Get It Done" type of person. Self-motivated and disciplined.
• Excellent analytical / problem solving skills.
• Excellent project management skills with attention to detail and handle numerous simultaneous large projects, small tasks and ad-hoc requests.
• Ability to work independently and to drive projects to completion, while proactively ensuring project teams and relevant stakeholders are kept up to date and expectations properly managed
• Fast learner with a good memory
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Mandarin. Must be able to succinctly articulate complex concepts.
• Effective time management, relationship management, negotiation and prioritization skills
• Thorough knowledge of componentized applications, data models and referential data sources.

Educational Requirements - Bachelors Degree