Job Specifications
Description
Morgan Stanley's Equity and Fixed Income businesses include sales, financing, prime brokerage, market-making and certain business-related investments. Financing activities include originating corporate loans and commercial real estate loans, providing secured lending facilities, and extending securities-based and other financing to customers.
In the Institutional Equity Division, the Strategy team works closely with the leadership team to develop multi-year strategic priorities, analyze competitive landscape, assess business mix, and identify and drive actionable expense management opportunities, including technology upgrades and process reengineering. Additionally, the team is responsible for the division's budgeting, forecasting, and capital planning processes, and supports divisional management in internal and external communication.
The team has built broad and deep partnerships with Fixed Income, Global Capital Markets, Research, Finance, Treasury, Capital Planning, Investor Relations, Risk Management and Technology to ensure Firm-wide alignment on strategy and execution. Team members thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy the challenges of problem-solving across large and dynamic businesses.
JOB SUMMARY
Key Responsibilities:
Advance the Generative AI agenda within the Institutional Equity Division as one of Morgan Stanley's key near-term priorities, including:
Develop the business case, strategy and roadmap for integrating Gen AI into workflows
Identify, coordinate and prioritize the development and deployment of Gen AI use cases
Engage with sales, trading and prime brokerage leadership globally to develop strategic plans and tactical initiatives, including:
Identify and prosecute cross-business opportunities, monetizing institutional product capabilities across client segments
Conduct deep dive analysis on client wallet progression to inform opportunities
Engage with other business divisions, Treasury, Capital Planning, Investor Relations, Risk Management and Technology to ensure Firm-wide alignment on strategy and execution
Evaluate competitive dynamics with direct and third-party research and data analysis
Manage capital and financial resources planning, business budgeting and forecasting and regulatory updates
Support divisional management in internal and external communications
Qualifications:
2-3+ years of experience in strategy, management consulting or financial services
Proven conceptual and analytical problem solving, organizational ability, meticulous attention to detail
Ability to manage and prioritize complex, time-sensitive projects involving multiple stakeholders
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills and ability to interact with colleagues at all levels in a peer-like way, and achieve goals through collaboration with other teams within the Firm
Proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint; preference for candidates with Python experience
Preference for candidates familiar with institutional businesses
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 - 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.
To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $150,000 and $200,000 per year for Associate, and between $175,000 and $250,000 per year for VP, 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'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
About the Company
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, our firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals.
We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have always defined the firm and everything we do is guided by our five core values: Do the right thing, put cl...
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