Fixed Income Division - Associate/Senior Associate, Munis Sales Trading (Mumbai)

The role is based out of Mumbai and requires working with the Emerging Markets Institutional Sales team in New York. The role will require a fast-learning, dynamic, pro-active, communicative person with exceptional attention to detail to assist the team in optimizing efficiency around client business.

Primary Responsibilities

Global role: Working with other Sales Assistants (SAs) to ensure seamless handover of trade bookings and amendments for the Global FXEM sales teams. This includes booking, allocating, and unwinding trades accurately and responding to follow ups from internal teams.

Client Queries & Requests: Liaising with Morgan Stanley clients middle and back offices to respond to requests related to post-execution events on CDS, IRS, and bond trades. Includes providing clients with trade information after a trade has been executed.

Solutions Post Trade Process: Working towards creating long term solutions to recurring administrative themes to help team efficiency.

On-Boarding: Assisting the sales teams with new on-boarding requests, liaising with internal stakeholders, and ensuring seamless start to finish approach to on-boarding new accounts. Working with internal teams to open new FX accounts, ensuring new on-boarded accounts are set up correctly in internal systems and mapped to the relevant salesperson.

Market / Trading Reporting: Utilizing market information on Bloomberg as well as trading flow information from internal systems to compile ad-hoc reports on current market trends and trading flows.

Experience and Skills Required

The basic skills required for the role are the ability to learn quickly how to navigate databases, manipulate data from these confidently in Excel and respond to requests promptly.

We are looking for a confident and outgoing person, who has exceptional attention to detail and is proactive in taking initiative. Successful candidates will have a proven work experience analysing data.

Excellent written & spoken English; Excellent business writing skills

Excellent telephone and communication skills (regular phone contact with team and internal stakeholders required)

Advanced knowledge and extensive hands‑on experience with Microsoft Office - Word, Excel including macros, PowerPoint.

Familiarity with databases, and the ability to manipulate/analyse data confidently

Experience/exposure to fixed income markets and systems will be valuable.

Strong analytical skills, Attention to detail, Teamwork, Problem solving

“Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.”

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

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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.

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