Associate/Senior Associate, Futures Content

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 Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 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 world’s 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 Stanley’s 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 Stanley’s Sales & Trading businesses in India. It covers functions across IED and Fixed Income Division (FID) ranging from those associated with sales, trading, analytics, strats to risk management.

Primary Responsibilities for Associate/Senior Associate, Futures Content

The Futures Content team is responsible for creating differentiated and value-added content and analyses around cross-asset futures markets, and engaging with institutional clients to drive Listed Derivatives revenues. We develop frameworks, rooted in a fundamental understanding of futures markets, to identify trading opportunities based on positioning, liquidity, and costs.

Responsibilities for this role would involve:

• Work on quantitative analytics on large historical futures time-series datasets using Python, build custom functions and tools to streamline exploratory analysis.
• Streamline processes through Python to automate output generation, validation and updates of our futures models.
• Handle ad-hoc requests from stakeholders, delivering timely, data-driven insights and live context on futures market movements.
• Pulling various stats on several market metrics like returns, liquidity, open interest changes, volumes, margins, etc.
• Scheduling and running Jupyter notebooks, VBA macros that pull in the latest data inputs, refresh calculations, apply the methodology and generates positioning & liquidity reports.
• Troubleshoot errors on Python/ VBA macros that may occur while working on different frameworks.
• Working knowledge of Bloomberg.

Skills Required (essential)

• 2-4 years of relevant working experience on Python, VBA and Excel.
• Engineering Degree.
• Mandatory knowledge of programming languages such as Python and VBA to work with financial data.
• Understanding of Futures market.
• Strong inter-personal / communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Drive and desire to work in an intense team-oriented environment.
• Note this is NY shift (1730-0230 IST) in a hybrid work setup.

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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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize 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.

Key skills/competency

• Quantitative Analytics
• Python Programming
• VBA Macros
• Futures Markets
• Financial Data Analysis
• Data Automation
• Report Generation
• Bloomberg Terminal
• SQL/Time-series Data
• Communication Skills