Vice President - Equity Trade Operations

Overview

We re seeking someone to join our team as a Vice President in ISG Equity Operations. The New York Equity Trade Support Group is the point on all operational issues for the Institutional Equity Trading Desks. They communicate daily with Traders, Legal, Compliance, Controllers, and Information Technology. A Vice President in this role manages the trading assistants to ensure that the trading desks are receiving high quality support, mitigate risk, manage the teams performance, and look for opportunities to increase efficiency.

The role will manage Cash Trading and Sales Support, ETF Create/Redeem and PnS functions. In the Operations division, we partner with business units across the Firm to support financial transactions, devise and implement effective controls and develop client relationships. This is a Team Manager position at Vice President level within Product Support & Services, which is responsible for providing transaction support and managing post execution processes.

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• Provide regional leadership and cross functional partnership with direct responsibility of operational support of the cash equities sales and trading business.
• Senior accountability for the budget performance, operational excellence and people development agenda of their teams, plus for the delivery of a first rate client service experience by those teams.
• Broad knowledge across multiple products, markets and services. Understands market drivers and can engage with senior stakeholders and business unit leads on business strategy.
• Represents Morgan Stanley in senior external market forums and with regulators for their area of responsibility.
• Serve as a process owner and be accountable for optimization and efficiency opportunities
• Establishes, facilitates and communicates the Morgan Stanley stance and direction on key external issues.
• Identifies opportunities for achieving competitive advantage and thinks beyond current transactions/issues to strengthen internal and external client relationships.
• Keeps clients informed of trends, issues and industry initiatives relevant to their business.

• Manage multiple work streams and prioritize effectively.
• Seeks new opportunities for self-development and career progression; ensures core skill set is best utilized by the Firm.
• Commitment to learn from experience and mistakes; actively seeks out feedback and adjusts behavior accordingly.
• Aware of longer term impact of regulatory environment and market changes on the business. Makes plans where appropriate to adapt control processes and procedures.
• Identifies the right levels of control and measures required, creating a strong yet flexible workflow.
• Proactively ensures existence of mitigating controls and takes personal responsibility for enhancing processes.
• Combines clear and appropriate escalation with suggestions on appropriate risk reduction strategies.
• At least 7 years  relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for the role
• Bachelor s degree required
• Prior experience managing an Operations function
• Strong managerial skills with experience of leading highly successful Operations teams
• Proven leader who can balance tactical and strategic priorities

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.

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