Operations Summer Analyst Program (Mar 2024)

About Morgan Stanley

Since its founding in 1935, Morgan Stanley has consistently delivered first-class business in a first-class way. Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services.

Your role

Operations is the front line of defense for Morgan Stanley’s financial well-being. One of the largest divisions in the Firm, Operations has diverse responsibilities including correctly settling and recording millions of transactions per day, identifying and mitigating all operational risks, developing strong client relationships, and partnering with technology.

Roles and responsibilities

• Trade capture, enrichment, and confirmation.
• Learn critical processes in the life cycle of a trade from deal capture to the final settlement.
• Reconciliation and record keeping: identify and resolve trading breaks from discrepancies dealing with security information, trading date and settlement date, executed quantity, taxes, commission, prices, and settlement locations.
• Data mining, reporting, documentation, preparation, and compilation of daily/weekly/monthly metric dashboards to ensure thorough business analysis.
• Collaborate with colleagues at all levels to complete daily tasks, and create best practice methodologies and approaches for business analysis, issue follow-up, and escalation.
• Develop relationships with clients (i.e. counterparties, traders, legal, credit, technology, controllers, and other functional teams) to understand the priorities of stakeholders and ensure that business needs are met, protect client confidentiality, and address ad-hoc requests in a timely fashion.
• Support and develop risk policies and control frameworks to minimize operational risk.
• Governance of tasks outsourced to vendors.
• Involvement in projects related to the job function.

Training & development 

The MSFS Internship Program has been designed to develop highly motivated professionals by providing a stimulating and supportive environment to understand the business and achieve maximum potential.  On joining, you will go through a training program that covers business process and systems training.

Summer Associates spend eight to ten weeks working on live projects, understanding the business workings and how Investor Services supports Morgan Stanley and its businesses.

Benefits

They provide the following benefits

• Health Care & Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vacation & Paid Time Off
• Maternity and paternity Leave
• Work From Home options 
• Student loan refinancing for you, your family, and your friends
• Cash management, securities-based loans, and home financing solutions with options for each stage of your life. 

Career Progression

A wealth of opportunities for career mobility and a culture that encourages employees to take on new challenges make Morgan Stanley India a hub for professional growth.

Morgan Stanley values and embraces uniqueness and individuality, and its commitment to diversity permeates all levels of the organization. By fostering an open and inclusive corporate culture, its employees can achieve their professional goals. Here, they focus on enhancing their employees' careers by offering various educational and professional development programs.

• Diversity Training
• Leadership Program 
• Project Career Development Program
• Project Impact leadership program.

Work-Life Balance

They have a good and inclusive work culture where they hugely invest in their employees’ learning and development training. It provides flexible work hours with work-from-home options. The company operates five days a week with an average of 55 working hours.

Culture & Vibe  

Morgan Stanley offers a dynamic and multifaceted environment that requires individuals to work closely with colleagues across various functions and the Business Unit in onshore regions. You will get to work with extremely talented peers in a meritocratic team-oriented culture.

About you

To apply for this role you must have:

• University student, who will graduate in 2025
• Willing to work flexible shifts starting and ending between 6:30 a.m. and midnight.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Pay close attention to detail and have strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to coordinate, prioritize, and manage multiple activities.
• Exhibit a strong sense of urgency, accountability, and, ownership.

How to apply

To apply for this role, click on the "Apply on employer site" button, which navigates to the career section where the application can be filled out and submitted directly.

Sources

The following source was used in researching this page:

• Morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/perks-benefits-working-at-morgan-Stanley
• Ambitionbox.com/benefits/morgan-stanley-benefits.