Credit & Structured Financing Product Control Vice President

Job Description

The Credit & SPG Product Control team is part of the Fixed Income Controllers Group. The immediate team consists of 5 people in London with a deployed team in Mumbai supporting the report production aspect of the role.

The team's overall role is to provide financial analysis and business performance metrics to support senior management decision making. This encompasses daily revenue analysis, profitability and balance sheet reporting plus liquidity, funding, capital and ROE analysis. The team is also responsible for signing off the month end financial statements and presentation of these to firm management and external auditors/regulators.

The Credit desk cover Bonds and Vanilla derivatives, across the EMEA Corporate Bond and Securitised Product market. Additionally the team covers Structured Credit Financing solutions for clients. This is a key role as these Business Units form an integral part of Morgan Stanley's EU Fixed Income trading division and are some of the largest revenue generators.

Primary Responsibilities

• The candidate will be involved in various aspects of the P&L review, analysis and commentary. The role has standard daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly deliverables as well as a significant amount of ad hoc queries.

The role will include:

• Production: Review of the financial statement information produced in Mumbai and distribution of this information to the business unit and internal clients.
• Control: Attesting to regulators and auditors on the accuracy and completeness of the financial statements.
• Business Performance: Assisting with production of monthly business packs for desk heads.
• Ad Hoc: Projects and Queries as raised by senior Finance and Business Unit management
• Management: Oversight responsibility for the controller team in London and Mumbai.
• Stakeholders: Ownership of the finance relationship with desk heads across the Credit Complex.

Qualifications

Skills required:

• The candidate should be a graduate and preferably a qualified accountant.

Other requirements include:

• Knowledge of financial products, Structured Credit Products would be preferable.
• High regard for attention to detail and accuracy to ensure close control of the P&L reported.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High self-motivation and the ability to work both independently and as an effective team member
• Ability to partner and work effectively both with direct team members and with colleagues across the wider organisation
• Strong planning and prioritization skills with the ability to work on multiple tasks and with multiple stakeholders
• Proficient in MS Office, specifically a strong command in Excel and PowerPoint

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