FID - UK Inflation Trader LN (m|f|x) London

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Department Profile

The Fixed Income Division is comprised of Interest Rate and Currency Products, Credit Products and Distribution. Professionals in the Division assess and actively manages risk, trade securities, and structure as well as execute innovative transactions in the fast-paced and constantly changing global markets. The Commodities Division is a market leader across a broad range of commodities markets, with expertise in areas including client risk management, financing solutions and investor products Sales & Trading.

The UK Inflation desk is the firm’s primary marking desk for inflation linked instruments referencing uk inflation indices. The desk primarily focuses on providing corporate and institutional clients market-making and execution services across products such as inflation linked bonds and derivatives.

From the largest global institutions to innovative new hedge funds, investors come to Morgan Stanley for sales, trading, and market-making services in almost every type of financial instruments including stocks, bonds, derivatives, foreign exchange, and commodities. Our professionals provide liquidity and content to clients around the world, actively assessing and managing risk, trading securities, and planning and executing transactions in the fast-changing markets. As the needs of our clients become increasingly complex, we often develop customized solutions.

Tasks

• The successful candidate will be joining a team to trade Inflation/Rates products (Bonds, Swaps, Inflation, Options) in the EMEA region
• The role will initially focus around learning the various products that the desk trades, later moving into trading flow products, with progression following towards more complex products as experience develops.
• Acting as market maker for UK Inflation products through relative value trading and hedging services for both corporate and institutional clients.
• Creating and distributing market information on customer flows, trade ideas and general commentary on a daily and intra-daily basis
• Managing daily profit and loss reporting and utilizing highly specialized quantitative knowledge for relative value analysis and valuation and complex modelling of financial data.

Profile / Your qualification / Your personality

• Quantitative bachelor’s degree in a STEM subject (Finance/ Maths /Economics/ Sciences or Engineering)
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on numerical analysis, financial modelling, and data science.
• Strong knowledge of Fixed Income products with a specialisation in Interest Rates
• Strong work ethic and daily discipline to make consistent markets for clients and distributed daily information flow
• Proven experience of building models for trading and risk management.
• Demonstrated ability of writing comprehensive trading colour and making presentations on trading ideas and strategies.
• Excellent networker who is comfortable liaising with clients, sales, traders.
• Strong people management skills, dealing with infrastructure partners and experience of building trading systems and analytics.

That awaits you

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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Contact

Location

25 Cabot Square, GB-E14 4QA London