Liquidity Risk Analyst

Firm Risk Management (FRM) supports Morgan Stanley to achieve its business goals by partnering with business units across the Firm to realize efficient risk-adjusted returns, acting as a strategic advisor to the Board and protecting the Firm from exposure to losses as a result of credit, market, liquidity, model and other risks.

We are looking for an Analyst, within the Firm Risk Management's Liquidity Risk Department, to support providing independent oversight of the Firm's business activities, serving as a second line of defense to ensure that the size and composition of the Firm's liquidity resources are adequate in amount and quality.

The Liquidity Risk Department reports to the Chief Risk Officer and is responsible for independent oversight and monitoring of the Firm's overall trading, funding, financing and banking businesses, liquidity risk limit setting, risk assessment and analysis, and management and regulatory reporting, including adherence to relevant regulatory requirements.

What you'll do in the role:

• Identifying, assessing and monitoring liquidity risks related to the Firm's business activities
• Maintaining active dialogue with business units, Corporate Treasury, risk management colleagues, and other groups regarding business strategies, risk representation, and limit compliance
• Preparing and presenting briefings to senior management on key risk issues
• Collaborate with Technology on liquidity risk related projects
• Conduct analysis on key risk areas and communicate results with relevant stakeholders
• Creating high quality reports for Boards, Regulators and internal use on a regular basis
• Innovate ways to identify key risks/concentrations and implement processes to actively monitor these risks
• Assist, as needed, with the review and challenge of stress models

• Excellent academic background, preferably with a degree in business, finance or a quantitative discipline
• Strong understanding of risk and liquidity in relation to financial products
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Ability to synthesize complex data sets and problems and conceptualize appropriate solutions
• Proactive with the ability to work as both part of a close-knit team and independently
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple competing deliverables
• Excellent communication skills for written, graphical and verbal presentation, with high competency in Excel and Powerpoint