The Fixed Income Performance Reporting team is part of the European Sales & Trading Performance Reporting Team which covers Equity and Fixed Income.  

The team’s overall role is to provide operational, tactical and strategic information to support senior management decision making, leveraging and collaborating with other teams as appropriate.

Key Clients:
• Global & European Fixed Income Senior Management
• Regional Sales & Trading Senior Management
• Regional Finance Senior Management
• Global ISG Management Reporting Team (NY)
• Firm Management (regionally and globally)
• Support Service Senior Management (including Finance, Operations and IT)
• External (D&T, FSA, Oliver Wyman)

Working alongside existing team members, the candidate will be responsible for managing the day to day running of specific businesses within the Fixed Income side of the team, ensuring the team provide accurate and timely reporting to the BU clients and provide an excellent service to their client base primarily across Fixed Income.  

Responsibilities include:
• Be the main point person for the desks
• Provide value add analysis to support each desk with expense management initiatives including drill down of direct expenses, investigating one off and exception items, tracking monthly expenses against budget/forecast and suggesting actions to reduce costs.
• Review and feedback of Business Performance reports and expense analysis provided by our Budapest team. This will also involve constant communication with our Budapest colleagues to ensure deliverables remain on track.
• Business line and divisional level profitability reporting including summarizing revenue and expense movements for the month and versus prior year. This will involve liasing with different support or controller groups across the organization to fully understand cost base and drivers
• Continuous process improvement and enhancement across FID and wider S&T team.
• Involved in Firm performance reporting such as the Quarterly Board Pack, D&T and monthly FSA reporting.
• Risk identification and management – implement and maintain controls to ensure risks are identified and escalated as appropriate.
• Involvement in budget/forecasting exercise on behalf of the desks
• Approx 50% of the role will include some form of ad hoc request received from various clients. Specific examples include: external studies, cost per head analysis, regional office openings or close out etc.
• Contributing to driving change and progression of reporting and analysis across the team

Skills required:
• Sound numerical and accounting skills
• Strong guardianship – able to implement controls and escalate any issues which pose a risk to the team and it’s operations.
• IT literate
• Strong communication skills – able to deal effectively with clients, explaining facts clearly, communicates confidently and effectively across teams
• Good team / relationship building
• Planning and Organisation - Good time management skills with an ability to adapt to meet demanding  and changing deadlines in a constantly changing environment.  Able to prioritise own workload and that of others
• Sound analytical skills that support prompt identification and resolution of issues.  Is able to draw meaningful conclusions from available information.
• Sound Management reporting skills – recognising the importance of highlighting key issues and trends to Senior Management is essential
• Drive & Resilience - Seeks to consistently work to a high standard.  Is reliably able to produce work under pressure.
• A high level of Management accountancy/reporting experience in Banking
• Good working knowledge of Excel and other desktop applications.
• Client Facing
• Strong communicator

Skills desired:
Knowledge of the Securities market and products (although this need not necessarily be in Fixed Income itself).

Further information on Morgan Stanley and a full vacancy list can be found on:  http://www.morganstanley.com/about/careers/careersearch.html