Jobs at Morgan Stanley

Manages investment products and strategies, making product and market decisions, supporting prospects and clients, resolving complex operational escalations, and implementing strategic roadmaps. Leads cross-functional projects, oversees product marketing accuracy, and mentors product team members. Requires expertise in investment management, mutual funds, ETFs, SMAs, multiple asset classes, portfolio workflows, capital markets, and UCITS/MiFID governance.

Leads the design, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of resilient infrastructure automation for algorithmic trading. Provides Linux-based electronic trading platform expertise, partners with development and infrastructure teams, manages technical risk, and supports scalable systems. The role includes technical leadership, mentoring engineers and SREs, full-lifecycle ownership, incident review, and adoption of SRE practices. Advanced Python, Unix/Linux, infrastructure automation, debugging, CI, Git, Jenkins, and software engineering expertise are required.

Supports EMEA Operations and Corporate Services leaders across the full HR lifecycle, including employee relations, workforce planning, recruitment, compensation, performance, talent management, organizational effectiveness, and diversity and inclusion. Provides risk-aware HR advice, coaches managers, supports organizational change and workforce planning, contributes to compensation processes, and uses HR data to inform decisions across a complex, global matrix environment.

Supports Morgan Stanley’s EMEA Ratings Advisory team on corporate transactions and capital structuring. Responsibilities include peer benchmarking, credit analysis, preliminary rating assessments, managing rating-process workstreams, and coordinating clients, rating agencies, and other stakeholders. The role requires strong analytical, numerical, organizational, communication, and project-management skills, along with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. Investment banking or credit ratings experience is preferred but not required.

Lead company, market, and industry research across EMEA Industrials, delivering analytics, benchmarking, transaction analysis, and actionable insights to internal financial-services clients. Build AI-enabled workflows and agents with validation, governance, and escalation controls. Partner with senior stakeholders across Investment Banking, Research, Investment Management, Sales & Trading, and Wealth Management while improving research processes and managing information products, vendors, and data suppliers.

Develop and maintain low-latency order routers connecting trading applications to exchanges, brokers, systematic internalizers, and other liquidity sources. Responsibilities include designing software, supporting production infrastructure, exchange certification, regression testing, deployment, L3 support, break-fix work, and platform modernization. The role requires collaboration with product and technical teams, management of multiple initiatives, and expertise in C++, distributed applications, Unix/Linux, FIX, threading, design patterns, and exchange protocols.

As a Director in Internal Audit for Investment Management, you will lead risk assessments, audit activities, and stakeholder discussions, while utilizing AI and data analytics for insights.

Maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and modernize large-scale production Linux infrastructure. Build automation, improve reliability and operational efficiency, support trading system applications, and troubleshoot networking, performance, and kernel issues. Participate in global on-call rotations, change and incident management, documentation, infrastructure integration, and technical review forums while collaborating with engineering, development, operations, and project teams.

Lead developer for low-latency, high-volume equities trading systems. Build, deploy and support algorithmic trading strategies and scalable trading engine infrastructure using core Java. Work across global trading, quant and IT teams through full SDLC to improve execution performance, analytics, messaging, and time-series analysis (KDB/q).

Provide legal coverage for real estate and infrastructure transactions, including M&A, takeovers, restructurings, financings, and joint ventures. Advise investment and transaction teams on fund governance, regulatory matters, financing, tax structuring, financial crime, contracts, distribution, investor onboarding, and fund operations. Support private-market product launches and assess legal and regulatory developments affecting the investment management platform.

Drive growth of electronic Rates sales by interfacing with clients, trading, e-strats and technology. Analyze e-trading performance, build client analytics and dashboards, support onboarding to electronic venues, manage client tiering, and partner on automation and platform enhancements to scale the eRates franchise.

Develop and support Python-based data analytics and Scala-based risk and P&L systems for EU flow trading. Improve workflows, analyze large datasets, support production trading applications, collaborate with trading, sales, operations and other Strats to drive P&L opportunities and system improvements.

Work on M&A, capital markets and strategic advisory engagements for power, utilities and renewables clients. Perform financial analysis, modelling, industry research, prepare client presentations, support deal execution, advise clients, mentor analysts, and collaborate with senior bankers and cross‑team stakeholders.

Perform assurance activities for EMEA Finance including audits, continuous monitoring and closure verification; adopt audit tools, analyze data for risks and anomalies, communicate findings, collaborate with stakeholders, and manage multiple deliverables.

The Sanctions Compliance Officer will advise on economic sanctions compliance, address queries, track regulatory changes, and develop training programs. Responsibilities include oversight of financial crime compliance in EMEA and ensuring adherence to laws and regulations.

Lead liquidity regulatory policy for UK and EU, develop firm positions on LCR/NSFR and prudential standards, advise on regulatory impacts of strategic initiatives, represent the firm in industry fora, and partner with Finance, Risk and business units on implementation and governance of regulatory change.

Perform execution consulting and bespoke Transaction Cost Analysis to improve algorithmic trading performance. Conduct equity market-structure research (market impact, dark liquidity, smart order routing), build large-scale data pipelines, enrich datasets, and apply statistical/econometric and programming skills to support trading models and client-facing analysis.

The Client Financing Strategist role involves developing pricing models, trading applications in Python/Scala, and improving risk analytics while leveraging GenAI technologies.

The candidate will develop and maintain pricing and risk models, support trading activities, and enhance valuation tools, collaborating with various teams.

Lead regional HR communications strategy, adapt global messages for local context, partner with regional HR leadership on planning and high-impact moments, ensure governance and channel standards, surface regional insights and risks, and manage stakeholder communications to support enterprise consistency.