Job Description

Job Level : Analyst
Description

Role: Analyst, Strategic Business Analytics
Location: Baltimore

Firm Risk Management

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, operational, model and other risks.
Background on the Position

The role will reside within Firm Risk Management's Operational Risk Department. Operational Risk refers to the risk of financial or other loss, or potential damage to a firm's reputation, resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, systems, or from external events (e.g., fraud, legal and compliance risks or damage to physical assets). The Firm may incur operational risk across the full scope of its business activities, including revenue-generating activities (e.g., sales and trading) and control groups (e.g., information technology and trade processing). This position directly supports a senior-level team in operational risk by providing analytical, decision-making, and presentation support.
Primary Responsibilities

The ORD Strategic Business Analytics team provides primary global support across Operational risk to locations in New York, London, and Hong Kong. Team members have primary responsibility for a specific coverage area and work in close collaboration with other members of operational risk and business teams. As such there is flexibility in how responsibilities and tasks are managed across the team, both locally and globally.
Specific responsibilities include:

Support the Coverage team with a focus on analyzing large data sets of structured and unstructured data

Contribute to development of presentations for executive management and senior risk managers in support of our Risk management of our Operations division & Vendor management programs

Perform other ad hoc projects, analyses, and presentation support for the Coverage team

Work collaboratively with the Coverage teams in New York, data science colleagues in Mumbai to scope projects, define analytical approaches, establish time frames, conduct analyses and summarize conclusions in concise presentations

Participate in scenario analysis preparation supporting analytical approaches to estimate stress losses across a range of operational risks and a variety of business, operational and financial market conditions

Qualifications

Experience
Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Intellectually curious about risk management and reporting

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and an ability to present ideas concisely

Ability to communicate analytic results to a variety of stakeholders

Ability to work under pressure with competing demands and challenging deadlines

FRM is committed to creating and providing opportunities that enable our workforce to reflect diverse backgrounds and views.
Education: Any Graduate
Industry: Financial Services/Stockbroking

Skills Required