QDS Asia Strats , Senior Manager , Institutional Equity Division

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Department Profile

From global institutions to hedge funds, investors come to Morgan Stanley for sales, trading, and market-making services in almost every type of financial instrument in all the world’s financial markets. Morgan Stanley professionals use our network and technology to provide liquidity and sophisticated analysis, to manage risk and execute reliably in the fast-changing markets.

Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division (IED) is a world leader in the origination, distribution and trading of equity, equity-linked and equity-derivative securities. Our broad and deep client relationships, market-leading platform and intellectual insights enable us to be a world-class service provider to our clients for their financing, market access and portfolio management needs.

Primary Responsibilities

The Quantitative and Derivative Strategies Group (QDS) provides investment strategies and quantitative models and bespoke strategies for external clients and the sales desk. We are looking for proactive, self-starting individual to be part of QDS Asia group. This is a challenging role and offering exposure to an interesting, dynamic product group and work environment to build your career in. The role also offers a unique opportunity of exposure to financial analysis across varied industries/sectors combined with working on Sales & Trading related activities for the desk.

The role covers both delta one basket and derivatives support -

Responsibilities for this role would involve:

• Coordinate with sales to support client flows across vanilla and exotic derivatives, from pricing, execution to trade booking, reconciliation, trade documentation drafts.
• Manage trade lifecycle (amends/cancels, booking breaks, operational follow‑ups).
• Manage basket maintenance - including index/basket rebalance coordination, implementation checks, corporate action impacts etc.
• Provide daily analytical support for flow, market, trend analysis through data extraction, process, feed etc.
• Maintain tracking/monitoring of thematic/factor/regional baskets, including relative performance and key drivers. Assist in the construction of baskets and index.
• Drive ad‑hoc system/workflow projects to improve desk efficiency, automation, repeatability, and error reduction in daily outputs.
• Build scalable tools (Python; Excel/VBA where relevant) to streamline reporting, analytics, and operational workflows.

Office Timings: 06 AM – 03 PM

Skills required (essential)

• Degree with quantitative discipline (BE, BTech, MS in Maths/Statistics/Financial Engineering).
• 4-5 years’ prior exposure to Index/Quants Research and equities/multi asset indices analytics is important.
• Coursework/Strong understanding in Finance Market, (Derivatives Knowledge must)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills/Ability to express ideas via writing. Prior track record in writing marketing material/trade ideas for wider distribution will be advantageous.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Python & KDB (both mandatory).

In addition, the candidate should have theoretical or practical understanding of -

• Options and their behavior over time
• Basic options trading strategies
• General behavior of Equity Derivat