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Company Profile: Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, 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. In the Prime Brokerage and Institutional Equity division, we provide our clients around the world with intellectual insights and innovative product solutions and services that help them generate alpha. What youll do in the role: Morgan Stanley Services & Co. LLC is seeking an Associate, Strats in New York, NY to Analyze and develop trading strategies for the risk trading desk using the in-house strat infrastructure. Contribute to index research and analysis. Research and develop suitable hedging strategies for portfolios optimized for various constraints. Explore alternative datasets to identify new revenue opportunities and provide overlays on existing risk. Develop tools around the life cycle of rebalances, including risk management, timing, performance, and impact analysis. Monitor and analyze the effectiveness of current strategies, advocate and implement changes as needed. Pay attention to changes in market structure and evaluate their impact on the business. Build solutions that involve a rapid transition from research to live trading. Build and utilize rich data sets to assist with research and analysis. What youll bring to the role:-Requires a Masters in Operation Research, Economics, or a related field-Requires three (3) years of experience in the position offered or three (3) years as an Assistant Vice President, or a related occupation-Requires three (3) years of experience with the following skills: Analytical and quantitative skills, including developing efficient software solutions across research and systematic trading platforms; KDB/Python, data structure, and algorithms; Trading platform development, optimization, and system design; Equity products and market structure, time series datasets; Flow analytics, portfolio risk models, trade cost analysis, and execution algorithms; Statistical/mathematical modeling and model validation. Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $200,000 and $200,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs. Qualified Applicants: To apply, visit us at and enter JR022477 in the search field. No calls please. EOE