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.

Technology

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses?and to our own.

P&L Control Technology

This group within Technology is responsible for developing enterprise applications for the Finance division and is focused on various initiatives to help renovate and automate their business processes. The team is distributed globally across London, New York, Budapest, Montreal and Mumbai and mostly co-located with Finance end users, and has daily interaction with them.

Position Description:

The team develops applications to provide services for Morgan Stanley?s Liquidity Investments and Funding Controllers group. These applications include a feature-rich Windows and Web/Angular UI, highly flexible and scalable services, large scale online analytical processing of large datasets and warehouse reporting. The technology team practices agile development and uses multiple JVM languages including Scala, Java and Groovy.

The team is working on a front-to-back initiative to renovate the accounting platform by automating complex accounting rules as well as decommission a legacy platform. The program addresses regulatory and audit findings thematically, providing an efficient framework for better control and reporting over time. The objectives of the projects include:

• Consolidate sourcing, integrating and verifying of information across Control Functions.
• Post to the General Ledger from that same repository, allowing easy drill-back to the underlying business events.
• Enable continued business process integration within and across Control Functions.
• You will be expected to work as a member of the development team and participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, with automated testing, tools, and shared libraries development.
• The ideal candidate will possess solid technical and problem solving skills as well as the drive to learn more about the business and new technologies. Candidate should be open to work from front to back on applications and must have a sound grasp of development best practices and system architecture.
• She/he will be expected to drive standardization and architecture discussion across the team and be responsible for high quality implementations. Expertise in any one of the following business domain would be preferable: Accounting, Finance and Control Functions.

Qualifications:

Skills Required:

• 3-6 years of experience in database and scripting/ETL technologies
• Strong data modelling and database design skills
• Experience working with data warehousing technologies and frameworks
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency in scripting python or Unix shell
• Experience working in an agile team with focus on continuous integration and automated testing

Skills Desired:

• Experience with Teradata or other similar large RDBMS technologies such as GP, DB2 DPF
• Experience with Business Intelligence and Data Visualization frameworks such as Tableau, PowerBI and Business Objects
• Knowledge/experience with Cloud and Cloud native database technologies such as Snowflake
• Java/server side programming experience preferred
• Experience working on large and medium scale projects in an agile environment
• Bachelors or Master?s Degree in Computer Science or related field