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The Fixed Income Division is comprised of Interest Rate, Currency Products, Commodities, Credit Products and Distribution. Professionals in the Division assess and actively manages risk, trade securities, derivatives, lending and repo products, and structure as well as execute innovative transactions in the fast-paced and constantly changing global markets.
As part of the Fixed Income Division, the Trading Assistant is responsible for working with and supporting the Client Financing Trading desk from Budapest. Trading Assistant provides high-quality front-office support to Rates Trading and Client Financing desks across cash securities, interest-rate derivatives, repo and reverse repo, securities lending, and related financing products.
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day support to traders across relevant cash and derivative products, including government securities, bond-related derivatives, Total Return Swaps, repo, and reverse repo.
- Manage daily financing activities including reporting, MSIP collateral bookings, overborrow identification and returns, DW T0 covers, Fed borrow bookings, stock loan ticket repricing, and fully paid stock loan triparty updates.
- Perform PB re-rates, securities pool, BR GC repricing, agency/strip/special swing adjustments, and ensure correct funding rates are applied across GC and special securities positions.
- Monitor positions, shorts, overborrows, special coupon exposures, SOMA positions, and collateral movements; identify exceptions and report significant exposures or funding issues to traders, counterparties, and operations teams
- Produce daily P&L reports, SOMA P&L analysis, flow reporting, OFR/OTR trade reports, auction charts, dealer positioning charts, and other desk analytics to support trading decisions.
- Maintain TRS lifecycle events (resets, expiries, terminations), execute ETF create/redeem processes, perform ETF swings and hedging allocations, and ensure accurate portfolio positioning.
- Coordinate with traders, sales, counterparties, Treasury, Operations, and securities lenders; distribute reports, confirm bookings and provide regular market and position updates to the desk.
Qualifications and Experience
Required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience in a trading-assistant, desk-support, trade-support, middle-office, client financing, or financial-markets role.
- Working knowledge of fixed-income and Rates products and the trade lifecycle.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, advanced attention to detail and a disciplined approach to controls.
- Ability to prioritize competing deliverables and perform effectively during periods of market pressure.
- Proficiency in Excel VBA, SQL, Python, or comparable automation and comfort working with complex datasets.
- Availability to work according to New York trading hours.
Preferred
- Experience with government securities, interest-rate derivatives, futures, repo/reverse repo, securities lending, Client Financing, or TRS.
- Familiarity with trade-capture, market-data, confirmation, clearing, settlement, position, risk, and P&L systems.
- Experience producing desk reporting, auction analytics, inventory reports, or financing analysis.
- Experience supporting global trading desks.
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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline
- Relevant experience in trading assistance, desk support, trade support, middle office, client financing, or financial markets
- Working knowledge of fixed-income and Rates products and the trade lifecycle
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced attention to detail and disciplined approach to controls
- Ability to prioritize competing deliverables and perform under market pressure
- Proficiency in Excel VBA, SQL, Python, or comparable automation tools
- Comfort working with complex datasets
- Availability to work according to New York trading hours
- Experience with government securities, interest-rate derivatives, futures, repo, reverse repo, securities lending, Client Financing, or TRS
- Familiarity with trade-capture, market-data, confirmation, clearing, settlement, position, risk, and P&L systems
- Experience producing desk reporting, auction analytics, inventory reports, or financing analysis
- Experience supporting global trading desks
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What We Do
Morgan Stanley mobilizes capital to help governments, corporations, institutions and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. For over 85 years, the firm’s reputation for using innovative thinking to solve complex problems has been well earned and rarely matched. A consistent industry leader throughout decades of dramatic change in modern finance, Morgan Stanley will continue to break new ground in advising, serving and providing new opportunities for its clients. Morgan Stanley is committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have always defined the firm. At its foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide its more than 60,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 41 countries.
