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The Fixed Income Division is comprised of Interest Rate and Currency Products, Credit Products and Distribution. Professionals in the Division assess and actively manage risk, trade securities, and structure as well as execute innovative transactions in the fast-paced and constantly changing global markets. The Commodities Division is a market leader in energy, metals, and agricultural product trading worldwide whose professional’s trade in both physical and derivative commodity risk.

Background

Morgan Stanley’s derivatives trading businesses operate in fast-moving global markets across asset classes. The First-Line Credit team partners directly with investment bankers, corporate derivatives marketers, traders, and structurers to evaluate counterparty and transactional credit risks, ensuring both strong business enablement and disciplined risk management. We are seeking a mid-level credit professional to support evaluation of new derivative transactions, develop balanced credit recommendations, and articulate views clearly to senior stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities:

Transaction Evaluation & Credit Underwriting

• Evaluate new counterparty risk associated with derivative transactions across corporate counterparties, PE funds, and securitization structures.
• Develop clear, balanced, and well-supported written credit analyses assessing counterparty fundamentals, transaction structure, collateral/CSAs, exposure dynamics, stress outcomes, and key risks.
• Present and defend transaction recommendations to senior leaders within the business and Firm Risk Management.
• Participate in transaction discussions with trading, structuring, capital markets origination and sales to ensure a shared view of credit appetite, structural mitigants, and commercial considerations.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a first-line partner to the trading desk—ensuring efficient information flow, early identification of credit issues, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Build strong working relationships with second-line Credit Risk Management, Legal, Trading, and Operations to support smooth execution of transactions.
• Support senior team members in due diligence discussions with counterparties for new relationships or complex structures.

Ongoing Portfolio Monitoring

• Maintain active oversight of assigned counterparty portfolio, including review of financial performance, industry trends, limit usage, and exposure changes.
• Identify emerging risks proactively and escalate as appropriate.
• Assist in preparing periodic portfolio reports summarizing ratings changes, excesses, and market impacts for senior management.

Documentation & Reporting

• Prepare concise yet thorough credit memoranda, exposure summaries, and transaction approvals for internal committees.
• Contribute to ad hoc presentations for business leadership, Firm committees, and regulatory inquiries.
• Review trade requests for exposure profiles, tenor, documentation considerations (ISDA/CSA), and structural elements.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 4–8 years of relevant experience in one or more of the following:
  • Credit rating agency (corporates, financial institutions, or structured products)
  • Leverage / Acquisition Finance team
  • Secured lending team
  • Bank credit risk management team
  • Structuring or credit-intensive role within a bank’s trading or capital markets division
• Strong analytical ability and comfort working with complex information under time pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to develop coherent credit views and communicate them clearly—both in writing and in discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with traded products, ISDAs/CSAs, and exposure concepts preferred.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced trading-floor environment while managing multiple deliverables.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset to partner effectively with front-office teams.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience with derivatives exposure metrics, stress testing concepts, and transaction structuring.
• Experience presenting credit recommendations to committees or senior risk stakeholders.
• Comfort interacting with clients, counterparties, and internal teams across the Firm.
• Interest in market, sector, and counterparty-specific developments relevant to traded credit exposures.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between between $150,000 and $200,000 per year commencement of employment for Associate, and between $160,000 and $250,000 per year commencement of employment for Vice President. 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.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

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