Morgan Stanley: Commodity Structurer
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The Fixed Income Division is comprised of Commodities, Interest Rate and Currency Products, Credit Products and Distribution. Professionals in the Division assess and actively manages risk, trade securities, and structure as well as execute innovative transactions in the fast-paced and constantly changing global markets. The Commodities Division, with 200+ front office employees, is a market leader in energy, metals, and agricultural product trading worldwide whose professionals trade in both physical and derivative commodity risk.
The Global Commodities Structuring Group works closely with Commodities Origination and Trading teams across the globe to find solutions to complex client problems and evolve the commodity product offering. This involves ideating and implementing initiatives around new client solutions across derivatives and structured finance, trading risk management strategies, pricing and capital frameworks and taking ownership of the execution process. The team is also responsible for modelling transactions and analysing risks (market, credit, capital, operational), negotiating client confirmations and legal documentation, booking trades and coordination with second line functions (strats, operations, credit, valuation control, legal, finance). We work across the main commodities that Morgan Stanley trades – power, gas, oil, base metals, precious metals and agricultural and environmental products.
This role is for a Structurer in the Global Commodities Structuring Group, based in London.
Responsibilities:
A successful candidate would have an understanding of either derivative pricing or capital structure. The candidate would work closely with the origination and trading teams handling execution of complex trades, and coming up with ideas to mitigate risks and create PnL opportunities. Specific tasks will include:
Requirements:
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
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