Fund Services Product Development - Technical Associate

MORGAN STANLEY FUND SERVICES

Established in 2004, Morgan Stanley Fund Services (MSFS) is a global business within the Institutional Equities Division (IED) that provides fund administration services for over $700billion in assets across 350+ hedge funds, private equity and large family offices clients.  Our best-in-class offering includes accounting and investors services, portfolio analytics, middle-office functions, regulatory and financial reporting, and tax services.  Delivering these services to our clients and their investors is a diverse team of 1,400 highly skilled employees across the globe based in New York, London, Glasgow, Dublin, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong. Joining MSFS, you will discover a dynamic environment where every day offers new opportunities for personal growth and innovation.  Here at MSFS your career isn’t just a job, it’s an incredible journey fueled by collaboration, challenge, and the chance to make a meaningful impact to our business, our clients, their investors and the wider Morgan Stanley franchise.

The Product Development team is the engine at the heart of our MSFS technology ecosystem, ensuring our platforms perform seamlessly for clients and colleagues every day while leading transformative changes across our business. Through the team’s deep partnership with our Technology department, they are reimagining how we work and how clients and their investors engage with MSFS. This team enables breakthrough innovation and an elevated user experience. Product Development is also at the forefront of adopting advanced technologies, including robotics and artificial intelligence, to deliver greater scale, efficiency, and operational excellence for MSFS and its stakeholders.

The current opening is for the Client Computing Solutions (CCS) Team which is part of Product Development function. The CCS Team develops tools to resolve complex business problems that are overwhelming and error-prone if handled manually by front-line colleagues.  Complexity is often found in areas such as investor services, investor allocation, regulatory reporting, capital activities and trade transaction management. The Team is comprised of colleagues who have had solid technical education and have studied finance and accounting as the chosen field to apply the skills.  The CCS Team tends to focus on very complex, specific and urgent circumstances, and the solutions tend to be highly customized for the clients concerned, and rapid turnaround is usually a requirement.

The CCS Team currently seeks a candidate with skills in programming, a keen interest in process optimization, and a structured approach to problem solving.  The business environment is complex and there are many processes that require deep analysis followed by end-to-end automation.  We are seeking leaders who can help further enhance the performance of the organization, by applying his/her creativity, and by making use of familiar tools and new tools in the marketplace. The candidate’s responsibility will span across almost all facets of MSFS, working with various groups on such projects. Besides analytical and technical skills, the candidate must have good communication skills, a collaborative attitude, high creativity, as well as being an independent thinker and at the same time a great listener.

Key responsibilities:

• Liaise with executive management & business users across locations to understand/ document business requirements, detail the use cases & propose solution options

• Design & develop a solution which is flexible to incorporate changes and scalable

• End-to-end ownership of the tools built for client processes

• Envisioning scenarios and take steps to incorporate them in the solution

• Own deliverables across the automation journey to ensure the use cases and scenarios are properly documented & analysed

• Create & manage project plans, call out risks & issues proactively, report progress against the plan & track associated project benefits

• Create training plans & provide trainings to team-members & users as need arises

• Ability to wear multiple hats including but not limited to Business Analyst, Developer, Project Manager, Tester & Business User

Requirements:

• Degree in computer science, mathematics, economics or equivalent software engineering field, along with either an MBA or CFA or equivalent degree/certification in Finance or Accounting

• Experience with Hedge fund accounting is a plus

• Demonstrated programming skills in any one language, experience with VBA or Python languages is a plus. Experience using GitHub Copilot or other AI/ML based tools is a