IED - Derivatives Clearing – Financing & Analytics - VP/ED

Morgan Stanley • New York, NY

1d • $200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As a part of Prime Brokerage, Morgan Stanley’s industry-leading Derivatives Clearing team manages the clearing of Futures, Options, and Over-the-Counter (OTC) Swaps at clearinghouses globally. Derivatives Clearing services are utilized by a variety of institutional client types leveraging both speculative and hedging strategies across a wide range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, FX, and commodities.
Team Overview - Financing & Analytics:
The Financing & Analytics team works within the derivatives clearing business to manage clearinghouse financing, business analytics, and capital optimization. The team serves a critical function guiding business senior management on client and clearinghouse financing and capital strategy to drive commercial results. The role involves working closely with colleagues in Sales, Finance, Operations and Technology.
Role Summary:
This role is a senior hire within Client Clearing Financing & Analytics, based in New York, responsible for driving financing strategy execution, advanced analytics, and capital optimization initiatives across Listed and OTC cleared products. The hire will partner closely with senior stakeholders globally and is expected to assume increasing ownership and autonomy across core workstreams as performance and business needs dictate.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; high attention to detail
• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously and present updates to senior stakeholders
• Strong quantitative, analytical and technical problem-solving skills; comfort working with large datasets and explaining results clearly
• Deep understanding of derivatives clearing economics (financing, margin, CCP dynamics) and ability to translate analysis into commercial action
• Strong team-player and collaborator, enthusiastic, motivated
• Ability to work autonomously; self-starter with strong ownership mentality
• Strong judgment under time pressure; ability to balance commercial outcomes with risk/control considerations
• Undergraduate degree required; advanced degree (MBA/MS/quant discipline) a plus
• Extensive clearing experience required (Futures and/or Cleared OTC Swaps); 10+ years strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience with at least two of the following: Derivatives clearing client pricing / financing strategy Financial performance analytics and attribution: experience building and explaining drivers of financing P&L, balances, and returns Capital optimization (GAAP balance sheet, net capital, leverage, RWA-related analysis) Liquidity analysis / optimization: strong familiarity with institutional liquidity frameworks and ability to quantify optimization levers CCP margin / concentration margin analytics and remediation Experience partnering with Technology/Strats resources to build scalable reporting and reduce manual processes

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day and strategic execution of client clearing financing initiatives across Listed and OTC cleared products, including financing structures, pricing inputs, and coordination with internal funding stakeholders (e.g., Treasury/Finance) to ensure disciplined risk-adjusted returns.
• Drive commercial opportunities through client financing analytics, including identifying accounts/opportunities for repricing and optimization, developing data-backed recommendations, and partnering with Sales/coverage teams to execute.
• Own financial performance analytics and attribution for client clearing financing: explain drivers of financing P&L, balances and returns, deliver variance commentary, and ensure outputs are decision‑useful for management and governance.
• Lead central counterparty (CCP) concentration margin management for the business: build/maintain concentration margin analytics, monitor drivers, and coordinate client remediation plans (commercial + operational) in partnership with Sales, Risk, Ops, and regional stakeholders.
• Define and execute capital strategy and optimization initiatives: partner with Finance/Risk to quantify capital impacts, propose remediation levers, and track delivery in the context of an evolving regulatory capital landscape.
• Lead liquidity impact analytics and optimization for client clearing: quantify liquidity consumption and identify levers in partnership with Treasury/Finance/Risk (e.g., stress/liquidity frameworks, funding impacts, CCP IM/VM dynamics).
• Act as a senior point of escalation for financing and analytics topics: respond to urgent questions with high-quality analysis, communicate crisply, and represent the function with credibility in senior forums.
• Continuous improvement / automation mindset: identify where reporting, controls, or data flows can be streamlined; partner with Technology/Strats resources to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy, timeliness, and transparency while maintaining strong risk and control discipline.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level