2023 Corporate Treasury Industrial Placement Internship (London)
Job description
Placement and duration
Corporate Treasury sources, manages and protects Morgan Stanley’s vital liquidity, funding and capital resources, enabling the Firm’s core businesses to meet their commercial objectives, whilst also maintaining a focus on efficient resource usage. In your placement you will get the opportunity to understand how the Firm meets new and existing regulatory requirements, adapts to market volatility and stress scenarios, and plans for strategic change. Corporate Treasury works closely with broader Finance, the Risk Division, the Business Units (Institutional Securities Group) and senior Firm management.
You will develop technical, analytical and presentation skills that you will be able to use at University and in your future career. Your communication skills will be enhanced as you interact with colleagues across a range of seniority levels and global locations (predominantly New York, Budapest and Frankfurt).
The Corporate Treasury Industrial Placement Program is aimed at students in their penultimate year of university who are studying a sandwich course that involves a year in industry. The Program runs annually, beginning in June, with students placed into one of five functional Treasury teams where they will spend the majority of their placement. Industrial Placement students will have the ability to work with the other Treasury teams to gain a holistic understanding of how the whole Treasury department works. The functional teams include Liquidity, Capital, Funding, Legal Entity Management and Recovery & Resolution Planning (RRP).
Training program
Training begins with a Firmwide induction along with peers from other divisions. This is followed by four days of classroom-based product and technical training. Industrial Placement students also receive considerable on-the-job training, a series of education sessions, Treasury-wide meetings, networking events and work-shadowing opportunities.
A typical Industrial Placement role will include:
- Distilling and co-ordinating information for presentations and proposals for various Firm governance committees and Senior Management
- Presenting your work and responding to queries at regional and global meetings
- Contributing to strategic projects such as process improvement, automation and simplification
- Providing ad hoc analytical support across the treasury team
- Building effective working relationships with other key stakeholders within Corporate Treasury as well as Firm Risk Management, Bank Resource Management, the Business Units, Finance, Operations, and Technology
Depending on which Treasury team you are placed in the role may include:
- Analysing and understanding the drivers of capital, liquidity and funding resources and requirements for Morgan Stanley entities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
- Monitoring interest rate and Foreign Exchange (FX) risks, and proposing hedging actions to reduce risk exposure
- Overseeing unsecured funding issuances (Structured Notes), including approval of products used, pricing and identifying ways to increase automation of the workflow
- Supporting the definition and execution of the Firm’s Legal Entity Strategy across EMEA, determining where the Firm should consider opening legal entities or branches, and how these should be structured
- Supporting the Firm’s testing and assurance framework to ensure Morgan Stanley is confident it can respond and survive periods of financial stress (Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP))
- Supporting the development of regulatory deliverables such as the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) and Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process (ILAAP)
Qualifications/ Skills/ Requirements
•Pursuing a Bachelor's Degree.
•Track record of academic excellence.
•Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities.
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
•Ability to analyze and synthesize a variety of data to produce well-designed and meaningful summaries and reports.
•Adept at solving problems and developing efficient processes.
•Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
This Program is closed to applications.