FID, ALM Insurance Solutions - VP/ED

Morgan Stanley•New York, NY

2d•$200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture. Morgan Stanley ALM Team The Morgan Stanley ALM team engages with a broad range of clients – including insurance companies, pensions, banks and corporates – on the impact of risk on a company’s income statement, balance sheet, and capital; structuring optimal benchmarks for asset allocation and liability management; assessing the impact of regulatory and accounting changes on asset and capital allocation and pricing decisions. The team is at the centre of Morgan Stanley’s efforts to offer complex customized analysis to our premier clients and to tailor value-added solutions which support the achievement of the client’s business objectives. In addition to being a client-facing group, the ALM team works closely with many coverage and product teams within other areas of the firm including Global Capital Markets (GCM), Fixed Income, Equity and Investment Banking. The team has developed a suite of models which are applied and customized to each client in a project framework. As such the models embody the collective insights and experience accumulated by the team, and incorporate the current regulatory, accounting and corporate finance frameworks appropriate to the task. ALM (Asset Liability Management) Insurance Solutions The Morgan Stanley ALM team is part of the Fixed Income Division (FID) and covers the firm’s most prestigious institutional clients. The team has a global mandate working with our partners in Europe, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong covering insurance, pensions, banks and corporates. Currently, the team consists of a mixture of Actuaries, Accountants and PhDs, who work to develop cross-asset quantitative solutions, mindful of regulatory and accounting impacts. The ALM team is looking to hire a highly commercial, client facing US insurance expert to lead cross-asset ALM solution sales coverage of US insurers The successful candidate will be working with US Rates Structuring, US Insurance Sales and the broader global ALM Team.

Requirements

5+ years’ experience covering US insurance companies from a fixed income sales perspective, or direct experience working at a senior strategy level at a US insurance company
Ability to lead and direct the ALM Team’s US business, with proven communication skills at senior client level, commercial acumen to build a sales strategy and to command internal followership
Strong mathematics and finance skills, with experience working with quantitative methods