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Firm Risk Management

Firm Risk Management (FRM) supports Morgan Stanley to achieve its business goals by partnering with business units across the Firm to realize efficient risk-adjusted returns, acting as a strategic advisor to the Board and protecting the Firm from exposure to losses as a result of credit, market, liquidity, model and other risks.

Background on the Position
The role will reside within the Firm Risk Management's Credit Risk Management department, which is a team dedicated to managing credit risk associated with Morgan Stanley's leveraged finance originations business.

Primary Responsibilities:
- Evaluate leveraged lending requests across sectors, (potentially including Healthcare, Technology, Energy, Industrials, Transportation, Services, Real Estate, and others), from Morgan Stanley clients and present and defend recommendations to senior leadership within Credit Risk Management and Capital Commitment Committee
- Manage relationships with the investment banking and capital markets coverage teams, including ensuring proper information flow and appropriately identifying and conveying credit issues
- Prepare and oversee documentation for credit decisions, including credit memos, detailed financial forecasts, and credit risk rating models
- Oversee portfolio monitoring across a large range of investment grade and non-investment grade companies
- Maintain an active view of single name, sector, and industry trends and ongoing communication with senior stakeholders and onsite regulatory team
- Manage credit portfolio regulatory risk and address related inquiries

• Bachelor's Degree
  - Minimum 10 years of experience in a similar credit role
  - Experience with leveraged lending, including large-scale leveraged buyouts
  - Excellent analytical and quantitative skills with ability to assess complex information quickly and accurately
  - Strong verbal and oral communication skills to condense and articulate complicated ideas and findings clearly and succinctly
  - Ability to defend recommendations across multiple stakeholders, including credit risk management and the business unit management
  - Ability to work under pressure managing multiple time-sensitive deliverables
  - Experience developing and managing junior talent

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $110,000 and $190,000 year at the commencement of employment.  However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).