Job Summary

As part of the Fixed Income Division, the Trading Assistant is responsible for working with and supporting the Client Financing Trading desk from Mumbai. Trading Assistant provides high-quality front-office support to Rates Trading and Client Financing desks across cash securities, interest-rate derivatives, repo and reverse repo, securities lending, and related financing products.

Primary Responsibilities

- Provide day-to-day support to traders across relevant cash and derivative products, including government securities, bond-related derivatives, Total Return Swaps, repo, and reverse repo.
- Manage daily financing activities including reporting, MSIP collateral bookings, overborrow identification and returns, DW T0 covers, Fed borrow bookings, stock loan ticket repricing, and fully paid stock loan triparty updates.
- Perform PB re-rates, securities pool, BR GC repricing, agency/strip/special swing adjustments, and ensure correct funding rates are applied across GC and special securities positions.
- Monitor positions, shorts, overborrows, special coupon exposures, SOMA positions, and collateral movements; identify exceptions and report significant exposures or funding issues to traders, counterparties, and operations teams
- Produce daily P&L; reports, SOMA P&L; analysis, flow reporting, OFR/OTR trade reports, auction charts, dealer positioning charts, and other desk analytics to support trading decisions.
- Maintain TRS lifecycle events (resets, expiries, terminations), execute ETF create/redeem processes, perform ETF swings and hedging allocations, and ensure accurate portfolio positioning.




- Coordinate with traders, sales, counterparties, Treasury, Operations, and securities lenders; distribute reports, confirm bookings and provide regular market and position updates to the desk.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

- Bachelor s degree or equivalent qualification in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience in a trading-assistant, desk-support, trade-support, middle-office, client financing, or financial-markets role.
- Working knowledge of fixed-income and Rates products and the trade lifecycle.
- Robust analytical and problem-solving skills, advanced attention to detail and a disciplined approach to controls.
- Ability to prioritize competing deliverables and perform effectively during periods of market pressure.
- Proficiency in Excel VBA, SQL, Python, or comparable automation and comfort working with complex datasets.

Preferred

- Experience with government securities, interest-rate derivatives, futures, repo/reverse repo, securities lending, Client Financing, or TRS.
- Familiarity with trade-capture, market-data, confirmation, clearing, settlement, position, risk, and P&L; systems.
- Experience producing desk reporting, auction analytics, inventory reports, or financing analysis.
- Experience supporting global trading desks

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📌 Fixed Income Division - Associate/Senior Associate (Mumbai)
🏢 Morgan Stanley
📍 Mumbai