Associate - Model Risk Quant (Risk Management)

Company Profile Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firms employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. 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 Morgan Stanley's Model Risk Management (MRM) department resides within Morgan Stanley's Firm Risk Management Division. Morgan Stanley's global MRM team, spread across New York, London, Mumbai and Budapest is broadly responsible for the risk management of all of the Firm's models involving model validation, risk assessment, and governance and act as an effective second line of defense within the Firm. Morgan Stanley is seeking a strong candidate to be a member of the MRM team in Mumbai, focused on the review, validation and risk assessment of models and tools including, but not limited to models / tool on Risk, Capital Planning, Asset Management, AI based Decision Support. Primary Responsibilities The primary responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to the following: - Provide independent review and validation compliant with MRM policies and procedures, regulatory guidance and industry leading practices, including evaluating conceptual soundness, quality of model / tool methodology, model / tool limitations, data quality, and on-going monitoring of model / tool performance. - Take initiatives and responsibility of end-to-end delivery of a stream of Model and Tool Validation and related Risk Management deliverables. - Write Model and Tool Review findings in validation documents that could be used for presentations both internally (model and tool developers, business unit managers, Audit, various global Committees) as well as externally (Regulators). - Verbally communicate results and debate issues, challenges and methodologies with internal audiences including senior management. - Represent MRM team in interactions with regulatory and audit agencies as and when required. - Follow financial markets & business trends on a frequent basis to enhance the quality of Model and Tool Validation and related Risk Management deliverables.