Description
We are seeking a Vice President to join our Asia Liquidity Risk team in Hong Kong, providing independent liquidity risk coverage across multiple businesses and legal entities in the region.
The Liquidity Risk Department (LRD) is an independent second line of defense responsible for identifying, assessing, measuring, monitoring, reporting, and escalating liquidity risks arising from the Firm's activities.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a primary Liquidity Risk coverage officer for designated businesses, products, and legal entities across Asia
- Assess liquidity vulnerabilities under business-as-usual and stressed market conditions
- Independently review and challenge liquidity risk management decisions, stress testing methodologies, and assumptions
- Identify and monitor emerging and existing liquidity risks and enhance risk limits, Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), risk appetite metrics, and monitoring processes
- Oversee legal entity liquidity risk management, including stress testing, recovery planning, exposure monitoring, and escalation of material risk events
- Engage stakeholders across Business Units, Corporate Treasury, and control functions on business strategy, funding requirements, risk mitigation, and liquidity implications
- Evaluate liquidity implications of new products, business initiatives, large transactions, and changes in market or funding structure
- Prepare and present liquidity risk assessments, thematic reviews, and emerging risk analyses to senior management, governance committees, and risk oversight forums
- Escalate material liquidity risk concerns in a timely and effective manner
- Participate in regulatory examinations, internal audits, and risk reviews, and collaborate with global Liquidity Risk teams to promote consistent standards, methodologies, and governance practices
Requirements:
- Experience in liquidity or treasury risk, market risk, Treasury / asset-liability management, or related risk disciplines within financial services
- Strong understanding of financial markets, balance sheet dynamics, funding, and liquidity management concepts
- Solid understanding of financial products, including derivatives, financing transactions, and capital markets activities
- Knowledge of regulatory liquidity frameworks and stress testing principles applicable to global financial institutions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate complex issues and develop practical risk management solutions
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to articulate complex risk topics to senior stakeholders
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- High degree of accountability, intellectual curiosity, and attention to detail
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and data analysis tools
- Demonstrated interest in leveraging automation, data analytics, and AI tools to improve risk monitoring and workflow efficiency
- English language proficiency
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience
Benefits: At Morgan Stanley, you'll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.