IED - Risk Associate Developer Job Details

Position Description
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm and a market leader in investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. With more than 1,200 offices in 42 countries, the people of Morgan Stanley are dedicated to providing our clients the finest thinking, products and services to help them achieve even the most challenging goals.
We are looking for a

Java / OO Developer
For our Budapest Office
The position is for an application developer in the Reconciliations team that develops enhances and maintains front and back end software that reconciles the banks internal systems. The role is primarily within the Equity Risk space where we have an in-house product that reconciles our traders’ risk positions to the firm’s books and records. This is a key firm function that ensures that we are trading from correct opening positions and provides confidence in our overall Value at risk (VAR) calculations. The team is part of a wider area that is responsible for software performing other reconciliations including both internal and external sources.
The responsibilities comprise of design, development, testing and deployment of back-end and front end software across the various reconciliation applications that we support.
We are looking for a smart and analytically minded developer who has experience in OO language development (preferably Java) but who is also happy to work across technologies. The successful candidate will be involved in the ongoing development and enhancement of the Equity Risk Reconciliation (ERRec) system which will involve moving between new Java projects, enhancement of existing perl scripts and working with the Sybase database logic. The team also supports a C# GUI so it is possible that there will be future work in .net.
The team is closely aligned to our Equtity Cash and Derivatives clients and developers are often involved in complex business analysis across the varied product offerings from the business unit. An existing knowledge of equity / financial products would be an advantage but where this is not the case the successful candidate should have a keen interest to learn.

Skills Required
* 3+ years hands on experience of core Java
* 2/3+ years RDBMS/SQL experience
* 3+ years Linux/Unix/ksh
* OO and Relational Modeling skills
* Excellent analytical ability
* Distributed systems architecture
* Strong collaboration and communication skills

Skills Desired
* Perl experience.
* Knowledge of .Net C# will be an advantage
* Financial / Banking Systems experience