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.

The Latin America Credit team is comprised of 10 people based in Mexico, New York, and Sao Paulo. The position covers credit risk management in Latin America, including loan and derivative products with primary focus on Brazil. The role is located in Sao Paulo in a multi-disciplinary team with extensive interaction with Businesses Units, senior management, and other control groups.

Primary Responsibilities: Responsibilities will vary depending on workflows and typically will include: - Fundamental Research & Credit Analysis: Assist in the evaluation of counterparty credit quality to assign probability of default and recovery ratings and set risk limits. Spread financial statements, calculate relevant financial metrics, and analyze results/draw conclusions on financial performance and trends. - Backlog Management and Risk monitoring: Maintain and prepare credit reviews of assigned portfolio current. Monitor portfolio's credit performance, news, developments, and rating actions and recommend credit actions. - Support Trade Evaluation & Approval: Assist in responding to trader requests to approve derivative transactions and open trading accounts with new counterparties. Assist with exposure analysis, evaluation of legal and documentation requirements, and the negotiation of credit terms. Maintain record keeping of approvals. - Support Loan Evaluation & Approval: Assist in the evaluation of banking requests for lending to regional corporates and financial institutions. Evaluation includes fundamental credit analysis and financial modeling, preparing credit committee presentation and presenting case to internal approvers and capital commitment committee. - Sector Analysis: Evaluate industry trends and recommend action plans to manage sector and individual name exposure based on the outlook.

• Undergraduate degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or Economics. Advanced degrees and/or CFA certification are not required but considered a plus.
• 3-5 years of credit-related experience in financial services.
• Familiarity with capital markets products, including securities, OTC derivatives, secured financing transactions and loans.
• Experience with financial modeling highly desired
• Fluency or proficiency in English and Portuguese; Spanish as plus
• Proactive and detail-oriented with strong collaboration, problem solving, and oral/written communication and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications

Job: *Credit Risk

Title: Associate - LATAM - Credit Risk

Location: Brazil-São Paulo-Sao Paulo

Requisition ID: 3251204