Investment Management – Fixed Income – Administrative Assistant to Emerging Markets Portfolio Manager

About This Role

Abu Dhabi The Emerging Markets Debt team is seeking a highly motivated, intellectually curious, and exceptionally organized candidate to provide high-level administrative support to a portfolio manager based in Abu Dhabi. The individual will work closely with portfolio managers, research associates, and analysts across the team. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in emerging markets, global events, and the investment research process. For an individual who excels in the core responsibilities of the role, there may, over time and subject to business needs, be opportunities for broader exposure to the team’s research activities. Such exposure may include supporting the preparation of research materials, maintaining contact and meeting databases, coordinating complex research travel, preparing regional news summaries, and assisting with macroeconomic, political, and country-level background analysis. The role offers close proximity to the investment process and significant exposure to the team’s research process, including interactions with government officials, central bankers, ministries of finance, and representatives of multilateral institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management Description Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), together with its investment advisory affiliates, has about $1.4 trillion in assets under management or supervision. With 1,343 investment professionals worldwide, and 54 offices in 25 countries, Morgan Stanley Investment Management is able to provide in-depth local knowledge and expertise while channelling the strength of our global presence and resources. To support the delivery of tailored, value-added investment solutions to clients our investment teams are organized by capability: Solutions & Multi-Asset, Real Assets, Active Fundamental Equity, Private Credit & Equity, Global Fixed Income, and Global Liquidity. Morgan Stanley Investment Management strives to provide outstanding long-term investment performance, service and a comprehensive suite of investment management solutions to a diverse client base, which includes governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide

Emerging Markets Team Description The Emerging Markets Debt team manages approximately $35 billion across a range of investment strategies. The team analyses the macroeconomic and political environments of more than one hundred countries and translates these fundamental views into investment ideas. Our research process leverages traditional news and crowd-sourced media, economic data releases, relationships with economists and political analysts, and on the ground travel to meet with policy makers and in-country experts. We exploit both long and short investment opportunities and use a variety of sovereign bonds, currencies, equities, and other cash and derivative instruments in order to execute our strategies. Our team is made up of highly motivated professionals with diverse backgrounds who complement our global perspective.

Basic Purpose To provide in-office administrative support to a Managing Director Portfolio Manager on the Emerging markets Debt Team. Over time, exceptional performance in the core responsibilities of the role may create opportunities for broader exposure to research-related work, subject to business needs and the discretion of the investment team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide proactive, detail-oriented administrative and business support to a Portfolio Manager, including - but are not limited to- complex calendar management, travel coordination, meeting scheduling, preparation of itineraries and agendas, and expense processing.
• Support selected research-related tasks at the discretion of the team and subject to business priorities.
• Demonstrate flexibility, responsiveness, and the ability to support a global investment team across time zones.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record.
• Highly motivated, intellectually curious, and genuinely interested in emerging markets and the investment research process.
• Anticipates needs, exercises sound judgment, identifies process improvements, solves problems independently, operates with a high degree of ownership
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities, variable hours, and evolving team needs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; additional language capability is a plus.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple competing priorities under tight deadlines.
• Must be able to work both independently and as a team and adapt to various needs of the Fixed Income Group.
• Comfortable interacting professionally and confidently with senior external stakeholders, including government officials, policymakers, and representatives of international financial institutions.
• Must maintain strict confidentiality.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word. Familiarity with programming or automation and LLM tools is highly advantageous.

What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. 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. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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