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Programme
Internship
Location
Paris
Duration
Approximately six months
About the role
This six-month Paris internship places you in Morgan Stanley’s IED Business Control Unit Non-Financial Risk team within Sales & Trading. You will support first-line operational, conduct, fraud, regulatory, technology, and reputational risk management through controls, monitoring, regulatory initiatives, and business continuity projects.
Responsibilities
- Support operational risk activities, including Risk and Control Self-Assessments, risk metrics, monitoring, and incident reporting.
- Help establish controls, processes, and technology for fraud-risk supervision, including trade surveillance and employee monitoring.
- Support conduct-risk controls, incident identification, escalation, and remediation for employees and contingent workers.
- Help establish and test Business Continuity Plans, including Business Impact Analyses, for IED businesses.
- Facilitate New Product Approval processes and support regulatory, non-regulatory, and electronic trading risk initiatives.
- Review information-security, entitlement, segregation-of-duties, supervisory, and pre-trade-limit controls; support regulatory implementation.
Additional Responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate documentation for a variety of derivative products.
- Provide general coverage for business risk questions, issues, and initiatives.
- Support supervisors with controls addressing employee trading, mandatory vacation adherence, market conduct, compliance, and fraud.
- Work on projects designed to broaden understanding and improve the desk’s productivity and efficiency.
Placement and Training
- The approximately six-month program is based in Morgan Stanley’s Paris office, the firm’s European Union hub.
- You will be assigned to the IED Business Control Unit Non-Financial Risk desk.
- Receive on-the-job training while working alongside experienced professionals on varied projects.
Application
- Recruitment is conducted on a rolling basis, so applications are encouraged as soon as possible.
- Submit only a CV and covering letter, both written in English.
- Application response times may vary due to high application volumes.