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Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments—Institutional Securities, Wealth Management (WM), and Asset Management. Morgan Stanley provides comprehensive financial advice and services to its clients including brokerage, investment advisory, financial and wealth planning, credit and lending, deposits and cash management, annuities, insurance, retirement, and trust services. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success.  Together, we share a common set of values rooted in doing the right thing, putting clients first, leading with exceptional ideas and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.  Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, achieve, and grow. 

The First Line Financial Crime Program Design Office is responsible for the oversight, design, implementation, and maintenance of all first line of defense financial crimes activities including defining risk mitigant strategies, adherence to policy and setting risk tolerance and expectations as well as championing the customer experience.

The Architecture Implementation & Independent Testing group is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and testing consolidated Business requirements for the Program Design Office by providing governance and oversight, executing testing; and conducting horizontal reviews / regression.

The team is responsible for ensuring the design adequacy and operational effectiveness of the Firm’s financial crimes policies, procedures, processes, and controls is robust and timely enhanced. In addition, executing targeted reviews in the areas of high and emerging financial crimes risk and related reviews to evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of business processes or activities and mitigating controls.  

In this role, you will;

·        Work closely to support stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document detailed system requirements for new features and enhancements.

o   Assist in the development of process maps and detailed documentation to capture current and future state business processes, ensuring alignment with system capabilities.

o   Assist in the design and develop UAT strategies, test plans, and test cases in collaboration with business users to validate that systems meet business requirements.

o   Coordinate and execute UAT activities, ensuring thorough testing of system functionality, and tracking defects and issues to resolution.

o   Log, track, and manage defects found during UAT, working closely with development teams to prioritize and resolve issues promptly.

o   Report metrics and communicate results to senior management and stakeholders.

o   Assist in preparing ongoing and ad hoc reporting for senior management.

·        Assist in pre/post go-live production support including;

o   Providing training and support to end-users on new systems or features, ensuring a smooth transition and high adoption rates.

o   Conduct post-implementation reviews to ensure that systems are functioning as expected and to identify any areas for improvement including supporting FA’s and execution teams on production related issues.

Ability to:

• Take initiative, analyze, summarize, and communicate effectively including identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
• Investigate, identify issues, impacts and trends as a result of testing to propose comprehensive solutions.
• Multitask effectively and action matters promptly.
• Work independently and in a team environment with a high volume, fast paced environment.

Skills:

• Solid understanding of UAT processes, test case design, and defect management, with experience in executing and managing UAT phases.
• Ability to analyze complex systems and processes, identifying potential issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, including developers, QA testers, and business users,
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot issues and drive them to resolution in a timely manner.

Similar Role considerations:

• Experience in QC/QA functions performing an end-to-end Quality Control KYC review of new onboarding and periodic review files.
• Experience with determining comprehensive sampling across populations; products/geographies, in accordance with procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of risk management, compliance, control, and/or audit experience in a Bank or financial services institute with a demonstrated record of success and/or growth.
• Have an Associates or undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, or other related fields.
• Experience in project management or coordination, particularly in business requirements and managing testing phases and ensuring timely delivery of system changes (or other similar skills and role experiences)

Additional Skills Desired:

• Certified as an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist by ACAMS or equivalent AML certification/license is a plus.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $80,000 and $135,000 per year at the commencement of employment.  However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary  bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.