Company Profile:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

In Wealth Management, we help people, businesses and institutions build, preserve, and manage wealth so they can pursue their financial goals.

What you’ll do in the role:

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC seeks an Assistant Vice President, Risk Management in New York, NY

to assist in the development and execution of the Wealth Management Cyber Resilience Framework, aligning with FFIEC, FINRA, and internal Firm resilience strategies. Support the Key Business Services (KBS) program by collaborating with Firm Resilience teams to ensure critical services, systems, and assets are being continuously identified, mapped, and tested. Conduct detailed dependency mapping across people, processes, technology, and third parties to identify operational risks and ensure resilient support for critical business functions. Design and implement technical and procedural failover/failback strategies to ensure seamless continuity of high-priority systems during disruption scenarios. Maintain annual business continuity testing and scenario-based cyber resilience exercises, while analyzing results, communicating findings, and driving remediation efforts. Track and report KPIs/KRIs, while monitoring regulatory developments and promoting a continuous improvement culture aligned with the firm’s operational resilience objectives. Telecommuting permitted up to 1 days per week.

What you’ll bring to the role:

-Requires a Master’s in Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

-Requires two (2) years of experience in the position offered or two (2) years as a Data Office, Associate, Information Security Senior Consultant, or a related occupation

-Requires two (2) years of experience with the following skills:

• Operational Risk Frameworks and Risk identification methodologies;
• Security Architecture & Risk control design;
• Cybersecurity Governance & Risk Management (GRC);
• Implementing governmental risk policies, standards, regulatory and audit compliance requirements issued by FINRA, FFIEC, and SEC;
• Vendor Risk & Third-Party Continuity Assessments;
• Cyber Resilience Strategies and Systems Risk Assessments;
• Data Analysis for Risk Trend Identification and Reporting;
• Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) Methodologies;
• Risk Management tools and Repositories including Fusion RM, Everbridge, Archer GRC, IBM OpenPages, Process Unity (iShield);
• Financial products, markets, and regulatory expectations;
• and Cross-functional communication and stakeholder engagement in risk contexts.

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.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $136,000 and $140,000 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.

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).