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 is seeking an Executive Director, Risk/ Policy Mgmt in Baltimore, MD to analyze and develop risk policies and procedures, identify trends and areas of emerging risk, and implement process improvements. Handle risk control assessments, business continuity, and crisis management planning. Collaborate cross functionally with subject matter experts to enhance the Firm’s risk management framework, tools, and governance practices. Contribute to the design and execution of resilience strategies, and support internal and regulatory risk reporting requirements. Ensure operational stability and effective risk mitigation across key business platforms. Execute Crisis Management, Risk & Control Assessments, Control Design & Testing, and Process Optimization. Monitor and report on business metrics to identify patterns, trends, and areas where increased management attention is warranted to ensure timely completion of strategic objectives. Analyze and develop Operational Risk Policies, Procedures, Risk Management Tools, and Data Repositories, to continuously improve the Risk and Control Framework. Manage Technology and Business Stability Risks. Engage with subject matter experts and third parties to ensure resilience priorities are addressed and incorporated. Develop and promote expertise in Financial Products and Markets, Retail Brokerage, Investment Advisory programs, Banking Products, Capital Markets, and Key Regulation impacting Financial Services Industry. Telecommuting permitted up to 1 days per week.

What you’ll bring to the role:

-Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field of study.

-Requires seven (7) years of experience in the position offered or seven (7) years as a Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Senior Associate, Associate, Risk Management, Risk Consulting, or a closely related occupation.

-Requires seven (7) years of experience with the following skills:

• Operational Risk Frameworks and Risk identification methodologies;
• Control design and testing;
• Crisis Management and Business Continuity Planning;
• Process Optimization and Risk-Based Process Mapping;
• Business Resilience Strategies and Systems Risk Assessments;
• Data Analysis for Risk Trend Identification and Reporting;
• Risk and Control Assessment Methodologies;
• Risk Management tools and Repositories;
• financial products, markets, and regulatory expectations;
• Retail Brokerage and Investment Advisory programs;
• Cross-functional communication and stakeholder engagement in risk contexts; and
• Six Sigma process efficiency methodology.

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.

Salary range for the position: $164000 - $250000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 25 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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).