Institutional Risk Vice President

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management 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.

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The role will support the Institutional Risk function within Client Segment Risk by helping identify, assess, monitor, escalate, and advise on risks across Institutional Consulting Solutions, which include the Corporate Cash, Government Entity, Graystone and Retirement businesses   and related institutional client activities. The individual will provide risk advisory support to business partners, assist with the design and enhancement of control frameworks, support governance routines, and contribute to risk reporting and issue escalation.

As part of the role, you will also provide support to the Institutional Portfolio Monitoring team, including oversight of institutional client portfolios subject to Investment Policy Statements. This includes reviewing IPS guidelines, translating investment restrictions into monitoring rules, identifying portfolio variances, supporting escalation and remediation, and contributing to the continued strategic refinement of the IPM operating model, workflows, dashboards, reporting, and technology-enabled monitoring capabilities.

The role is intended to strengthen Institutional Risk coverage while ensuring the IPM team has additional support for portfolio monitoring, governance, advisory, and strategic enhancement activities.

Key Responsibilities

Institutional Risk Responsibilities

As part of the Institutional Risk team, the individual will:

• Develop a broad understanding of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s Institutional business, including key products, platforms, client segments, support infrastructure, high-risk processes, governance routines, and strategic initiatives.
• Provide risk advisory support to Institutional business partners, helping identify, assess, communicate, and escalate risks across products, platforms, processes, and client-related activities.
• Partner with business stakeholders, technology teams, risk partners, and control partners to analyze, design, implement, and enhance control frameworks across Institutional businesses.
• Support risk assessments related to new business initiatives, platform enhancements, technology changes, AI-related buildouts, and other strategic efforts by advising on governance considerations, control design, risk mitigation, implementation readiness, and ongoing monitoring.
• Support the IIS Platform BCU support model, including the development, tracking, and reporting of relevant metrics to assess risk indicators, control performance, operational effectiveness, and business readiness.
• Conduct account, platform, and process analysis to identify trends, anomalies, emerging risks, potential control gaps, and areas requiring further review or escalation.
• Provide data mining, reporting, and analytics support to enhance transparency, inform management decision-making, identify emerging risks, and support timely executive-level reporting.
• Support business partners in identifying, understanding, assessing, and self-disclosing risks, including issues that may require remediation, governance review, or escalation.
• Review remediation plans and help ensure action plans are appropriately designed, documented, tracked, and completed within target timelines.
• Assess risk incidents and support Lessons Learned reviews, including identification of root causes, control enhancements, stakeholder impacts, and follow-up actions.
• Support the development, execution, and maintenance of risk assessment processes, including applicable non-financial risk assessment activities.
• Assist with internal and external audits, exams, and related requests, including coordination of materials, responses, evidence gathering, issue tracking, and management updates.
• Support updates to policies, procedures, standards, supervisory processes, and related governance documentation.
• Serve as a governance and risk support resource for billing-related processes, including oversight of billing controls, issue management, reporting, and governance routines, as applicable.
• Provide support for strategic initiatives and special projects, including cross-functional efforts, transformation initiatives, business process enhancements, and time-sensitive institutional risk priorities.
• Manage multiple projects and deliverables simultaneously, including ad hoc, executive-level, and time-sensitive requests.

Institutional Portfolio Monitoring Support

The role will also provide support to the Institutional Portfolio Monitoring team by:

• Supporting the onboarding, oversight, and monitoring of institutional client portfolios subject to Investment Policy Statements.
• Reviewing IPS guidelines and translating written investment restrictions, asset allocation requirements, prohibited securities, concentration limits, liquidity requirements, and other portfolio parameters into mathematical, rules-based, or logic-based monitoring criteria.
• Helping monitor portfolios through applicable technology platforms, SaaS solutions, internal tools, dashboards, and systemic monitoring processes.
• Identifying, analyzing, and escalating portfolio variances to Portfolio Managers, supervisors, Field Risk Officers, business stakeholders, and appropriate risk partners for review, action, and remediation.
• Contributing technical and analytical expertise to build, refine, and maintain IPM workflows, dashboards, reporting tools, monitoring routines, and quality control processes.
• Assisting with the creation of executive-level reporting, trend analysis, issue summaries, risk metrics, and governance materials related to portfolio monitoring activity.
• Supporting the continued strategic refinement of the IPM team, including process design, workflow optimization, escalation protocols, technology enhancements, data quality improvements, reporting standardization, and operating model maturity.
• Providing advisory support to stakeholders regarding IPS interpretation, monitoring capabilities, portfolio variance themes, and potential risk considerations.
• Following written supervisory procedures and helping ensure monitoring activities align with applicable Firm policies, procedures, and governance expectations.
• Partnering with Institutional Consulting Solutions, Institutional Client Segment Risk, Legal, Field Risk Officers, vendors, Financial Advisors, Private Wealth Advisors, Portfolio Managers, Client Service Professionals, and senior leadership.
• Communicating complex portfolio, product, IPS, and risk concepts clearly to stakeholders at multiple levels of the Firm.

Reporting Structure

The role will be aligned to the Institutional Risk function while maintaining direct support responsibilities for the Institutional Portfolio Monitoring team.

The individual will work closely with:

• The Institutional Risk Manager for day-to-day institutional risk management, advisory, governance, control framework, audit, exam, policy, remediation, and strategic initiative responsibilities.
• The Institutional Portfolio Monitoring Risk manager for IPM-related responsibilities, including IPS monitoring, portfolio variance identification, escalation support, workflow enhancement, reporting, and strategic refinement of the IPM function.

This structure will help ensure the individual is fully integrated into the Institutional Risk organization while maintaining the knowledge, accountability, and connectivity needed to effectively support the IPM team.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong knowledge of financial products, investment strategies, asset classes, portfolio construction, and institutional client needs.
• Experience in financial services, institutional risk, wealth management, compliance, controls, portfolio monitoring, advisory, or related functions.
• Familiarity with SEC, FINRA, and Firm compliance policies, procedures, and supervisory expectations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, investigative, and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to identify risks, assess issues, determine appropriate escalation paths, and support remediation.
• Ability to provide practical, risk-based advisory support to business stakeholders and senior management.
• Strong understanding of control frameworks, governance routines, issue management, and risk reporting.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with evolving deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to explain complex investment, portfolio, IPS, risk, and control concepts clearly and concisely.
• Ability to build effective relationships with business stakeholders, risk partners, control partners, vendors, technology teams, and senior leadership.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Experience with SharePoint development, maintenance, workflow support, or dashboard management.
• Familiarity with Clearwater Analytics, portfolio monitoring technology, data analytics tools, or coding experience would be a plus.
• Knowledge of Investment Policy Statements and rules-based portfolio monitoring would be a plus.

Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; Finance, Economics, Business, or equivalent relevant experience preferred.
• Seven or more years of financial services experience preferred, including experience in risk management, institutional services, wealth management, compliance, controls, portfolio monitoring, investment advisory support, or related functions.
• Experience supporting Wealth Management, institutional services, branch or field risk, investment platforms, advisory programs, or portfolio monitoring would be beneficial.
• Experience with Investment Policy Statements, institutional portfolio oversight, portfolio restrictions, or rules-based monitoring is a plus.

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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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $120,000 and $170,000 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 is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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