We are seeking someone to join our team as a Global Financial Crimes (GFC) Change Management Professional.
In the Legal & Compliance division, we assist the Firm in achieving its business objectives by facilitating and overseeing the Firm's management of legal, regulatory and franchise risk. This is a Director level position within the Change Management Team, where you will support the New Product Approval (NPA) Team in assessing and mitigating financial crime risks associated with new business initiatives. The team enables innovation through sound governance, control application, and alignment with regulatory expectations and firm policies.
- Serve as a central contact for stakeholders, ensuring transparency throughout the NPA process
- Provide oversight across the change lifecycle for New Products
- Partner with key stakeholders to ensure consistent and timely review of initiatives
- Implement risk-based control frameworks
- Provide execution oversight and facilitate post implementation reviews
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
Global Financial Crimes (GFC) coordinates day-to-day implementation of the Firm's enterprise-wide financial crime prevention efforts. GFC includes several legal and compliance disciplines and has responsibility for governance, oversight and execution of the Firm's Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Economic Sanctions, Anti-Corruption and Government and Political Activities Compliance programs. GFC also develops and/or assists in the development of appropriate policies and procedures, including those designed to assist the business units to know their clients and conduct appropriate due diligence and to prevent, detect and report potentially suspicious activity.
- Lead execution of financial crimes risk assessments for new product proposals, ensuring alignment with Firm policy and regulatory expectations. Serve as a key point of contact for GFC within the NPA lifecycle.
- Collaborate with technology and cross-functional teams to document and communicate control requirements. Support implementation of controls into systems and processes.
- Collaborate with technology and cross-functional teams to ensure financial crimes control requirements are understood and implemented.
- Lead cross-functional working sessions and coordinate with stakeholders to assess control feasibility and implementation readiness.
- Maintain and apply governance frameworks and documentation standards.
- Lead working sessions with stakeholders to review project status, track issues, and ensure timely financial crimes assessments.
- Own execution of assigned financial crimes initiatives, including post-implementation reviews and process improvements.
- Prepare reporting materials for senior management and present updates on program status and risks as needed.
What you'll bring to the role:
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or certification (e.g., ACAMS) preferred.
- 5-8 years of experience in financial crimes compliance, AML, risk management, or product governance.
- Strong understanding of financial crimes risks including AML, sanctions, KYC/EDD, anti-corruption, and anti-tax evasion.
- Demonstrated ownership mindset with strong judgement, independence, and ability to manage complex and competing priorities under tight deadlines.
- Experience leading execution of product development, business expansion, or governance initiatives.
- Ability to translate regulatory, business, and technical requirements into actionable controls.
- Strong analytical skills to identify and address control gaps and experience leading initiatives in Agile environments; PMP or equivalent training is a plus.
- Experience conducting post-implementation reviews and driving process improvements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of reports and presentations.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across functions and geographies.
- Ability to attend after-hours conference calls and meetings
Skills Desired:
- Familiarity with financial crimes tools, data models, or workflow systems used for AML programs, along with advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Jira for managing reporting and documentation.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and solve problems with minimal supervision
What you can expect from Morgan Stanley:
We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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.
Where You'll be Working
This role will require in office attendance 3 days/week. Two of those days will be Anchor Days where you will be in the office with your teammates to learn, grow, and collaborate in person.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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-officesinto your browser.
Salary range for the position: $70000 - $125000 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 X 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.
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