Wealth Management Operational Resilience Lead (Hybrid)

We’re seeking someone to join our team as a Wealth Management Operational Resilience Lead in Firm Resilience. As a member of our team, you will be in a unique position to interact with people and teams globally across different businesses and functions, working on topics that have a direct impact on the operational stability of the Firm.

The Firm Resilience Function owns the identification and resilience for the Firm's key business services and coordinates operational resilience efforts across Firm. Firm Resilience works with Legal and Compliance to interpret regulatory guidance on operational resilience and is responsible for advising Business Units on standards and implementation.

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Lead Risk & Resiliency Management position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks to ensure operational continuity and resilience in the face of potential threats or disruptions that could impact the organization, plus management of ongoing incidents.

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.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on…

What You’ll Do In The Role

• Ensuring that required resilience activities are appropriately owned by the business and embedded into their business planning and management processes.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of the Business Service Resilience Framework, including policies, procedures, and program plans.
• Provide support with Wealth Management regulatory operational resilience exams.
• Supporting Wealth Management business areas in assessing potential operational vulnerabilities by identifying and documenting Key Business Services, associated end-to-end processes and underlying assets that support them.
• Collaborating with departments across the Firm, such as Operational Risk, Operations and Technology, to implement the Business Service Resilience Framework (e.g., development of severe but plausible scenarios that will be tested to measure resilience of the Firm's Key Business Services).
• Assisting the business to identify and remediate gaps in their resilience capabilities and proactively implement innovative solutions to mitigate resilience risks.
• Ensuring resilience has appropriate governance and senior management oversight, including leading and supporting resilience specific governance fora, and contributing to fora owned by Firm Resilience partners (e.g., Operational Risk and Business Units).
• Identifying or supporting the development of solutions for strategic changes required for resilience and opportunities for efficiencies across related programs.
• Timely and accurate reporting of resilience management information.
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• 7+ years of experience in banking, preferably front office Wealth Management operations.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to work successfully across multiple priorities and conflicting deadlines while producing quality results and deliverables.
• Experience interacting with and supporting US banking regulatory exams.
• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to identify and assess risks and issues through critical thinking while developing possible solutions.
• Quick learner with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with evolving regulatory and business requirements.
• Experience managing projects across multiple stakeholder groups with ability to maintain a focus on delivering tangible results.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work and collaborate with team members, stakeholders and partners across all levels of the organization.
• We especially value candidates who offer innovative ideas and help increase the efficiency of our business.
  
  

At Morgan Stanley Montreal, we support the Firm’s global businesses and infrastructure with cutting edge technology and innovation. The multi-faceted and highly technical Montreal team plays a critical role in building and maintaining our leading technology platform, including electronic trading, algorithm trading, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI/ML. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in the Montreal community since 2008 and is considered a leading employer among the area’s highly skilled technology talent. There’s ample opportunity to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work.

All our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.

Knowledge of French and English is required.

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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.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.