Global Financial Crimes - Transaction Monitoring and Strategy Vice President

We are seeking someone to join our team as a Coverage Assessment Officer in Global Financial Crimes - Strategy to serve as a Risk and Controls Assessment (RCA) lead.

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 Vice President level position within the GFC Strategy Team. This individual will be responsible for owning and continuously enhancing the end-to-end RCA process related to AML Red Flags, transaction monitoring scenarios, and risk factor governance.

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.

What you'll do in the role:

- Manage and provide oversight for the RCA lifecycle, including annual AML Red Flags assessments, product/service risk analyses, inherent and residual risk evaluations, and control effectiveness ratings.
- Define and support implementation of governance structures for transaction monitoring scenarios and risk factors, including ownership, review cycles, and formal escalation protocols.
- Lead the continuous improvement of the RCA methodology through standardization, integration of technology, and use of advanced analytics.
- Support qualitative and quantitative reviews of transaction monitoring scenarios, including gap analysis at the product/service level.
- Design and implement a formal mechanism for evaluating effectiveness of scenarios, including review of suspicious activity from non-alerted sources.
- Maintain a comprehensive controls framework with structured processes for identifying and addressing control gaps.
- Collaborate with GFC Advisory, Business Units, Technology, and other control partners to execute RCA activities and support remediation plans.
- Support the use of automation, data analytics, and technology solutions to enhance risk assessments.

What you'll bring to the role:

- 8+ years of experience in AML, risk management, or control functions within a large financial institution.
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or professional certifications (e.g., CAMS, CISA) preferred.
- Proven experience contributing to complex AML control and assessment initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of AML and sanctions risks, transaction monitoring frameworks, and risk/control taxonomies.
- Familiarity with AML detection platforms such as Actimize, SAS, Oracle, etc.
- Experience with advanced analytics or machine learning is a plus.
- Effective communicator with ability to engage senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Resilient, solutions-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement.

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:

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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