Senior Digital Asset Advisory Compliance Officer

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Senior Digital Asset Advisory Compliance Officer in U.S. Bank Compliance to shape the Morgan Stanley U.S. Banks digital assets business by navigating emerging regulations, collaborating across legal and risk teams, and driving the development of a compliance management system that supports innovation and regulatory integrity.

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 an Executive Director level position within the U.S. Bank Non-Financial Risk Oversight team, which is responsible for advising and guiding bank management through product design, development and implementation in a manner that ensures regulatory alignment, mitigates risk through efficient controls, and maintains compliance through the execution of effective risk management and oversight programs that can respond to an evolving regulatory environment.

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.

• Serve as a senior compliance and operational risk coverage officer for the U.S. Banks digital asset business and compliance subject matter expert on digital assets more generally.
• Closely follow regulatory rule making and advise business lines on the developing U.S. regulatory environment for digital assets (e.g., GENIUS Act, CLARITY Act, etc.).
• Work with existing bank compliance and operational risk teams to develop and implement appropriate compliance and operational risk policies, procedures, monitoring, testing and training programs.
• Interact with the business lines within Morgan Stanley.
• Coordinate across divisions as well as the legal, compliance, and operational risk functional teams on digital asset initiatives and potential impacts.
• Assist with other traditional compliance activities relating to the digital assets business.

• Experience and strong interest in the developing U.S. digital assets industry.
• Experience documenting OCC permissibility and safety & soundness considerations related to digital assets.
• Experience with OCC digital asset letter (IL 1170/1183/1184) interpretations.
• Experience with custody control design under 12 CFR Part 9 and OCC Custody Handbook.
• Experience with escalation/reporting practices compatible with OCC Heightened Standards.
• Experience with cybersecurity/key management aligned to NIST 800 57/800 53 and ISO 27001.
• Experience with tokenized deposits/stablecoin reserves under IL 1172 (reserve deposits) and IL 1174 (use of blockchain/distributed ledgers for payments).
• Experience with consumer compliance (e.g. UDAAP, Reg E, Reg P, E SIGN) for retail wallet/payment features.
• Experience serving as a compliance / risk officer or lawyer (or comparable role) at a large OCC bank, law firm, Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP), or Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP).
• Bachelors' Degree from an accredited U.S. college or university.
• Strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills.
• Ability and interest in reading regulations and focusing on details.
• Ability to prioritize and work in a dynamic, deadline-focused environment.
• Compliance and operational risk management assessment skills: experienced in the process of assessing the compliance and operational risks associated with a business environment (including non-financial risk assessments, incident reporting, capital requirements, etc.)
• Results oriented: setting goals and priorities that maximize the use of resources available to consistently deliver quality results.
• At least 6 years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role.

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