L Financial Crimes Risk, Data Analytics and Reporting Analyst

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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 41 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

The Financial Crimes Risk (“FCR”) department is embedded within the Firm’s business line. It is responsible for identifying, assessing, and escalating potential money laundering and reputational risk issues associated with higher risk client types. The FCR department is considered the first line of defense and supports the onboarding, enhanced due diligence, and negative news processes for Morgan Stanley.

Position Summary

Our key priority is to design and build Wealth Management, Bank, and Investment Management Risk’s ability to aggregate, analyze and report on relevant risk factors within the FCR segment across these Morgan Stanley businesses.

The Data, Analytics and Reporting Team (“DART”) within FCR is seeking a candidate who will provide analytical and reporting automation support for the financial crimes program, regulatory thematic updates, and transformation initiatives across the first line financial crimes processes. In addition to working within FCR, the employee will also collaborate with the Business, IT, Legal and Compliance, and Bank and Field Management.



Key Responsibilities

Our key priority is to design and build the first line Financial Crimes Risk supervisory framework and control structures. This includes the ability to aggregate, analyze and report on key risk factors in the Financial Crimes space across WM, Bank, and Investment Management businesses, particularly with respect to heightened risk client types and international wealth businesses and compliance with relevant policies and procedures when servicing clients.

The ideal candidate will have experience in managing complex strategic projects, related to risk oversight in financial crimes, have expertise in data management and reporting as well as good strategic thinking and communication skills to produce effective monitoring of existing and emerging risks and ultimately effect change in the business’ risk management practices.

Responsibilities

The candidate will be responsible for collecting, processing, and analyzing data from various sources. The employee will be expected to work independently as well as part of a team to execute the full cycle of quantitative analysis. This includes sourcing raw data, quality checking the data, transforming data as necessary and using data to draw sound conclusions and help drive risk policies.

This role requires familiarity with datasets larger than four million records and to build automated and scalable tools for reporting and analysis. The employee will take initiative and responsibility to drive tasks forward. In addition to data management, the ability to reach conclusions quickly and consistently will be critical to being successful in this role. The candidate’s primary responsibilities will include:

• Support development of control structure based on ongoing analysis and relevant risks related to the first line financial crimes risk program, including regulatory and transformation initiatives
• Through data-driven analyses, liaise with functional area representatives from FCR and its stakeholders to identify and assess…