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WM Risk Manager
| Company | Morgan Stanley |
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| Location | White Plains, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $150000 – $250000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Understanding of the Wealth Management business and operations
- Skill at designing supervision controls
- Familiarity with various investment products, their trading, and applications
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to reach risk-based conclusions quickly and consistently
Responsibilities
- Primary ownership of the teams Trade Supervision control framework and its implementation
- Partnership with stakeholders and leadership across the firm for consensus in control design, maintenance, and implementation
- Governance activities and presentations related to supervisory control design, development, maintenance, and ongoing enhancements
- Support for the testing and approval of supervisory control development work
- Control framework incident identification, investigation, and response
- Coordination of audit, regulatory, and ad-hoc inquiry responses for the Portfolio Risk team
- Ad-hoc and ongoing reporting, metrics, and analysis related to the supervisory control framework
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant work experience
- A working knowledge of financial instruments, securities trading, and financial risk management concepts
- Familiarity with rules and regulations applicable to wealth management, securities trading, and investment advisory businesses
- Able to quickly and effectively digest and convey complex processes and subject matter across interdisciplinary audiences of various levels
- Able to drive consensus across business units of multidisciplinary teams with competing priorities
- Able to prioritize and exercise sound judgement in fast paced and rapidly evolving environments with ever changing and competing priorities
- Team player with a strong work ethic, flexibility, and a high level of maturity and discretion in handling sensitive subject matter
- Must be self-motivated and able to drive tasks forward independently with minimal supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Detail oriented with good organizational and project management skills
- Knowledge of Tableau, SQL, and/or Python preferred but not required
- Strong familiarity with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
