Assistant Vice President, Project Manager - Business Transformation Services

New York City, NY - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 85000 - 140000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking securities investment management and wealth management services. The Firms employees serve clients worldwide including corporations governments and individuals from more than 1200 offices in 43 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 Business Transformation Services (BTS) team sits within Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and aims to establish a consistent scalable and repeatable model to provide advisory and delivery support for programs within the Division as well as across the Firm. BTS supports initiatives with a focus on Strategic Program Delivery Mergers / Divestitures / Integration Organizational Change and Readiness and Regulatory Compliance. The team partners with individual Wealth Management business lines Legal/Risk/Compliance and senior Firm leadership to drive initiatives to completion.

This contributor will provide support and work with project teams to budil out a projects governance reporting and tracking and overall execution model from initiation to scale. The candidate will be expected to think analytically and critically be detail oriented and client centric.

Key responsibilities include:

Working with all functional disciplines impacted by the project to ensure end to end planning is comprehensive and results in a project plan that will achieve stated goals of the initiative
Conduct analysis on program dependencies progress through the various phases to inform timelines execution and business strategy.
Ensure comprehensive documentation of requirements assumptions changes in scope etc. associated with project and establish an audit trail to demonstrate these activities have been addressed
Provide mechanisms to capture & monitor remediation of any potential addition enable appropriate escalation of any item that may impact timely delivery or cause a change to the agreed scope of project
Ensure effective communication and reporting to functional teams manager stakeholders and senior leadership. Develop program dashboards that articulate project status and timeline
Support key program leads and resources in executing key deliverables
Independently identify opportunities to drive project/ programs forward
Maintain strong partnerships with business and technology teams to drive successful project execution

Qualifications:

BS/BA degree required. Advanced degrees a plus.
A minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience in project management product development business management or management consulting in the financial services industry ideally Wealth Management
Ability to quickly turn around high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
Ability to drive delivery/execution of a wide range of tasks and initiatives
Ability to work independently proactively and possess a strong sense of accountability / ownership
Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams to meet delivery timelines
Ability to highlight key risks and issues that may impact the project / program health and manage the risk to closure
Strong written and verbal communications skills ability to interact at all levels of the organization and tailor messages appropriately
Strong presentation skills including ability to synthesize large amounts of data and information to create polished PowerPoint presentations for various levels of management
Independent self-starter who can manage multiple activities to aggressive deadlines
Eagerness to learn the business and understand detailed requirements
Organizational skills and ability to organize information in a meaningful way
Experience managing one or various workstreams
High attention to detail; follows through to ensure accuracy of materials
Highly skilled in Excel PowerPoint Word Project Visio SharePoint and JIRA

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 - arent just beliefs they guide the decisions we make every day to do whats best for our clients communities and more than 80000 employees in 1200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley youll 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. Theres also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $85000 and $140000 per year at the commencement of employment. However base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package which depending on the position may also include commission earnings incentive compensation discretionary bonuses other short and long-term incentive packages and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanleys goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race color religion creed age sex sex stereotype gender gender identity or expression transgender sexual orientation national origin citizenship disability marital and civil partnership/union status pregnancy veteran or military service status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

Required Experience: