Digital Assets & Crypto Fraud Risk | Program Manager | Executive Director

Digital Assets & Crypto Fraud Risk Program Manager Executive Director

Role Overview:

The Executive Director Digital Assets & Crypto Fraud Risk Program Management is a senior leadership role within Morgan Stanleys Global Fraud organization responsible for defining governing and overseeing the firmwide fraud risk framework for digital assets including cryptocurrencies tokenized assets blockchain based payment rails wallets and related third party ecosystems.

This role serves as the enterprise fraud risk owner for digital assets with accountability for strategy governance risk assessment control design and program management across all Morgan Stanley business units and legal entities engaging in or enabling digital asset activity.

The role partners closely with senior leaders across Wealth Management Investment Management Institutional Securities Group Risk Technology Cybersecurity Operations Legal Compliance and Global Financial Crime ensuring fraud risk is proactively identified mitigated and governed throughout the digital asset product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise fraud risk strategy for digital assets aligned with Morgan Stanleys overall fraud risk framework and risk appetite.

• Identify and assess emerging fraud typologies related to crypto and blockchain activity including account takeover wallet compromise social engineering smart contract exploitation mule activity insider misuse and limited recovery risk scenarios.

• Translate fraud risk insights into firmwide standards control expectations and strategic priorities across all businesses.

• Lead fraud risk assessments for new and existing digital asset products platforms and capabilities including custody trading transfers tokenization and third party integrations.

• Define and oversee preventive and detective fraud controls including authentication transaction monitoring limits interdiction mechanisms and post event remediation.

• Ensure fraud risk is embedded in new product approval vendor onboarding and technology change management processes.

• Establish ongoing fraud risk monitoring metrics and loss analysis for digital asset activity.

• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned incident reviews and control enhancements.

• Provide senior management and committee reporting on digital asset fraud risk posture incidents control effectiveness and emerging threats.

• Partner with Technology and Cybersecurity to ensure fraud controls are scalable resilient and aligned with threat evolution.

• Coordinate with Legal Compliance and Financial Crimes teams to ensure regulatory expectations and enforcement trends are incorporated into fraud risk decisions.

• Act as a trusted senior advisor to business heads and control partners on digital asset fraud risk control trade offs and client protection considerations.

• Mentor and develop senior fraud leaders and subject matter experts in digital asset risk. Qualifications & Experience:

Required

• 10 years of experience in fraud risk management program management financial crime operational risk cybersecurity risk or related control functions within a global financial institution.

• Demonstrated leadership in enterprise level risk governance and complex cross business environments.

• Deep understanding of fraud risk concepts control design and first line / second line accountability models.

• Proven ability to engage credibly with senior executives regulators auditors and control partners.

• Experience leading risk oversight for digital platforms emerging technologies or novel financial products.

• Clear communicator capable of translating technical risk into executive level insights.

Preferred

• Direct experience with digital assets crypto markets blockchain based products or tokenized financial instruments.

• Familiarity with third party risk vendor ecosystems and technology enabled fraud typologies.

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 thats differentiated and weve 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 - 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 $160000.00 and $250000.00 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 Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion where individuals are hired developed and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate bringing a variety of backgrounds talents perspectives and experiences.

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