Financial Crimes Sanctions Screening Coverage Director (AVP)

Were seeking someone to join our team as a Director Sanctions Screening Initiatives & Optimization in Global Financial Crimes to lead business analysis and project delivery for screening transformation optimization and strategic initiatives across reference data and transaction screening programs.

In the Legal & Compliance division we assist the Firm in achieving its business objectives by facilitating and overseeing the Firms management of legal regulatory and franchise risk. This is a Director level position within the Global Financial Crimes Sanctions Screening Controls team which is responsible for the design implementation and ongoing governance of the Firms sanctions screening control framework across reference data and transaction activity.

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.

What youll do in the role:

• Lead business analysis and project management support for cross-program transformation initiatives spanning reference data and transaction screening.
• Elicit document and manage business requirements for screening enhancements translating regulatory expectations and control standards into user stories acceptance criteria and process documentation.
• Develop and maintain project plans timelines RAID logs and implementation records tracking milestones risks dependencies and remediation actions through closure.
• Partner with Compliance Technology Operations and business stakeholders to design solutions that are operationally executable and supported by appropriate runbooks SLAs and readiness artifacts.
• Support testing and validation activities including test strategy UAT coordination post-deployment verification and documentation of pre- and post-implementation outcomes.
• Drive optimization workstreams involving threshold calibration fuzzy logic tuning suppression rules pre-screening enhancements and related screening effectiveness initiatives.
• Perform data analysis and develop management information to identify tuning opportunities quantify operational impact and support governance decisions on screening changes.
• Support new product assessments issue remediation regulatory and internal audit responses and data governance activities by producing organized audit-ready documentation and control evidence.

What youll bring to the role:

• Bachelors degree in Business Finance Economics Computer Science Data/Analytics or a related discipline with 5-8 years of experience in business analysis project management sanctions compliance AML/financial crime risk or compliance controls within a regulated financial institutions.
• Strong business analysis requirements management and process design skills including experience developing functional specifications user stories acceptance criteria and process maps.
• Demonstrated project delivery capability with the ability to manage timelines dependencies stakeholder expectations and multiple concurrent workstreams in a matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical skills including advanced Excel and preferably SQL and/or Python with experience analyzing screening data producing management information and supporting data quality or optimization assessments.
• Working knowledge of sanctions screening frameworks relevant regulations and transaction screening data including familiarity with SWIFT MT/MX messaging standards.
• Experience with screening platforms or related technologies and ideally control tuning model governance UAT and implementation validation activities.
• Working knowledge of OFAC and global sanctions regulations and their application to screening frameworks including familiarity with model risk management practices and screening model governance concepts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce governance materials audit-ready documentation and clear deliverables for cross-functional stakeholders; professional certifications such as CAMS CFCS or CFE are a plus.
• Typically 5 years relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role

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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