Vice President, Risk Framework, Governance and Regulatory Engagement Lead

Were seeking someone to join our team as a Risk Framework Governance and Regulatory Engagement Lead to define and strengthen the third-party risk management framework governance standards policy alignment and regulatory-ready execution across the third-party lifecycle.

In the Corporate Services division we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business.

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:
- Own and continuously improve the third-party risk management framework including risk tiering materiality applicability criteria inherent and residual risk methodology due diligence standards continuous monitoring expectations control requirements and emerging risk coverage.
- Design right-sized controls for operational resilience critical services and other emerging third-party risk areas ensuring controls are proportionate explainable and aligned to regulatory expectations.
- Strengthen governance through clear decision rights committee routines escalation protocols issue management expectations policy and procedure alignment regulatory response coordination and senior management reporting.
- Use AI-enabled analytics and automation to identify risk patterns supplier risk signals policy gaps control inconsistencies duplicate requirements manual process friction and opportunities to simplify or right-size due diligence requirements.
- Partner with platform data reporting analytics technology and operations teams to embed methodology governance requirements controls and escalation rules into automated workflows dashboards reporting packs and decision support tools.
- Oversee training procedures job aids and knowledge materials to ensure they remain aligned to policy methodology governance decisions platform changes and regulatory expectations.

What youll bring to the role:
- 12 years of experience driving strategic programs regulatory and governance initiatives operational transformation executive stakeholder engagement and enterprise-wide project delivery.

- Strong understanding of third-party risk management outsourcing and non-outsourcing risk due diligence continuous monitoring control design operational resilience critical services emerging risk and regulatory expectations.

- Experience designing implementing or improving risk frameworks governance routines policy requirements procedure standards issue escalation models and senior management reporting processes.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI analytics automation and workflow tools to improve risk identification process efficiency assessment consistency stakeholder experience and management insight.
- Ability to translate regulatory expectations and risk requirements into practical controls procedures training content platform requirements and operational decision rules.
- Strong executive communication and influencing skills including the ability to create governance-ready materials explain complex risk concepts clearly and drive adoption across regions business units control partners and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity simplify complex requirements and balance regulatory expectations with practical execution for business users and control partners.

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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