Dir, Team Specialist, Change, Analytics & Strategy

Key Responsibilities

The role requires the candidate to work in partnership with the Product Operations Line teams and IT, to deliver on key market and business change initiatives. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Leading detailed analysis with line staff, wider Ops groups and Business Units to formulate and consolidate business requirements
• Managing the documenting of business processes including business rules and reference data requirements
• Preparation of test strategies and approaches, documentation of test scripts and test execution
• Project planning and control
• Status tracking and reporting
• Issue and risk management Skills required (essential)

Qualification & Requirements

The successful candidate will perform a variety of functions and must demonstrate:

• Sound understanding of product reference data and associated market data providers
• Proven project management experience with evidence of successful delivery against targets
• Effective business analysis skills coupled with a strong track record developing functional knowledge
• Knowledge and effective application of the principles and discipline of project management
• Ability to manage changing priorities and objectives
• Experience working in an Agile delivery model

Others

• A good understanding of investment banks and Operations
• Demonstrated Project / Software Delivery Management skills including issue and risk management, planning and control
• Demonstrated problem solving and business analysis skills, i.e. the ability to structure an approach to work through and solve complex and ill-defined problems and issues
• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile delivery model
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to work well under time constraints and with multiple projects
• Advanced MS Office skills, including MS Project/ MS PowerPoint

Skills desired

• Product / security reference data experience
• Experience in consulting or other project management roles

Benefits

At Morgan Stanley, our employees are our most valued asset. And we invest in them by offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive benefits and perks in the industry to support their and their family’s physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

If you join us, your benefits will start with the essentials like top-notch health care, a retirement plan with a competitive company match, as well as a robust mental health benefit.

Family Support. Whether you’re welcoming a new child, helping your children grow and develop, or caring for aging parents, we have programs to help. We offer generous parental leave (16 weeks for all new parents and an additional 6-8 weeks for employees who give birth), as well as caregiver leave when you need to care for a seriously ill family member (4 weeks annually).

Our family support programs include a $75,000 family building benefit to offset the cost of fertility treatments (IVF, egg- and sperm-freezing), adoption and surrogacy. Additionally, expert care is available round-the-clock, at no charge, from OB-GYNs, midwives, doulas, lactation, sleep and potty training consultants, speech therapists and child psychologists to name a few.

Mental Health. Employees and their dependents each have 16 annual sessions with skilled coaches and therapists at no cost, and access to mental health doctors. You can also take advantage of free access to a leading mindfulness app and five guest accounts for household members.

Onsite Services. Employees based in our NYC locations have access to health centers, mental health counseling, fitness centers, physical therapy and restorative suites at the office. Many services are free or subsidized.

Perks. And we can’t forget the fun stuff. You’ll enjoy hundreds of perks and discounts on automobiles, electronics, retail merchants, travel, entertainment, museums and more.