Finance Cloud Governance Director

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide—from corporations and governments to institutions and individuals—across more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people are critical to our success. Our values—rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethics—define how we work. Morgan Stanley offers a superior foundation for building a career, with opportunities to learn, achieve, and grow in an environment that supports balance, diverse perspectives, and personal development.

Department Profile

The Finance Division, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, comprises approximately 3,000 employees globally. Finance protects the Firm by maintaining its books and records and contributes to firmwide risk management and mitigation. Finance also plays a critical advisory role to the Firm’s businesses and senior management.

Team Profile

The Finance Data Office (FDO) owns the Finance Division’s Data Governance framework. The FDO promotes best practices for data management, focusing on data quality and serving as Finance’s representative on Firmwide data matters. Core responsibilities include:

Data Governance — Facilitating Finance-wide governance through the Finance Data Governance Committee (DGC) and coordinating/escalating activities across the Firm. Authority Data Sourcing — Managing sourcing of authoritative data to the Finance Data Warehouse (FDW) and enabling its adoption across Finance. Systems Data Governance & Lineage — Implementing systems governance standards, executing lineage, managing system feed governance, and maintaining system dictionaries. Issue Management — Managing, monitoring, and reporting on Finance data issues.

With increasing focus on data quality and governance, the FDO is expanding—offering an opportunity to shape the function and gain exposure across Finance, Technology, and senior management.

The Role

The Finance Cloud Governance Director will be responsible for executing and monitoring cloud data governance standards supporting Finance’s adoption of cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake). The role will partner with Finance Delivery teams to ensure Finance’s cloud datasets, containers, and databases have proper ownership, controls, authoritative sourcing, and meet lineage requirements—enabling both regulatory compliance and AI/GenAI readiness.

The Director partners closely with Finance Business Areas, Technology, and Change Management teams to roll out Cloud Governance Standards. The role requires strong attention to detail, hands-on execution, and the ability to translate governance standards into practical, scalable cloud implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and enforce Finance cloud data governance standards

• Partner with Technology and business stakeholders (External Reporting, Capital, Treasury) to ensure cloud design supports “source once, calculate once, control once, report many.”

• Write requirements and partner with Technology to deliver governance Tools and reporting.

• Train Finance and IT teams on governance standards and tools.

• Perform hands-on governance execution activities, including metadata population, lineage documentation, feed onboarding reviews, and governance attestations.

• Prepare presentations, analysis, and status updates for governance forums

• Track, monitor, and report on compliance with Finance cloud governance standards, supporting metrics and dashboards used by senior management.

What We’re Looking For — Qualifications

• Experience in data governance, data management, or data controls within Finance, Risk, or Regulatory reporting environments.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate standards into clear execution guidance.

• Ability to execute detailed governance tasks while understanding broader Finance reporting and control objectives.

• Strong analytical and organizational skills with high attention to detail.

• Proven ability to work across Finance and Technology teams and manage multiple deliverables in parallel.

What you can expect from Morgan Stanley:

We have a track record of innovation and passion for unlocking new opportunities, we help our clients raise, manage and allocate capital. We do this by offering a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and asset management services. All that we do at Morgan Stanley is driven by our five core values: do the right thing, put clien