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Finance Portfolio Strategy role - Finance - Director

Morgan Stanley
1 New York Plaza, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 May 2026
💰 $155,000/yr($90,000/yr$155,000/yr)

About the role

Role Overview 

The Finance Portfolio Strategy role is a senior execution and orchestration role, responsible for translating the Finance transformation agenda into structured plans, governed delivery, and measurable outcomes. 

This role focuses on portfolio coordination, prioritization support, delivery oversight, and transparency across Finance change initiatives. The Director ensures work across Agile Fleets, Tooling, Change, and delivery partners is aligned, sequenced appropriately, and progressing with discipline—while escalating risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to the leadership as needed. 

 
In the Finance division, we act as a partner to business units around the globe by providing management, review, analysis and advisory services of the Firm's financial and capital resources. This is an VP level position within the position within our Portfolio & Change Management Job Family which manages strategic change management, process re-engineering, and establishment of control procedures for projects with a focus on milestone delivery across projects, managing risks and issues that impact program objectives and facilitating communication across related projects and impacted stakeholders to keep programs on track. 

 

 

What you will do in the role 

The Finance Portfolio Strategy role is a senior execution and orchestration role, responsible for translating the Finance transformation agenda into structured plans, governed delivery, and measurable outcomes. 

This role focuses on portfolio coordination, prioritization support, delivery oversight, and transparency across Finance change initiatives. The Director ensures work across Agile Fleets, Tooling, Change, and delivery partners is aligned, sequenced appropriately, and progressing with discipline—while escalating risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to the leadership as needed. 

 

  • Support management of the Finance Change & Transformation portfolio for each department in Finance. 

  • Translate highlevel strategic priorities into structured initiatives, sequencing, and delivery plans. 

  • Maintain a consolidated view of initiatives, dependencies, and capacity across themes and delivery teams. 

  • Provide daytoday oversight of delivery progress across Finance change initiatives. 

  • Track milestones, risks, interdependencies, and issues; proactively surface concerns and resolution options. 

  • Ensure initiatives are deliveryready, with clear scope, ownership, success measures, and change plans. 

  • Create decisionready materials for executive and Boardlevel forums. 

  • Distill portfolio implications, tradeoffs, and decisions required into clear narratives. 

 

What you will bring to the role 

  • 5+ years of experience in consulting, process optimization, transformation from a program management perspective. 

  • Strong understanding of Finance functional area, industry, and competitive. environment and technical skills, including risks and key regulations relevant to the division. 

  • Proven experience in executing multiple end-to-end process re-engineering initiatives. 

  • Demonstrated success leading programs that span multiple divisions and jurisdictions. 

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Morgan Stanley

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