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Financial Crimes Risk Officer - Program Advisory - Vice President

Morgan Stanley
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Aug 2025

About the role

The Financial Crimes Program Advisory Assistant Vice President is part of the First Line Financial Crimes Risk Office Team responsible for the requirements and maintenance of the first line of defense financial crimes program defining risk mitigant strategy, policy changes and technology requirement for Wealth Management & E*TRADE including supporting US Banks, and Investment Management business.

This role will engagement with different partners to develop, enhance and redesign of Financial Crimes Policy, process and procedure requirement focusing on risk mitigation and enhanced execution. Leads coordination efforts and set strategic priorities and direction for the development and implementation of the new programs requirements to ensure regulatory compliance and effective execution. Focused on enhanced control environment, reduced manual processes, and automated controls. Serves as a trusted advisor to the business and partners to deliver solutions to complex and elevated issues.

This role involves collecting and analyzing data to provide actionable insights that support decision-making and strategic planning within the US Financial Crime Risk Modeling & Advanced Analytics team. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to create scalable data science solutions that align with regulatory requirements and best practices.
 
Responsibilities:
- Support the development and implementation of new processes, requirements, policy changes, and design of new operating models for Wealth Management & E*TRADE including supporting US Banks, and Investment Management business.
- Support the assessment of enhancements needed for Financial Crimes program including AML, Sanctions and Tax evasion controls.  
- Partner with different stakeholders to Develop  and enhance AI solutions to collect and analyze data using data science techniques to uncover actionable insights.
- Work with process owners, subject matter experts, technical experts, end users and other stakeholders to gather information about current processes within the Single Process Inventory (SPI) to document the end-to-end business process with focus on data attributes, data sources, control features, and interfaces with other systems. Ensure consistency in rules/definitions across SPIs, where applicable
- Perform daily data integration, profiling and visualization via multiple data tools (e.g. via MS Office Excel, Dataiku, and others) to support and assess the design of Financial Crimes strategies proposed by First Line Financial Crime
- Perform research and analysis of enterprise data sets to identify key data points from Wealth Management and US Banks source systems to promote processes improvements within Financial Crimes 
- Work with technology teams to review and enhance existing data environments by incorporating data tables as deemed necessary for analytical purposes
- Participate in training sessions for analytical tools and data forums to keep Financial Crimes Program Advisory up-to-date with data developments and existing migrations plans 
- Collaborate with data analysts, software engineers, and data engineers to create sustainable data science solutions.
- Visualize data insights to effectively communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Participate in cross-functional initiatives as a subject matter expert.
- Monitor service and productivity levels, implementing continuous improvements where necessary.
- Educate the organization on statistical validation and data science principles.
- Support the assessment of complex issues, structure potential solutions, and drive effective resolution with senior stakeholders.
- Work autonomously influencing changes in policies, process and procedures in coordination with multiple leadership teams, stakeholders and second line of the defense partners. 
- Support the management of strategic initiatives, processes and tasks supporting the financial crimes program.
- Collaborate with, and provide credible challenge to the Business, Operations, Second Line of defense, technology, and other strategic partners for the design, implementation, and maintenance of controls to manage the Financial Crimes Risk program.
- Lead key projects and initiatives related to assessing and mitigating the Firm’s exposure to financial crimes and operational risks.
- Ability to manage multiply work streams with conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills.  
- Highly proficient in Power Point decks development and ability to craft message to audience in a concise, effective, and proactive manner.
- Think outside the box to develop solutions to improve our financial crimes program with goals of enhancing controls, implementing efficiency and improving customer experience.

Required Experience:
- Have 7+ years of relevant ex

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