ISG Management, Associate, Business Solutions Group (London)

Job Description

The Business Solutions Group (BSG) team sits within Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group (ISG) and functions as an in-house management consulting team supporting the firm with strategic program management and delivery, large-scale transformation, operational improvement, and regulatory change or remediation. The team partners with individual business lines, Legal/Risk/Compliance, and senior firm leadership to drive initiatives to completion.

This individual will play a foundational role in shaping the team’s capabilities, delivering high-impact engagements.

Primary Responsibilities

As a key member of the BSG team, this individual will provide program management and delivery support for key business initiatives and will coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams with a key focus on program planning, readiness planning and program execution across all impacted groups (e.g. business, technology, operations, external stakeholders), risk monitoring and remediation planning, and management reporting. 

Key responsibilities will include but will not be limited to the following:

• Support high quality, multi-workstream consulting engagements within ISG including front office, risk, finance, operations and technology.
• Partner with BSG leadership and stakeholders on all stages of program planning and execution to ensure deadlines are met and assist with risk/issue resolution.
• Assist in the production and coordination of various presentations and collateral for senior management.
• Support change management/ process enhancements, control, and governance-related initiatives.
• Partner with various business stakeholders and technology, operations, finance and risk teams to diagnose issues and help develop actionable initiative and sustainable resolutions.
• Help track and analyze engagement economics, staffing, budgets and performance metrics.
• Promote a collaborative, inclusive, high-performance culture that balances excellence with sustainability.

Skills Required:

• Proven ability to manage delivery/execution of a wide range of tasks and initiatives.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Proven experience developing partnerships with and successfully coordinating across various business and functional stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to interact at all levels of the organization and tailor messages appropriately.
• Strong presentation skills, including ability to create polished PowerPoint presentations for various levels of management.
• Independent self-starter who can manage multiple activities to aggressive deadlines.
• Eagerness to learn the business and understand detailed technical requirements. 

Qualifications

• Professional experience in management consulting/strategy, transformation.
• A strong understanding of the sales and trading ecosystem – products, markets, risk management, finance and regulatory drivers.
• Experience building or scaling an internal consulting, strategy, PMO or transformation function.
• Prior roles within consulting firm (strategy, big 4, etc), a global investment bank or asset management firm.
• Project management, product development, business management, or management consulting in the financial services industry, ideally Wealth Management.

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 that’s differentiated – and we’ve 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 - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll 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. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Certified Persons Regulatory Requirements:
If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

Flexible work statement
Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.