Company Profile:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

In the Institutional Equity division, we provide our clients around the world with intellectual insights and innovative product solutions and services that help them generate alpha.

What you’ll do in the role:

Morgan Stanley Fund Services Inc. is seeking an Associate, Investor Services in New York, New York to Maintain the share register of the investment fund. Ensure compliance with the fund documentation, anti-money laundering requirements, statutory regulations, and company policies and procedures. Distribute the Offering Memorandum to potential investors. Complete initial Anti-Money Laundering (AML) reviews. Move wires from the transition account to clients’ Prime Brokerage account. Provide investors and their nominees with automated distribution of statements, contract notes, and other documentation ensuring that it is in compliance with service level agreements. Assist in the production of critical MIS and other internal operational reports that assist in the team’s effective operation. Distribute Tax Estimates, Audited Financial Statements, and K-1s. Provide day-to-day Shareholder services to both the Fund Manager and the investors in the fund. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.

What you’ll bring to the role:

-Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, or a related field. Employer will accept a 3- or 4-year degree. Experience can be gained pre- or post-Bachelor’s degree.

-Requires three (3) years of experience in the position offered or three (3) years as an Associate, Senior Associate, or a related role in investor services.

-Requires three (3) years of experience with the following skills:

• Subscriptions, redemptions, transfers, and investor reporting;
• Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) Compliance;
• Interpreting investor data and performing reconciliations;
• Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, and data validation; and
• Reconciliations of the investor accounts between investor services databases.

-Requires one (1) year of experience with the following skills:

• Investor portals, customer relationship management (CRM) tools;
• Transaction and record maintenance;
• Processing investor redemption wires;
• Initiating subscription wire movements to client Prime Brokerage accounts;
• Performing callbacks with investors to confirm wire instructions;
• Processing capital calls and distribution for Private Equity Funds;
• Client and Investor Portal navigation and updates;
• Sending monthly statements and stratum delivery to investors;
• Sending K-1s, tax estimates to investors;
• Reviewing funds offering documents for a launch and setting up the required rules into the system; and
• Collaborating with IT to enhance reports, systems.

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.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $118,000 and $130,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

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.