Senior Investor Oversight Risk Group : Vice President

Vice President, Senior Investor Oversight Risk

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management 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. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

The Wealth Management Senior Investor Oversight Risk team (SIOG), a group within the Wealth Management Client Segments Risk organization is responsible for receiving escalations from internal groups and providing guidance with regard to the proper handling, including intake, tracking, reporting and resolving matters regarding senior clients who may have capacity issues or are possible victims of elder abuse or financial exploitation. In addition to this work, SIOG participates in development and further enhancements to the firm's framework to detect, prevent and oversee senior and vulnerable client matters.

SIOG is seeking to hire Vice Presidents to join the team.

Primary Responsibilities :

The primary role of the SIOG Vice President role is to participate in advising our Risk Officers on the proper handling of senior and vulnerable client matters, including intake, reporting, counsel on responsive action to mitigate risk and protect clients. Matters escalated to SIOG are often challenging and require patience, diligence, empathy, care, strong communication skills, and productive collaboration with internal business partners and colleagues in other departments, such as Field Management, Field Risk, Legal, Compliance, Fraud, Corporate Security, among others. In addition, the matters often require interaction with external parties for resolution, including Adult Protective Services. The duties performed by SIOG employees must be consistent with firm policies, procedures, and applicable industry and state regulation standards.

Other responsibilities include but not limited to the following :

• Review, oversee, and advise on the implementation of the firm's response to potential events of senior or vulnerable adult financial exploitation, diminished capacity, or other concerns affecting Morgan Stanley's senior or vulnerable clients
• Collaborate with internal partners in Business, Corporate Security, Fraud, Legal, Compliance and Risk to formulate actions plans to remediate risk
• Provide notifications to and work with appropriate state agencies and regulators
• Educate Financial Advisors, Risk Officers, and Service Representatives on identifying and escalating senior or vulnerable matters and advising clients and their immediate family on strategies to better protect assets and mitigate risks
• Advise Risk Officers on interviewing senior investors and handling client resolutions of financial exploitation events
• Participation in the assessment of existing controls and processes to mitigate elder client risk, the development of new controls and responses to supervisory alerts.

Qualifications :

What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley :

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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.

New York :

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $120,000 and $165,000 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's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership / union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M / F / Disability / Vet).