IM Operations- Portfolio Recordkeeping Director (AVP)

Portfolio Accounting & Recordkeeping Director

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Portfolio Accounting & Recordkeeping Director to support and evolve a best-in-class Portfolio Accounting function.

In the Operations division, we partner with business units across the firm to support financial transactions, devise and implement effective controls and develop client relationships. This is a Team Manager position at the Director level, that will be responsible to ensure accurate, timely, and globally consistent portfolio accounting, valuation, and production of the official investment / performance book and record.

This role sits within the Public Markets Middle Office and is pivotal to ensuring data accuracy, transparency, and operational readiness across the firm's investment operations in support of MSIM clients, investment teams and traders, reporting teams and other essential uses of middle office operations data. As the Portfolio Recordkeeping Director, you would be responsible for the daily execution of accounting and recordkeeping processes across various investment strategies and asset classes. This role will be part of a global team in a follow the sun model, ensuring the integrity of the MSIM's start of day, end of day, and period close books and records.

This role will support the Portfolio Accounting & Recordkeeping Vice President in implementing business process and deliver high-quality, ready for business data to enable front-to-back operational processes, investment analytics, regulatory compliance, and a best-in-class client experience.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

Interested in joining a team that's eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on

• Develop staff, lead projects and control deployment of resources, owning management tools / methods such as work queues, checklists, depth charts and calendars
• Set direction and expectations for your team(s), defining training plans and transfer of expert knowledge to contribute to team output and development
• Contribute to business plan for area, establish risk / contingency plans, raise and address issues with urgency when required
• Produce and publish the official Aladdin Portfolio Asset Value on a monthly, in accordance with client and reporting SLAs, including performing all Quality Control (QC) checks to finalize and close the books.
• Manage daily portfolio accounting and recordkeeping process, ensuring all transaction (trades, income, accruals, corporate actions) and positions are processed timely, completely, and accurately.
• Support standardization and documentation of operational procedures across portfolios and asset classes.
• Ensure complete, accurate, and timely start of day positions to support investment process, including start of day cash and projected cash to support investment teams.
• Act as a point of escalation for team analysts, in helping to research and resolve exceptions cross-functionally to the accounting books of record (start of day, end of day, and period close) within established SLAs.
• Provide support and expertise on tax lot accounting principles, particularly for tax-managed portfolios, to enable accurate tax reporting and performance attribution.
• Capture key metrics to help drive effective management of the day-to-day operations.
• Actively partner with Data Quality and Engineering team to develop and refine data anomaly detection and mitigation strategies to prevent impact to MSIM books and records.
• Document, maintain, and oversee adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Ongoing business process improvement leveraging automation with low code tooling.

What you'll bring to the role :

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.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $105,000 and $156,000 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.