Description :

Candidates MUST BE LOCAL TO THE BALTIMORE AREA.

Role is a 12-month contract position.

Top 3 Skills :

- Highly proficient in MS Excel

- Strong communication skills

- Problem solving ability

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM) Operational Risk group is responsible for overseeing the operational risk and control framework within the Wealth Management business unit. This team partners with the Business Risk and Control groups throughout the organization to implement control processes and procedures, report operational losses and reporting, manage audits and exams with Compliance and Internal Audit, organize the annual Risk and Control Self-Assessment, and coordinate new operational risk programs in partnership with the business as well as Firm Operational Risk Management.

This role will provide broad exposure to all functions and business lines within Wealth Management. The main responsibilities of this role will be to focus on mitigating risk and improving the control environment within Wealth Management. The responsibilities of the role are a combination of business as usual processes as well as discrete projects that are strategic in nature.

This role will provide broad exposure to all functions and business lines within Wealth Management. The main responsibilities of this role will be to focus on special data and analytics related project within Wealth Management Operational Risk. Specific duties within the WM Operational risk team will include:

• Work closely with Business Control groups within Wealth Management to conduct data analysis on operational incident related data – Root cause analysis, Impact analysis, etc.

• Understand the incident management framework to develop Key Risk Indicators and create automated visualization using tools like Tableau

• Conduct trainings on the developed incident reporting

• Assist with regular incident metrics and analysis for Senior Management, which allows for visibility into incident volumes, distribution by WM divisions, and incident impacts. Identify and track thematic operational risk incidents

• Review the various Operational Risk frameworks and assess integration opportunities with the Operational Risk incident management function

Desired Qualifications:

• 1+ years of Consulting, Risk management, and/or Audit experience.

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint.

• Solid written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with senior stakeholders.

• Strong analytical skills. Must take a data and facts-based approach to problem solving.

• Bachelor’s degree

• Strong experience with Excel is a must (VLookup, Pivot Tables, etc)
• Knowledge or exposure to SQL, Python, or Tableau is nice to have