Alternative Investment Services Operations Director (AVP)

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Director in IM Operations to oversee transactions for multiple investment types, including alternative investments, public investments, and derivatives, held across Morgan Stanley Investment Management businesses supported by Alternative Investment Services AIS.

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 Specialist position at Director level within Product Support & Services, which is responsible for providing transaction support and managing post execution processes.

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…

What You’ll Do In The Role

• Serve as a subject matter expert within functional area, working with Team Manager to manage processes, risks and/or projects, proposing and implementing improvements/changes
• Act as key problem solver for area or expertise, applying detailed knowledge to address unique or novel situations, recognize risks and draw out key issues
• Coordinate work, train and develop other team members where required, including task allocation, and project contribution
• Actively monitor critical investment subscription and redemption activity for multiple portfolios and custodian banks; ensure satisfactory settlement of those transactions, including cash distributions and receipts; track investment subscription and redemption documentation to ensure safe and timely receipt by underlying administrators, transfer agents or managers, and confirm subscription and redemption documentation terms to trade tickets or contract notes
• Ensure proper compliance procedures are followed in connection with the portfolio purchase and sales activity and coordinate appropriate wire instruction settlements of these transactions with the custodian bank, including providing cash instruction to certain banking institutions for the payment of investment purchases, capital calls, and portfolio-level expenses. Perform call back verifications to validate third party wire instructions
• Develop significant level of expertise of the holdings, terms, and transactions of multiple investment types, including hedge funds, private equity funds, co-investments, secondaries, equity and fixed income securities, mutual funds, ETFs, swaps, forwards and other derivative instruments. Develop an understanding of complex portfolio structures, including leveraged corporate blockers, AIVs, SPVs and other customized portfolios, in order to provide intuitive and proactive oversight of these portfolios and underlying investments
• Monitor cash levels for portfolios with credit facilities and coordinate with investment and accounting teams on drawdown/paydown requests and debt covenant reporting
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• Ability to lead by example, work with drive and determination, and put forward challenging views to senior levels
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of functional area and operational/compliance policies and procedures of their team
• Ability to operate independently across the majority of day-to-day responsibilities
• Culture carrier across Operations, embracing the Firm's core values and acting as a role model
• Prior experience in alternative investment operations is preferred but not required; experience with Investran is a plus
• Strong organizational skills and an orientation toward strict attention to detail
• Proven record of collaborating with colleagues across geographic and functional boundaries
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of alternative investments (hedge funds, private equity funds, derivatives accounting) and/or public securities is a plus
• At least 4 years’ relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this 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 85 years. At our foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide our more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find trusted colleagues, committed mentors and a culture that values diverse perspectives, individual intellect and cross-collaboration. We Firm is differentiated by the caliber of our diverse team. While our company culture and commitment to inclusion define our legacy and shape our future, helping to strengthen our business and bring value to clients around the world. Learn more about how we put this commitment to action: morganstanley.com/diversity. 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.

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

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).