We're seeking someone to join our team as a Global Head of Due Diligence to oversee a geographically diverse team of managers and analysts based in New York, London, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, providing critical business intelligence and risk insights to front-line business partners by identifying, assessing, and escalating potential risks across a comprehensive range of reputational, regulatory, financial, and operational risk areas.
In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
What you'll do in the role:
- Lead and manage a globally distributed team of full-time employees and contingent workers responsible for conducting due diligence investigations that support business unit and Firm risk identification and mitigation processes.
- Oversee due diligence research processes across regions, ensuring the program uses current best practices and best-in-class data sources.
- Develop, maintain, and govern global policies and procedures related to the conduct of due diligence across the Firm.
- Ensure the Due Diligence Program remains aligned with existing Firm policies, procedures, and control expectations.
- Build and maintain relationships with senior business unit leadership, providing program updates, metrics, cost estimates, policy updates, and risk insights.
- Develop global strategies to improve program efficiency, cost effectiveness, and delivery quality, including oversight of external due diligence investigative vendors supporting the Firm.
What you'll bring to the role:
- Four-year college degree.
- 20+ years of EDD/KYC-related experience; investigative and/or analytical experience may be substituted.
- 10+ years of supervisory experience.
- Extensive knowledge of the global regulatory environment, including laws related to money laundering, financial crimes, corruption, and high-risk factors involving jurisdictions, industries, and environmental and social risk.
- Mastery of public record databases, internet sites, due diligence vendors, and information resources used in due diligence research, including the ability to evaluate new databases and external vendors that enhance the due diligence process.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with strong business writing, editing, analytical, communication, presentation, public speaking, organizational, and time-management skills.
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.
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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.
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Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm offering a complete range of financial services to a large and diversified group of clients and customers, including governments, corporations, institutions and individuals throughout the world. The talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity and excellence. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and to grow.