Fund Services - Technology Product Development: Project Manager/Business Analyst

Morgan Stanley Fund Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, administers over $260 billion of hedge fund assets. Using the firm’s proprietary, globally accessible technology platform, the business provides a full range of fund administration services, including daily accounting and financial reporting; transfer agency and investor services; middle and back-office support; and integrated portfolio analytics. Morgan Stanley Fund Services is supported by more than 800 professionals based in New York, London, Dublin, Glasgow, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hong Kong. 

 Position Description:

The Product Development team within Morgan Stanley Fund Services (MSFS) works with the business to establish the overall strategy and priorities for the technology products and platforms. Based on the business strategy and overall priorities, the Product Development team creates product plans including high level business requirements, cost analysis, benefits definition and an overall go to market rollout plan.

The candidate will work closely with the business unit to manage and implement the direction and priorities of the Cash/Payment System platform. This candidate will be responsible for facilitating and gathering detailed user requirements for the development teams, facilitating design reviews with the business and manage the overall rollout plans including QA, user testing, staff training and final delivery. This role also includes being the first line of user support for products, track client issues and works with business to prioritize post implementation issues and enhancements requests. This candidate will have to coordinate between the business, development teams across multiple global locations.

Skills Required:

·         Experience in working on cash wire products, familiar with how payments work, banking systems, encompassing both business and technical aspects of the solutions.

·         Knowledge of Swift payment processing

·         Designing workflows and gathering business requirements.

·         Strong aptitude for undertaking new initiatives for process improvements and workflow simplification.

·         Managing multiple work streams and projects across varying products.

·         Experience in delivering projects and managing system roll outs with impact to cross functional departments

·         Ability to communicate clearly and navigate at all levels in the organization

·         Executive reporting and presentation skills

·         Highly organized with critical thinking abilities at both the strategic and tactical levels

·         Should have good interpersonal, analytical, cross-functional and administrative skills.

·         Ability to work and lead as part of a focused globally distributed team.

Skills/Qualifications Desired:

·         Experience working with/for hedge funds, private equity funds, hedge fund technology vendors, hedge fund administrators and/or prime brokers

·         Needs to be comfortable with Microsoft office: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Share point.

Expected base pay rate for the role will be $90,000 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).