VP, Asia Commodities Trade Operations Lead

Morgan Stanley; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Vice President to lead the Asia Commodities Trade Support team in Singapore. This role oversees trade capture, lifecycle events, reconciliation, and exception resolution while engaging with Sales/Traders and regional/global operations.

You will drive governance, talent development, and regional strategy across Commodities operations. You will build platforms, improve processes, and partner with global leads to ensure strong controls and efficient delivery in a dynamic

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of operations experience with 6–10 years in Commodities operations.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision for the direction of your team in conjunction with global peer group ensuring consistent execution, strong control framework, business enablement and process adherence within all local regulations
• Take responsibility for talent acquisition, developing a bench of talent, and creating a plan for succession
• Run the operation as a business by considering client service needs, cost effectiveness and the department's automation and efficiency agenda
• Partner directly with peers across Business Units and / or external stakeholders to provide input and execute on strategy and future state of their respective group > Oversight of day-to-day responsibilities within SG Commodities Trade Support team
• Establish and execute governance framework for Asia regional commodities operation
• Act as contact point for Commodities business in Asia
• Leading the build out of new business platform and related infrastructure to support new Commodities products and business initiatives in Asia
• Look for process or system improvements to increase consistency, capacity and mitigate risk. Implement Automation and AI strategy
• Ensuring all daily processes and SLAs are met within applicable timeframes
• Ensuring business processing is in compliance with Firm policy/procedure and local regulations
• Complying with all regulatory filing and reporting requirements
• Managing staff performance, training and development
• Build and maintain relationships at all levels of the firm's, clients', and outsourcing agent's organization including strong partnerships between branch operations team and global/regional functional leads and SME's

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Risk Awareness

Process Improvement

Automation/AI

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Vice President to lead the Asia Commodities Trade Support team in Singapore. This role oversees trade capture, lifecycle events, reconciliation, and exception resolution while engaging with Sales/Traders and regional/global operations.

You will drive governance, talent development, and regional strategy across Commodities operations. You will build platforms, improve processes, and partner with global leads to ensure strong controls and efficient delivery in a dynamic