VP of Operational Intelligence & Risk Analytics

Morgan-Stanley; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley Parametric is seeking an Operations Vice President (Operational Intelligence) to lead risk analytics within Parametric Investment Operations. You will measure, monitor, and improve daily processes to escalate risk early and ensure scalable, effective controls aligned with business goals.

You will design KRIs, develop automated monitoring, and partner across Technology, Risk, and Operations to strengthen resilience and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Operations, Risk Management, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Information Systems and Analytics, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in investment operations, operational risk, control assurance, business controls, process governance, change management, business intelligence, data engineering and analytics, or financial services operations.
• Strong understanding of investment operations, operational controls, data and system dependencies, and regulated financial services environment.
• Experience leading incidents, root cause analysis, and sustainable remediation.
• Experience designing KRIs using operational data and risk signals to identify emerging risks and support escalation.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain KRIs aligned to material risks, controls, and business processes.
• Establish KRI definitions, data sources, thresholds, and escalation criteria with operational leaders.
• Analyze KRI trends and exceptions to identify emerging risks, support management decisions, and drive action.
• Develop automated control monitoring using system data, risk thresholds, exception aging, and anomaly detection.
• Partner with Technology and Operations to convert manual controls into scalable monitoring and testing.
• Establish control exception alerting and escalation workflows for timely investigation and remediation.
• Analyze risk, control, process, system, and dependency relationships to identify concentration and interconnected risk.
• Develop risk maps and factor analysis linking events, control failures, and vulnerabilities to underlying drivers.
• Use analysis to prioritize risk mitigation strategies, inform control design, and improve risk visibility.
• Analyze operational data, incidents, near misses, control exceptions, and emerging trends to detect increasing risk.
• Develop adverse scenarios and stress analyses for critical workflows to assess potential impacts.
• Translate findings into mitigation, resiliency, and escalation recommendations.
• Serve as the dedicated point of risk escalation and judgment for Parametric Investment Operations.
• Integrate risk management practices into daily operations and strategic initiatives.
• Provide independent risk challenge on operational decisions and transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate control effectiveness and identify gaps, vulnerabilities, concentration risks, and failure points.
• Partner with operational leaders to identify emerging risks and drive sustainable remediation.
• Maintain operational risk and control inventories, maps, and documentation.
• Oversee Investment Operations incident reporting, escalation, investigation, and resolution.
• Lead root cause analysis for significant Investment Operations incidents, control failures, client impacts, and near-misses.
• Monitor corrective action plans to ensure timely and sustainable remediation.
• Identify recurring or systemic operational risks.
• Support resiliency planning for critical workflows and client servicing.
• Assess operational impacts of technology, automation, and process changes.
• Identify and mitigate control gaps for new business activities and material changes with business leads prior to implementation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Operational risk

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Operations, Risk Management, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Information Systems and Analytics

Tools

MS Office

SQL

Alteryx

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

Morgan Stanley Parametric is seeking an Operations Vice President (Operational Intelligence) to lead risk analytics within Parametric Investment Operations. You will measure, monitor, and improve daily processes to escalate risk early and ensure scalable, effective controls aligned with business goals.

You will design KRIs, develop automated monitoring, and partner across Technology, Risk, and Operations to strengthen resilience and reporting.