VP, Operational Intelligence & Risk Analytics

Morgan Stanley; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, V

Job summary

Parametric, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, seeks an Operations Vice President (Operational Intelligence) to lead risk analytics within Parametric Investment Operations. You will measure and improve daily processes using data trends to elevate risk visibility, partnering with Ops leadership in a regulated environment.

The role combines operational risk discipline with investment operations know-how, requiring data-driven thinking and the ability to influence senior stakeholders in

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, incident management, root cause analysis, and sustainable remediation.
• Experience designing KRIs using operational data and risk signals to identify emerging risks and support escalation.
• Experience partnering across Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit on control, and remediation matters.

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, and failure points
• Partner with operational leaders to identify emerging risks and drive remediation
• Maintain operational risk inventories, maps, and documentation
• Oversee incident reporting, escalation, investigation, and resolution
• Lead root cause analysis for significant incidents and verify remediation
• Monitor corrective action plans for timely closure
• Identify recurring or systemic operational risks
• Support resiliency planning for critical workflows and changes
• Assess impacts of technology, automation, and process changes
• Mitigate control gaps for new business activities and material changes

Skills

Operational risk discipline

Investment operations expertise

Data-driven analysis

Stakeholder influence

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business/ Economics or related

Tools

MS Office

SQL

Alteryx

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

Parametric, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, seeks an Operations Vice President (Operational Intelligence) to lead risk analytics within Parametric Investment Operations. You will measure and improve daily processes using data trends to elevate risk visibility, partnering with Ops leadership in a regulated environment.

The role combines operational risk discipline with investment operations know-how, requiring data-driven thinking and the ability to influence senior stakeholders in