Executive Director: Finance Audit & Control Oversight Lead

Role Summary Serve as senior Finance Risk lead for all internal audit-related interactions across Finance. The Finance-Wide Audit and Control Oversight lead serves as a key senior point of contact between the finance department leads and internal audit teams, ensuring comprehensive oversight of all audit activities, findings, and control framework evaluations across the organization. This role is responsible for maintaining a holistic, cross-functional perspective on all interactions related to audits and controls, supporting the organizations commitment to effective risk management, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. This role requires strong senior-level partnership and accountability for ensuring effective communication and coordination with Finance leadership, Internal Audit and relevant stakeholders. This leader will provide a comprehensive, thematic view of audit activities, preliminary findings, and control frameworks to ensure consistency and alignment with firm standards across Finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as day-to-day POC for Internal Audit across Finance and a key stakeholder within internal audit continuous monitoring discussions.
• Partner closely with Head of Finance Risk & Assurance (FinRiA), Finance Operations, Chief Accounting Officer, Finance Management and Finance Technology to align and coordinate across the Internal Audit life cycle.
• Partner with finance leadership to ensure Finance is prepared for audits including cross Finance coordination and feedback on the annual audit plan and the proactive identification of control gaps ahead of internal audit reviews, in conjunction with the Non-Financial Risk and Control Assessment process.
• Ensure consistent and high-quality audit responses, documentation, and remediation plans.
• Objectively and consistently mediate, and escalate where necessary, audit rating discussions.
• Maintain a read-across view of all audit engagements, including discussions on preliminary findings, root cause analysis, and work plans.
• Assess control frameworks across Finance functions; identify gaps and drive consistent sustained remediation efforts, including, as appropriate, coordination with Finance Change and Transformation initiatives.
• Develop and present thematic analysis of audit results and control issues with recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Own rules of the road to ensure remediation is consistent and timely across Finance functions/departments.
• Collaborate across the FinRiA organization to strengthen control environment and governance practices.
• Provide updates and insights into global regulatory plans and issue remediation, including closure verification activities by Internal Audit.
• Identify and recommend areas where additional reviews by either Internal Audit or Finance Quality Assurance functions can assist Finance Management in providing insight into the adequacy of controls.

Qualifications

• Ability to read, comprehend, and distill audit findings across multiple functional areas with clarity. Connecting outcomes to actionable plans across the organization.
• Strong understanding of audit processes, internal controls, risk management, issue management and relevant governance frameworks.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; possess the ability to constructively challenge and influence stakeholders at senior levels both within and outside of Finance.
• Proven controller or control-focused experience in Finance, Audit, or Risk roles.

What You Can Expect from Morgan Stanley We have a track record of innovation and passion for unlocking new opportunities, we help our clients raise, manage and allocate capital. We do this by offering a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and asset management services. All that we do at Morgan Stanley is driven by our five core values: do the right thing, put clients first, lead with exceptional ideas, commit to diversity and inclusion, and give back. These arent just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day, ensuring we do whats best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees around the world. And at the core of our success are the people who drive it - relentless collaborators and creative thinkers who are fueled by diverse thinking and experiences. Wherever you are in our 1,200 global offices, youll have the opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are empowered to achieve your full potential. 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. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

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 thats differentiated - and weve 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 - arent just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do whats best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, youll 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. Theres also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Compensation and Benefits Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $165,000 and $275,000 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.

Diversity and Inclusion Morgan Stanleys 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).