Assistant Vice President, Risk Management

Morgan Stanley • New York, NY

22h • $136,000 - $140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC seeks an Assistant Vice President, Risk Management in New York, NY to assist in the development and execution of the Wealth Management Cyber Resilience Framework, aligning with FFIEC, FINRA, and internal Firm resilience strategies. Support the Key Business Services (KBS) program by collaborating with Firm Resilience teams to ensure critical services, systems, and assets are being continuously identified, mapped, and tested. Conduct detailed dependency mapping across people, processes, technology, and third parties to identify operational risks and ensure resilient support for critical business functions. Design and implement technical and procedural failover/failback strategies to ensure seamless continuity of high-priority systems during disruption scenarios. Maintain annual business continuity testing and scenario-based cyber resilience exercises, while analyzing results, communicating findings, and driving remediation efforts. Track and report KPIs/KRIs, while monitoring regulatory developments and promoting a continuous improvement culture aligned with the firm’s operational resilience objectives. Telecommuting permitted up to 1 days per week.

Requirements

• Requires a Master’s in Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Requires two (2) years of experience in the position offered or two (2) years as a Data Office, Associate, Information Security Senior Consultant, or a related occupation
• Requires two (2) years of experience with the following skills: Operational Risk Frameworks and Risk identification methodologies; Security Architecture & Risk control design; Cybersecurity Governance & Risk Management (GRC); Implementing governmental risk policies, standards, regulatory and audit compliance requirements issued by FINRA, FFIEC, and SEC; Vendor Risk & Third-Party Continuity Assessments; Cyber Resilience Strategies and Systems Risk Assessments; Data Analysis for Risk Trend Identification and Reporting; Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) Methodologies; Risk Management tools and Repositories including Fusion RM, Everbridge, Archer GRC, IBM OpenPages, Process Unity (iShield); Financial products, markets, and regulatory expectations; and Cross-functional communication and stakeholder engagement in risk contexts.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development and execution of the Wealth Management Cyber Resilience Framework, aligning with FFIEC, FINRA, and internal Firm resilience strategies.
• Support the Key Business Services (KBS) program by collaborating with Firm Resilience teams to ensure critical services, systems, and assets are being continuously identified, mapped, and tested.
• Conduct detailed dependency mapping across people, processes, technology, and third parties to identify operational risks and ensure resilient support for critical business functions.
• Design and implement technical and procedural failover/failback strategies to ensure seamless continuity of high-priority systems during disruption scenarios.
• Maintain annual business continuity testing and scenario-based cyber resilience exercises, while analyzing results, communicating findings, and driving remediation efforts.
• Track and report KPIs/KRIs, while monitoring regulatory developments and promoting a continuous improvement culture aligned with the firm’s operational resilience objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level