Executive Director: Finance Audit & Control Oversight Lead

Morgan Stanley•New York, NY

7d•$165,000 - $275,000

About The Position

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 organization's 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.

Requirements

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.

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. Owning 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