Business Analyst - Financial Planning, AVP

Business Analyst - Financial Planning, AVP

Wealth Management Platforms

Location : New York Plaza

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

The Field Experience & Platforms Team is responsible for delivering and maintaining a best-in-class, holistic wealth management experience for our Advisors to meet our clients wherever they are throughout their life-cycle.

Primary Responsibilities

Key responsibilities will include but will not be limited to the following :

• As part of the Financial Planning team, this individual will support the development and management of the firm's financial planning and advice tools.
• Business requirement development and agile story development, including story grooming, impact analysis and issue tracking and resolution.
• Assist with requirements socialization and approval process.
• Facilitate business requirement elaboration and analysis sessions to drive the development of functional requirements.
• Work directly with the product owners to ensure that specific initiatives supporting the platform strategy are executed.
• Work closely with user experience teams to design solutions that meet business needs.
• Review functional and data requirements.
• Review test plans, test scripts and test data for UAT phase.
• Review test results and participate in user acceptance testing, including participating in defect status / review meetings, reporting issues, provide guidance and clarification to UAT team and sign off on required changes.
• Assist in release events and required regression testing

Qualifications

Required Skills

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY :

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll 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. There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $85,000 and $140,000 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.

Morgan Stanley's 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, gender, 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.