Community Affairs Operations Associate

Associate Position

This is an Associate position within our Community Affairs and Morgan Stanley Foundation team which is primarily responsible for the firm's giving back activities, including direct employee engagement, overseeing the Firm's charitable entities, orchestrating charitable giving and maintaining the Firm's reputation around community issues. This role handles operational functions for the department including strategic support and management of large-scale projects and reports to the Operations Lead.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What You'll Do In The Role :

• Support the creation of Foundation financial statements and coordinate audit and tax deliverables, ensuring compliance with control processes.
• Assist in managing Community Affairs technology platforms (e.g., Bonterra, Benevity, E4E), in partnership with colleagues in Technology, Sourcing, and Legal.
• Collaborate with vendor to support Global Volunteer Month program, ensuring both site reliability and data accuracy.
• Facilitate Community Affairs compliance in alignment with Firm infrastructure and industry regulations.
• Support Matching Gifts program by working with vendor to facilitate monthly payments to nonprofit organizations and responding to employee inquiries.
• Assist in data collection, management, and reporting for department and programs, including year-end impact reporting and RFP responses.
• Respond to employee inquiries about Community Affairs and Morgan Stanley Foundation programs.
• Assist department Operations Officer with additional ad hoc projects.

What You'll Bring To The Role :

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 80000 and 125000 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, 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).