Morgan Stanley is looking for a Global Financial Crimes (GFC): FIRCO Continuity Specialist at the Vice President level. This role involves overseeing the operational resilience of FIRCO systems, ensuring compliance with various sanctions regulations, and collaborating with multiple teams to enhance financial crime detection capabilities.

• 7 years of experience in sanctions screening, AML screening operations, or financial crime technology roles.
• Experience with List Management and testing initiatives involving sanctions regulatory lists.
• Experience conducting or overseeing system testing and tuning in a financial institution.
• Background in due diligence, corporate intelligence, or KYC/AML preferred.
• Strong understanding of sanctions programs and AML/KYC principles.
• Familiarity with screening models, fuzzy matching algorithms, and data quality controls.
• Proficiency with SQL, Excel, and Fircosoft tools.
• Excellent communication skills for producing clear summaries for senior stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across regions.
• High attention to detail and structured approach to documentation.

• Oversee daily health checks, continuity controls, and performance monitoring for FIRCO platforms.
• Maintain configuration libraries, watchlists, and filter settings for consistency and integrity.
• Conduct root-cause analysis of system failures and false positive spikes.
• Monitor and report on sanctions screening coverage in line with the Firm's risk appetite.
• Support development, testing, and deployment of screening rules to enhance detection.
• Manage test data creation and regression testing.
• Prepare summaries and status reports for senior management and governance forums.
• Partner with GFC SMEs, Sanctions Compliance, and other teams for continuity planning.
• Manage a team of functional specialists overseeing FIRCO tool maintenance.

• Morgan Stanley offers extensive benefits that support employees’ careers, health, finances, and families, including top-tier medical coverage, mental health support, generous parental leave, fertility and family-building benefits, and robust retirement and stock purchase plans. Employees also gain access to continuous learning and networking opportunities, volunteer and giving programs aligned with the firm’s values, and hundreds of lifestyle perks like discounted products, cultural and entertainment tickets, and commuter savings.