Finance Governance Manager

Responsibilities

• Data Governance — Facilitating Finance-wide governance through the Finance Data Governance Committee (DGC) and coordinating/escalating activities across the Firm.
• Award Data Sourcing — Managing sourcing of authoritative data to the Finance Data Warehouse (FDW) and enabling its adoption across Finance.
• Systems Data Governance & Lineage — Implementing systems governance standards, executing lineage, managing system feed governance, and maintaining system dictionaries.
• Issue Management — Managing, monitoring, and reporting on Finance data issues.

Qualifications

• Understanding of investment banking industry and finance functional area.
• Able to operate comfortably in ambiguity.
• Self-starter able to identify next steps, propose and refine approach, and execute with minimal oversight.
• Experience creating clarity, structure, and momentum where they do not yet exist.
• Lead through facilitation, presence, and follow-through in a flat organization structure.
• Flex between strategy, facilitation, and hands-on execution to deliver business value.
• Experience in data governance, data management, or data controls within Finance, Risk, or Regulatory reporting environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate standards into clear execution guidance.
• Ability to execute detailed governance tasks while understanding broader Finance reporting and control objectives.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills with high attention to detail.
• Prowess in identifying, managing, and escalating delivery and adoption risks requiring reprioritization to senior leadership.
• Proven ability to work across Finance and Technology teams and manage multiple deliverables in parallel.

What We're Looking For

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $90,000 and $155,000 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.

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