Global Financial Crimes Firco Continuity Director (AVP)

About the role

This role oversees the daily health checks, continuity controls, and performance monitoring for FIRCO Name and Transaction Screening platforms. It involves maintaining configuration libraries, watchlists, hotlists, and filter settings to ensure consistency and integrity across regions. Additionally, it includes conducting root-cause analysis of system failures, stoppages, latency issues, and false positive spikes. The role also ensures sanctions screening coverage is monitored and reported upon, aligning with the firm's risk appetite and identifying any gaps.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily health checks, continuity controls, and performance monitoring for FIRCO Name and Transaction Screening platforms.
• Maintain configuration libraries, watchlists, hotlists, and filter settings to ensure consistency and integrity across regions.
• Conduct root-cause analysis of system failures, stoppages, latency issues, and false positive spikes.
• Ensure sanctions screening coverage is monitored and reported upon, and is aligned with the firm's risk appetite and identify any gaps.
• Support development, testing, and deployment of screening rules and filter logic to enhance detection and reduce noise.
• Manage test data creation (fudge data), scenario validation, and regression testing (mirroring processes in rule-writing and sanctions model oversight).
• Prepare summaries, status reporting, and thematic issue logs for senior management and governance forums.
• Retain governance documentation to support audits, regulatory examinations, and internal assurance reviews.
• Partner with GFC SMEs, Sanctions Compliance, AML IT, Operations, and Business Units for continuity planning, system enhancement, and change bank activities.
• Manage an effective team of functional specialists overseeing the ongoing maintenance of the FIRCO tool.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in sanctions screening, AML screening operations, filtering systems (e.g., FIRCO Continuity/Trust), or broader financial crime technology roles. Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field (advanced degree preferred). Experience of List Management / List testing initiatives - involving sanctions regulatory lists (e.g., OFAC / UN / EU etc.,) as well as company specific / internal 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 (OFAC, OFSI, EU, UN) and AML/KYC principles. Familiarity with screening models, fuzzy matching algorithms, configuration and data quality controls. Proficiency with SQL, Excel, Fircosoft FMM & FML tools (or similar) and analysis of large datasets. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to produce clear summaries for senior stakeholders. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across regions and business units. High attention to detail and structured approach to documentation.

Qualifications

Must have a Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field (advanced degree preferred).

Skills

Experience in sanctions screening, AML screening operations, filtering systems (e.g., FIRCO Continuity/Trust), or broader financial crime technology roles. Strong understanding of sanctions programs (OFAC, OFSI, EU, UN) and AML/KYC principles. Familiarity with screening models, fuzzy matching algorithms, configuration and data quality controls. Proficiency with SQL, Excel, Fircosoft FMM & FML tools (or similar) and analysis of large datasets. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to produce clear summaries for senior stakeholders. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across regions and business units. High attention to detail and structured approach to documentation.

Benefits

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley has been 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.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Skills

Experience in sanctions screening, AML screening operations, filtering systems (e.g., FIRCO Continuity/Trust), or broader financial crime technology roles. Strong understanding of sanctions programs (OFAC, OFSI, EU, UN) and AML/KYC principles. Familiarity with screening models, fuzzy matching algorithms, configuration and data quality controls. Proficiency with SQL, Excel, Fircosoft FMM & FML tools (or similar) and analysis of large datasets. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to produce clear summaries for senior stakeholders. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across regions and business units. High attention to detail and structured approach to documentation.

Benefits

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley has been 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.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD