Senior Analyst, Business Continuity & Resilience - Parametric

About Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

About Parametric

Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 2-3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

About The Role

The Senior Analyst, Business Continuity & Resilience will work with business units across the firm to develop, maintain, and test comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Additionally, the Senior Analyst will work at the direction of the Business Continuity and Resilience Director to implement tools and processes specific to enhancing and maintaining the firm's resiliency.

General Description

The Business Continuity and Resilience (BC&R) Senior Analyst is responsible to support and maintain the Firm’s strong resilience and continuity of operations posture. The role provides oversight, is responsible to execute developed strategy of the program, and will work to ensure all annual enhancements and lifecycle assignments are sufficiently maintained across the organization. This role encompasses business continuity, disaster recovery, third-party resilience, and incident management at Parametric. The Senior Analyst works at the discretion of the BC&R Executive Director to implement tools and program components to enhance and maintain Firmwide resiliency.

Primary Responsibilities

– Facilitates the annual update and maintenance process of business continuity plans (BCP), disaster recovery plans (DRP), and incident management playbooks (IMP)

– Contributes to annual Business Impact Analysis (BIA) review and enhancement lifecycle process

– Provides metrics, risk matrices and incident summary reports to various business segments and to the Director

– Identifies opportunities for strategic Firmwide improvements; thus, reducing likelihood of business disruption

– Well-versed and comfortable in co-leading incident management process – primary notetaker to Director

– Knowledgeable in Fusion Risk Management – leads and executes all annual enhancement processes in updating the tool; develop all relevant reports to track health and hygiene of the program

– Manages and supports the coordination, execution process, and ensures robust BCP, DRP, IMP, and third-party vendor risk management exercises are well-executed and tested throughout the lifecycle process

– Supports the development and maintenance of the third-party vendor management program and policy

– Familiar with and ensures governance and oversight of the enterprise-wide third-party management program are adhered to

– Identifies opportunities for strategic improvements that reduce the likelihood of vendor service interruptions

– Work closely with vendor stakeholders to ensure required artifacts for vendors, such as vendor onboarding process, ongoing monitoring artifacts, vendor business reviews, vendor scorecards, etc.

Job Requirements

– Bachelor’s degree with preference in business continuity and resilience or emergency management

– At least 4-7 years’ experience in Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, or another relevant discipline

– Previous work at a financial services organization or another similar industry

– Familiarity with business continuity, disaster recovery and technical data centers processes

– Expert in Fusion Risk Management or other industry Planning systems and applications

– Well organized with the ability to independently manage deliverables and meet deadlines

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

Salary range for the position: $110,000 - $225,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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).

Posting Date

Jul 17, 2024

Primary Location

Americas-United States of America-Washington-Seattle

Other Locations

Americas-United States of America-Georgia-Alpharetta, Americas-United States of America-Massachusetts-Boston

Education Level

Refer to Position Description

Job

Asset/Investment Management

Employment Type

Full Time

Job Level

Vice President