Business Continuity Planning Specialist

We’re seeking someone to join our Business Continuity Planning team as a Business Continuity Planning Specialist in Firm Resilience. Our vision is to build and sustain a globally integrated team that delivers world-class operational resilience programs and processes, with supporting technology solutions able to adapt to changes in the threat landscape or the Firm's operational priorities with precision and tempo. The Business Continuity Planning team, under Firm Resilience provides the framework and oversight for the development of business continuity plans. Additionally, the team performs exercises and technology readiness testing, integrates lessons learned for process improvement and maintains and evolves supporting policy and technology solutions to build operational resilience throughout the Firm.

This is a Risk & Resiliency Management Associate position, which is part of the job family responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks to ensure operational continuity and resilience in the face of potential threats or disruptions that could impact the organization, plus management of ongoing incidents.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Drive Business Continuity Planning program requirements by providing guidance and direction to assigned Business Unit Stakeholders to ensure their Business Continuity Plans are in accordance with the Firm's Business Continuity Management Policy and Procedures.
• Ensure assigned Business Unit Business Continuity Plans are updated, tested and signed off in accordance with the Firm's Business Continuity Management Policy.
• Provide Business Continuity Planning tool training as required.
• Perform enhanced quality assurance of Business Continuity Plans on an ongoing basis and document findings for Business Unit Stakeholders.
• Maintain direct communications via monthly Business Unit planning meetings and activities.
• Assist the department in enhancing, formalizing and standardizing the business continuity planning process.
• Drive and maintain the business recovery site arrangements and set-up.
• Coordinate, guide and oversee annual cycle of BC Plan testing including business recovery site testing.
• Coordinate periodic reviews and tests of established plans and procedures, reporting findings to management and making recommendations for improvements as needed.
• Coordinate monthly reporting collation and distribution for program governance and monitoring purposes.
• Engage with senior management and participate in governance committees to effectively drive the Business Continuity Planning program.
• Dynamically drive and support local, regional, and global managed projects as required.
• Interact with country management to provide guidance, coordination and support during a disruptive event, including escalation, communication and documenting lessons learned.
• Support and participate in internal table-top exercises.

Your role may require some travel.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree.
• Financial Services sector experience.
• Understanding of industry best practices pertaining to Business Continuity Planning and Testing.
• Understanding of existing and emerging regulatory requirements on the financial sector regarding Business Continuity and Operational Resilience.
• Excellent English fluency (verbal & written).
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentation) with the ability to articulate program enhancements to key stakeholders.
• Ample relationship building and influencing skills.
• Self-motivated, calm contending priorities.
• PC skills: Microsoft applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word).
• Resilience, Risk Management or Technical background.
• Professional experience in a Business Continuity Planning Role is a considerable advantage.
• Business Continuity Professional certification as a plus.
• Experience with Fusion RM Tool would be beneficial.

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 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.