Global Financial Crimes Firco Continuity Director (AVP)

Global Financial Crimes (GFC): FIRCO Continuity Specialist – Director (AVP) In the Legal & Compliance division we assist the Firm in achieving its business objectives by facilitating and overseeing the Firm's management of legal, regulatory and franchise risk. This is a Director level position within the Global Screening Team. What you'll do in the role: 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, identifying, logging and escalating 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 management. Manage an effective team of functional specialists overseeing the ongoing maintenance of the Firco tool. What you'll bring to the role: 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 with List Management / List testing initiatives – involving sanctions regulatory lists (OFAC, UN, EU, etc.) and 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 a structured approach to documentation. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. For more information, please visit: #J-18808-Ljbffr Morgan Stanley