Hybrid Associate Project Manager – Business Transformation Services

at Morgan Stanley

• Job title: Associate Project Manager – Business Transformation Services
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dallas, United States

About the role

• Project Manager providing support for Merger and Integrations initiatives at Morgan Stanley. Collaborating with business, technology, and risk teams to ensure effective project execution and support.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management support for initiatives aligned to Merger and Integrations, Strategic Initiatives Delivery and/or Organizational Change & Readiness
• Collaborate with partners in the business, technology, and risk and control functions
• Provide support, and work with project teams, to build out a project’s governance, reporting and tracking, from initiation, to execution, and to scale
• Conduct analysis on program dependencies, progress through the various phases to inform timelines, execution, and business strategy
• Ensure comprehensive documentation of requirements, assumptions, changes in scope etc. associated with project and establish an audit trail to demonstrate these activities have been addressed
• Provide mechanisms to capture & monitor remediation of any potential risks
• Enable appropriate escalation of any item that may impact timely delivery or cause a change to the agreed scope of project
• Ensure effective communication and reporting to functional teams, manager, and stakeholders
• Support key program leads and resources in executing key deliverables
• Independently identify opportunities to drive project/ programs forward

Requirements

• BS/BA degree required
• A minimum of 2-4 years of professional experience in project management, product development, business management, or management consulting in the financial services industry, ideally Wealth Management
• Ability to quickly turn around high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to drive delivery/execution of a wide range of tasks and initiatives independently
• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams to meet delivery timelines
• Ability to highlight key risks and issues that may impact the project/ program health, and manage the risk to closure
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, ability to interact at all levels of the organization and tailor messages appropriately
• Strong presentation skills, including ability to synthesize large amounts of data and information to create polished PowerPoint presentations for various levels of management
• Independent self-starter who can manage multiple activities to aggressive deadlines
• Eagerness to learn the business and understand detailed requirements
• Organizational skills and ability to organize information in a meaningful way
• Experience managing one or various workstreams
• High attention to detail; follows through to ensure accuracy of materials
• Skilled in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project, Visio, and SharePoint

Benefits

• some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry