Finance Governance Manager

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide—from corporations and governments to institutions and individuals—across more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people are critical to our success. Our values—rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethics—define how we work. Morgan Stanley offers a superior foundation for building a career, with opportunities to learn, achieve, and grow in an environment that supports balance, diverse perspectives, and personal development.

Department Profile

The Finance Division, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, comprises approximately 3,000 employees globally. Finance protects the Firm by maintaining its books and records and contributes to firmwide risk management and mitigation. Finance also plays a critical advisory role to the Firm’s businesses and senior management.

Team Profile

The Finance Data Office (FDO) owns the Finance Division’s Data Governance framework. The FDO promotes best practices for data management, focusing on data quality and serving as Finance’s representative on Firmwide data matters. Core responsibilities include:

Data Governance — Facilitating Finance-wide governance through the Finance Data Governance Committee (DGC) and coordinating/escalating activities across the Firm. Authority Data Sourcing — Managing sourcing of authoritative data to the Finance Data Warehouse (FDW) and enabling its adoption across Finance. Systems Data Governance & Lineage — Implementing systems governance standards, executing lineage, managing system feed governance, and maintaining system dictionaries. Issue Management — Managing, monitoring, and reporting on Finance data issues.

With increasing focus on data quality and governance, the FDO is expanding—offering an opportunity to shape the function and gain exposure across Finance, Technology, and senior management.

The Role

The Finance Cloud Governance Director Manager will be responsible for executing and monitoring cloud data governance standards supporting Finance’s adoption of cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake). The role will partner with Finance Delivery teams to ensure Finance’s cloud datasets, containers, and databases have proper ownership, controls, authoritative sourcing, and meet lineage requirements—enabling both regulatory compliance and AI/GenAI readiness.

The Director role partners closely with Finance Business Areas, Technology, and Change Management teams to roll out Cloud Governance Standards. The role requires strong attention to detail, hands-on execution, and the ability to translate governance standards into practical, scalable cloud implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and enforce Finance cloud data governance standards

• Partner with Technology and business stakeholders (External Reporting, Capital, Treasury) to ensure cloud and business process design supports “source once, calculate once, control once, report many.”

• Support adoption of data ownership through direct facilitation of meetings with senior-level management, enforcing clear expectations of ownership responsibilities.

• Tailor cloud governance enablement to audience maturity, from stewards/practitioners to data owners/senior-level stakeholders.

• Ensure issues / gaps / next steps are explicitly assigned, tracked, and driven to closure.

• Adapt governance structure, cadence and materials iteratively, rather than relying on static templates.

• Write business requirements for and partner with Technology to deliver governance Tools and reporting.

• Deliver training to Finance and IT teams on governance standards and tools.

• Perform hands-on governance execution activities, including metadata population, lineage documentation, feed onboarding reviews, and governance attestations.

• Prepare presentations, analysis, and status updates for governance forums.

• Track, monitor, and report on compliance with Finance cloud governance standards, supporting metrics and dashboards used by senior management.

• Lead execution of data governance initiatives, ensuring alignment to desired outcomes.

• Identify, manage, and escalate delivery and adoption risks requiring reprioritization to senior leadership.

• Own business definition of governance tools, requirements, and roadmaps.

• Incorporate AI requirements into cloud governance planning and delivery.

What We’re Looking For — Qualifications

• Understanding of investment banking industry and finance functional area.

• Able to operate comfortably in ambiguity.

• Self-starter able to identify next steps, propose and refine approach, and execute with minimal oversight.

• Experience creating clarity, structure, and momentum where they do not yet exist.

• Leads through facilitation, presence, and follow-through in a flat organization structure.

• Flex between strategy, facilitation, and hands-on execution to deliver business value.

• Experience in data governance, data management, or data controls within Finance, Risk, or Regulatory reporting environments.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate standards into clear execution guidance.

• Ability to execute detailed governance tasks while understanding broader Finance reporting and control objectives.

• Strong analytical and organizational skills with high attention to detail.

• Proven ability to work across Finance and Technology teams and manage multiple deliverables in parallel.

What you can expect from Morgan Stanley:

We have a track record of innovation and passion for unlocking new opportunities, we help our clients raise, manage and allocate capital. We do this by offering a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and asset management services. All that we do at Morgan Stanley is driven by our five core values: do the right thing, put clients first, lead with exceptional ideas, commit to diversity and inclusion, and give back. These aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day, ensuring we do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees around the world. And at the core of our success are the people who drive it - relentless collaborators and creative thinkers who are fueled by diverse thinking and experiences. Wherever you are in our 1,200 global offices, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are empowered to achieve your full potential. 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. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste into your browser.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

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.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $90,000 and $155,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

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.

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