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Platforms Business Analyst, Vice President
Morgan Stanley
New York, NY, United States
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Description
Morgan Stanley (“MS”) is a global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments—Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Asset Management. Wealth Management provides comprehensive financial advice and services to its clients including brokerage, investment advisory, financial and wealth planning, credit & lending, deposits & cash management, annuities, insurance, retirement and trust services.
The Platform team works closely with Wealth Management product areas to define and drive the Advisor and Client experience, and we are in search of a talented and eager Business Analyst to join our team.
As a Vice President on the Strategy and Advisory Solutions Platform team, you will work alongside a Platform lead to build the next-generation Wealth Management platform for Morgan Stanley Advisors.
As a smart, passionate, detail-oriented team player who loves interacting with a diverse set of people solving tough problems and challenging the status quo, this is an amazing opportunity to forge a new direction for a highly respected company that is deeply committed to reinventing itself.
Responsibilities include:
• Provide support throughout the entire Platform enhancement lifecycle, from initial scope development, scope and requirements documentation, through Platform testing and launch, to subsequent releases.
• Document overall product feature prioritization, develop user stories, and work within agile teams.
• Participate in platform design and development, and monitor implementation timelines across different product/feature teams.
• Lead discussions and devise solutions to address Advisor/CSA platform pain points.
• Support requirements elicitation workshops and meetings with business and technology stakeholders.
• Elaborate on critical user journeys and use cases that align with the program vision and address critical customer needs.
• Map out critical workflows and business processes to realize product/program goals.
• Support requirement review sessions with program stakeholders.
• Write and update business requirements for platform/product enhancements.
• Assist in gathering, organizing and assimilating internal and external feedback to support the prioritization of product/program gaps, enhancements, and new solutions and features.
• Review and include key business partner feedback into business requirements. Key business partners include Field and Service Ops, Legal, Risk, and Compliance
• Support collaboration with UI/UX team to develop information/interaction architecture, user flows and wireframes.
• Partner with program management to plan and monitor overall product/program releases
• Assist with the development of adequate launch support across non-technology teams, including Field and Service Ops, Legal, Risk, Compliance and Platform teams.
• Specify acceptance criteria and scenarios and perform UAT as needed.
• Track platform adoption and usage metrics.
Qualifications
• At least 6-8 years experience as a key member of a wealth management
home office platform team participating in the development lifecycle of
successfully launched products/platforms
• Experience working with external resources (consulting firms)
• Detail oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Proficient at defining, analyzing, documenting, and communicating product
and software requirements in an agile software development setting.
• Self-starter with entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve
stretch goals in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Polished written and verbal communication skills able to effectively interact
and influence a diverse set of business and technical stakeholders.
• Efficient at managing multiple tasks concurrently under deadline
constraints
• Ability to gather, analyze and synthesize a significant amount of
information, and turn it into a compelling platform vision.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Computer Science,
Engineering, Mathematics or related field is required.
AdditionalRequirement:
Role requires approximately 10% travel for corporate events