Finance Business Manager

Team Profile

The Finance Business Management organization is responsible for overall financial, workforce, and vendor management, as well as driving strategic change within Morgan Stanley's Finance division. The team manages multiyear workforce and vendor strategies, responsible for budgeting and financial control, supervises product and service portfolios as well as spearheading transformation efforts. The team initiate, execute, and actively monitors workforce related transactions and vendor management actions in conjunction with vertical and horizontal stakeholders (Sourcing, Department heads, managers, HR, etc.). The team conducts comprehensive governance activities & reviews, maintains data hygiene of primary systems, as well as drives strategy.

What You’ll Do In The Role

• Provide analytical and process support to Departments leadership and deliver excellent customer service through actionable solutions, which enables stakeholders in the organization to evaluate and make strategic decisions, to drive commercial success.
• Financial management: Responsible for financial oversight including budgeting, forecasting, financial performance, identification of potential challenges, allocations, vendor demand, invoicing and accruals, application Total Cost of Ownership and lifecycle management, optimization, and T&E/training.
• Portfolio management: Ensuring that programs and projects reflect the business targets and structure for how the book of work is being delivered, and business and provider targets and allocations.
• Resource management: Responsible for overall resource management including work force strategy execution and scenario planning, hire approvals and tracking, on-boarding and off-boarding resources, contingent worker compliance, space management/planning, staffing hygiene oversight and related activities.
• Organizational governance and other: Responsible for supporting organizational activities including cost center and department structure maintenance, related leadership presentations, and other related activities.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in Finance and/or Business Management
• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Business Administration, Finance, and/or Accounting
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and data analysis packages
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills: ability to communicate with internal and external partners cross-divisionally clearly and concisely.
• Superior relationship management skill to build and maintain solid engagement with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-starter with strong work ethic and ability work without supervision
• Work effectively in cross-functional teams, having demonstrated strong partnerships with both internal and external business partners and alliances.
• Creative problem-solving skills who able to balance multiple priorities in a fast-changing environment.
  
  

At Morgan Stanley Montreal, we support the Firm’s global businesses and infrastructure with cutting edge technology and innovation. The multi-faceted and highly technical Montreal team plays a critical role in building and maintaining our leading technology platform, including electronic trading, algorithm trading, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI/ML. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in the Montreal community since 2008 and is considered a leading employer among the area’s highly skilled technology talent. There’s ample opportunity to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work.

All our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.

Knowledge of French and English is required.

What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.