Operations Director/AVP - Portfolio Accounting

We are seeking an experienced and detailed-oriented Portfolio Accounting & Recordkeeping, Director to support and evolve a best-in-class Portfolio Accounting function.

This role will be responsible to ensure accurate, timely, and globally consistent portfolio accounting, valuation, and production of the official investment/performance book and record.

This role sits within the Public Markets Middle Office and is pivotal to ensuring data accuracy, transparency, and operational readiness across the firm's investment operations in support of MSIM clients, investment teams and traders, reporting teams and other essential uses of middle office operations data.

As the Portfolio Recordkeeping Director, you would be responsible for the daily execution of accounting and recordkeeping processes across various investment strategies and asset classes. This role will be part of a global team in a follow the sun model, ensuring the integrity of the MSIM's start of day, end of day, and period close books and records.

This role will support the Portfolio Accounting & Recordkeeping Vice President in implementing business process and deliver high-quality, ready for business data to enable front-to-back operational processes, investment analytics, regulatory compliance, and a best-in-class client experience.

Key Responsibilities:
> Produce and publish the official Aladdin Portfolio Asset Value on a monthly, in accordance with client and reporting SLAs, including performing all Quality Control (QC) checks to finalize and close the books.
> Manage daily portfolio accounting and recordkeeping process, ensuring all transaction (trades, income, accruals, corporate actions) and positions are processed timely, completely, and accurately.
> Support standardization and documentation of operational procedures across portfolios and asset classes.
> Ensure complete, accurate, and timely start of day positions to support investment process, including start of day cash and projected cash to support investment teams.
> Act as a point of escalation for team analysts, in helping to research and resolve exceptions cross-functionally to the accounting books of record (start of day, end of day, and period close) within established SLAs.
> Provide support and expertise on tax lot accounting principles, particularly for tax-managed portfolios, to enable accurate tax reporting and performance attribution.
> Provie subject matter support for Aladdin Accounting transaction, position, and valuation data.
> Capture key metrics to help drive effective management of the day-to-day operations.
> Actively partner with Data Quality and Engineer

What you'll bring to the role:

> BS/BA degree required.
> A minimum of 7 years of related experience, preferably in asset management with experience working in portfolio or fund accounting.
> Experience across a broad spectrum of portfolio types: Separately Managed, Sub-advised, Funds (e.g. Mutual Fund, OIEC, etc..).
> Experience with middle office operations including but not limited to trade settlement, IBOR/ABOR, transaction lifecycle events across spectrum of asset class (equity, fixed, derivatives), cash and position reconciliation, performance reporting.
> Experience with accounting systems; preferably Aladdin
> Experience with tax managed strategies is a plus

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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