Finance Governance Manager at Morgan Stanley

Job description

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 governa