Portfolio Accounting & Recordkeeping_Director_Core Services

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.

In the Operations division, we partner with business units across the Firm to support financial transactions, devise and implement effective controls and develop client relationships. This is a Team Manager position at Director level within the Core Services, which is responsible for performing and managing product-agnostic and centralized operational services across several businesses and products

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:

• 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 Engineering team to develop and refine data anomaly detection and mitigation strategies to prevent impact to MSIM books and records.
• Document, maintain, and oversee adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Ongoing business process improvement leveraging automation with low code tooling. > 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
• Experience working with, and accounting for, derivatives and synthetic exposures (e.g., Bank Loans).
• Experience functioning in a team lead and/or team mentor capacity.
• Automation first mindset. Experience with implementing process improvements and transformation