ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

ABOUT PARAMETRIC Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 2-3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

General Description

The Business Continuity and Resilience (BC&R) Program Analyst is responsible to support and maintain the Firm’s strong resilience and continuity of operations posture. The role provides oversight, is responsible to execute developed strategy of the program, and will work to ensure all annual enhancements and lifecycle assignments are sufficiently maintained across the organization. This role encompasses business continuity, disaster recovery, third-party resilience, and incident management at Parametric. This position will facilitate the development and maintenance of the third-party vendor management program, policy, and procedures. Additionally, the role provides governance, guidance, and oversight of the enterprise-wide third-party management program. The Program Analyst works at the discretion of the BC&R Executive Director to implement tools and program components to enhance and maintain Firmwide resiliency.

Primary Responsibilities**

– Responsible for managing vendor relationships across the vendor lifecycle phases

– Provides support and executes strategy in the coordination, execution process, to ensure robust BCP, DRP, IMP, and third-party vendor risk management exercises are well-executed and tested throughout the lifecycle process

– Manages and supports the coordination, execution process, and ensures robust BCP, DRP, IMP, and third-party vendor risk management exercises are well-executed and tested throughout the lifecycle process

– Supports the development and maintenance of the third-party vendor management program and policy

– Familiar with and ensures governance and oversight of the enterprise-wide third-party management program are adhered to and that vendors and applications are onboarded, contracted, and managed according to third-party risk management policy

– Coordinates audit and compliance requests to ensure vendor(s) meet and maintain standards

– Lead vendor resolution, activities, inquiries, incidents, service requests, and escalation during an incident/outage

– Build, support, and implement the development of vendor SLAs; Document and track SLAs and SLOs (Objectives) for third party services; Assess contractual SLAs and determine adequacy; develop SLAs, as required

– Identifies opportunities for strategic Firmwide improvements; thus, reducing likelihood of business disruption

– Knowledgeable in Fusion Risk Management – supports all annual enhancement processes in updating the tool

– Assists in the facilitation of all annual updates and maintenance processes of BC&R functions

– Contributes to annual Business Impact Analysis (BIA) review and enhancement lifecycle process

– Identifies opportunities for strategic improvements that reduce the likelihood of vendor service interruptions

– Work closely with vendor stakeholders to ensure required artifacts for vendors, such as vendor onboarding process, ongoing monitoring artifacts, vendor business reviews, vendor scorecards, etc.

Job Requirements

– Bachelor’s degree with preference in business continuity and resilience or emergency management

– At least 2-4 years’ experience in Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, or another relevant discipline

– Previous work at a financial services organization or another similar industry

– Familiarity with business continuity, disaster recovery and technical data centers processes

– Expert in Fusion Risk Management or other industry Planning systems and applications

– Well organized with the ability to independently manage deliverables and meet deadlines

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

Salary range for the position: $70,000 - $150,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

Job: *Technology

Title: Business Continuity & Resilience Program Analyst - Parametric

Location: Washington-Seattle

Requisition ID: 3249232

Other Locations: Americas-United States of America-Georgia-Alpharetta, Americas-United States of America-Massachusetts-Boston