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Get Access To All JobsMorgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments - Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management. Morgan Stanley provides comprehensive financial advice and services to its clients including brokerage, investment advisory, financial and wealth planning, credit and lending, deposits and cash management, annuities, insurance, retirement, and trust services.
As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in doing the right thing, putting clients first, leading with exceptional ideas and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, achieve, and grow.
Division Profile:
The WM and U.S. Banks Financial Crimes Risk Team is embedded within the Firm’s business line. It is responsible for identifying, assessing, and escalating potential money laundering and reputational risk issues associated with higher risk client types and higher risk products and services.
The Digital Direct Financial Crimes Risk Team is considered the first line of defense and supports the onboarding, enhanced due diligence, and negative news processes for Morgan Stanley.
Position Summary:
The Digital Direct Financial Crimes Risk Team (FCR) Team is seeking an experienced AVP to provide end-to-end business management support across a broad horizontal scope, including governance, cross-risk coordination, action plan management, and delivery of key initiatives. Program Support coverage areas include E*TRADE Digital Direct, Morgan Stanley at Work, Crypto, CTRs, CIP, Fraud, Sanctions, and Travel Rule.
This role requires a candidate who can operate independently with limited oversight, “hit the ground running,” and build credibility quickly with senior stakeholders across 1L FCR, 2L Global Financial Crimes, Operations, and key business partners.
Business Management & Governance
- Drive day-to-day Program Support coverage across the FCR portfolio (Digital Direct, MS@W, Crypto, CTR/CIP, Fraud, Sanctions, Travel Rule), ensuring consistent execution, escalation, and follow-through.
- Support and coordinate governance forums and senior stakeholder routines; develop agendas, materials, decision logs, and action tracking.
- Lead cross-risk coordination across multiple divisions/stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
- Manage issue and action plan oversight and reporting oversight, including status, risks, blockers, and executive-ready summaries.
- Support ET restriction governance and related controls/documentation.
- Coordinate reporting-related routines and deliverables (including intake, tracking, and stakeholder updates) as part of broader execution management.
- Provide project and delivery management for initiatives supported centrally (including those sponsored by senior leadership).
- Support regulatory responses and remediation efforts, including Regulatory, Senior Management, and Board-level materials and readiness.
- Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities for automation, workflow digitization, and AI/agent enablement.
- Support hands-on delivery: requirements definition, process mapping, testing/UAT coordination, iteration cycles, rollout planning, and adoption tracking.
- Prepare executive support and senior-level presentations and workstreams, including content on key program deliverables, strategy, analytics, and risk/control objectives.
- Develop ongoing communications that quantify impact and provide transparency on progress, risks, and decisions.
Required Skills / Profile:
- At least 5 years of experience in the Financial Services industry.
- Very strong critical thinking skills.
- Proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint for data analysis related tasks.
- While not required, familiarity with the following would be beneficial: VBA, Tableau, Dataiku.
- Strong organizational skills to ensure all reporting and supporting materials are appropriately documented with procedure documents in place for future reference.
- Confidence and comfort operating in high-paced and high-profile environments.
- Demonstrable track record of handling confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
- Ability to research and resolve issues independently while working across teams to acquire information.
- Highly motivated, self-starter that can work autonomously and can independently take initiative.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and collaborate across large organizations.
- First Line Risk & Controls, Compliance or Audit experience.
- Experience in supporting audit and regulatory inquiries and interactions with Board, senior management, consultants.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
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.
New York: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $105K-$140K per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments - Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment Management. Morgan Stanley provides comprehensive financial advice and services to its clients including brokerage, investment advisory, financial and wealth planning, credit and lending, deposits and cash management, annuities, insurance, retirement, and trust services.
As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in doing the right thing, putting clients first, leading with exceptional ideas and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, achieve, and grow.
Division Profile:
The WM and U.S. Banks Financial Crimes Risk Team is embedded within the Firm’s business line. It is responsible for identifying, assessing, and escalating potential money laundering and reputational risk issues associated with higher risk client types and higher risk products and services.
The Digital Direct Financial Crimes Risk Team is considered the first line of defense and supports the onboarding, enhanced due diligence, and negative news processes for Morgan Stanley.
Position Summary:
The Digital Direct Financial Crimes Risk Team (FCR) Team is seeking an experienced AVP to provide end-to-end business management support across a broad horizontal scope, including governance, cross-risk coordination, action plan management, and delivery of key initiatives. Program Support coverage areas include E*TRADE Digital Direct, Morgan Stanley at Work, Crypto, CTRs, CIP, Fraud, Sanctions, and Travel Rule.
This role requires a candidate who can operate independently with limited oversight, “hit the ground running,” and build credibility quickly with senior stakeholders across 1L FCR, 2L Global Financial Crimes, Operations, and key business partners.
Business Management & Governance
- Drive day-to-day Program Support coverage across the FCR portfolio (Digital Direct, MS@W, Crypto, CTR/CIP, Fraud, Sanctions, Travel Rule), ensuring consistent execution, escalation, and follow-through.
- Support and coordinate governance forums and senior stakeholder routines; develop agendas, materials, decision logs, and action tracking.
- Lead cross-risk coordination across multiple divisions/stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
- Manage issue and action plan oversight and reporting oversight, including status, risks, blockers, and executive-ready summaries.
- Support ET restriction governance and related controls/documentation.
- Coordinate reporting-related routines and deliverables (including intake, tracking, and stakeholder updates) as part of broader execution management.
- Provide project and delivery management for initiatives supported centrally (including those sponsored by senior leadership).
- Support regulatory responses and remediation efforts, including Regulatory, Senior Management, and Board-level materials and readiness.
- Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities for automation, workflow digitization, and AI/agent enablement.
- Support hands-on delivery: requirements definition, process mapping, testing/UAT coordination, iteration cycles, rollout planning, and adoption tracking.
- Prepare executive support and senior-level presentations and workstreams, including content on key program deliverables, strategy, analytics, and risk/control objectives.
- Develop ongoing communications that quantify impact and provide transparency on progress, risks, and decisions.
Required Skills / Profile:
- At least 5 years of experience in the Financial Services industry.
- Very strong critical thinking skills.
- Proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint for data analysis related tasks.
- While not required, familiarity with the following would be beneficial: VBA, Tableau, Dataiku.
- Strong organizational skills to ensure all reporting and supporting materials are appropriately documented with procedure documents in place for future reference.
- Confidence and comfort operating in high-paced and high-profile environments.
- Demonstrable track record of handling confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
- Ability to research and resolve issues independently while working across teams to acquire information.
- Highly motivated, self-starter that can work autonomously and can independently take initiative.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and collaborate across large organizations.
- First Line Risk & Controls, Compliance or Audit experience.
- Experience in supporting audit and regulatory inquiries and interactions with Board, senior management, consultants.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
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.
New York: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $105K-$140K per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Assistant Vice President Jobs
Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
AVP roles must meet the specialty occupation definition: a position requiring at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. Pull your O*NET occupation profile for your specific AVP function to confirm the degree requirement employers and consular officers will apply.
Target employers with existing H-1B1 filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter AVP-level roles by employers who have previously filed H-1B1 visa or H-1B Labor Condition Applications, signaling they already understand the Singapore FTA pathway and won't need to be educated during negotiations.
Request LCA certification before your visa appointment
Your employer files the Labor Condition Application with DOL before you can proceed. Confirm the LCA is certified and covers your exact job title, worksite location, and prevailing wage level so your consular interview isn't delayed by a documentation mismatch.
Verify your prevailing wage tier matches your seniority
AVP roles typically map to wage Level III or IV in the OFLC Wage Search. If your offer falls below the certified prevailing wage, DOL can reject the LCA. Check the relevant SOC code and metropolitan area before your employer files.
Prepare for consulate questions about nonimmigrant intent
Unlike H-1B, the H-1B1 does not allow dual intent, meaning you must demonstrate intent to return to Singapore. Bring documentation of ongoing ties: property, family, professional registrations, or a clear repatriation plan that satisfies the consular officer.
Secure a two-year validity period and plan your renewal sequence
H-1B1 visas are granted in one-year increments but you can request two-year extensions. Coordinate renewal timing with your employer so the next LCA certification is filed well before your current authorized stay expires to avoid any gap in work authorization.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Assistant Vice President roles qualify as specialty occupations for the H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes, provided the position genuinely requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific related field such as finance, economics, engineering, or computer science. Generic management titles that accept any degree may face scrutiny. Your employer's LCA filing must reflect the specific degree requirement, and your credentials must match the stated field.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from the H-1B for an AVP-level hire?
The H-1B1 has no lottery and a separate 5,400-annual cap that rarely fills, so Singaporean professionals can apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore without waiting for a random selection round. Processing goes through the consulate rather than USCIS, which removes the petition stage entirely and typically results in a faster, more predictable timeline for both you and your employer.
Where can I find AVP roles where employers already sponsor H-1B1 Singapore visas?
Migrate Mate lists AVP-level positions filtered by employers with verified H-1B1 and H-1B Labor Condition Application filing history, so you can identify companies that have already navigated the process. This saves time during negotiations because the employer's HR and legal teams already understand the Singapore FTA pathway requirements.
Can my employer file an H-1B1 sponsorship application while I am already in the United States?
The H-1B1 is a consular-processed visa, meaning it is issued at a U.S. Embassy or consulate outside the country rather than through a USCIS change-of-status petition. If you are already in the U.S. in another valid nonimmigrant status, your employer still files the LCA with DOL, but you will generally need to attend your visa interview at the Embassy in Singapore to receive the H-1B1 stamp.
What should I bring to the U.S. Embassy interview for an AVP H-1B1 sponsorship application?
Bring the certified LCA, your employer's offer letter or employment contract specifying your AVP title and compensation, academic transcripts and degree certificates confirming your qualifying field, your DS-160 confirmation, and documentation of Singapore ties demonstrating nonimmigrant intent. For roles in regulated industries such as financial services, a professional license or CFA credential can also strengthen your application.
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