Oversee daily health checks, continuity controls, and performance monitoring for FIRCO Name and Transaction Screening platforms. Maintain configuration libraries, watchlists, hotlists, and filter settings to ensure consistency and integrity across regions. Conduct root-cause analysis of system failures, stoppages, latency issues, and false positive spikes. Ensure sanctions screening coverage is monitored and reported upon, and is line with the Firms risk appetite and that any gaps are identified, logged and escalated. Support development, testing, and deployment of screening rules and filter logic to enhance detection and reduce noise. Manage test data creation (fudge data), scenario validation, and regression testing (mirroring processes in rule-writing and sanctions model oversight). Prepare summaries, status reporting, and thematic issue logs for senior management and governance forums; Retain governance documentation to support audits, regulatory examinations, and internal assurance reviews. Partner with GFC SMEs, Sanctions Compliance, AML IT, Operations, and Business Units for continuity planning, system enhancement, and change the bank activities. Manage an effective team of functional specialists overseeing the ongoing maintenance of the Firco tool. 7 years of experience in sanctions screening, AML screening operations, filtering systems (e.g., FIRCO Continuity/Trust), or broader financial crime technology roles. Experience of List Management / List testing initiatives - involving sanctions regulatory lists (e.g., OFAC / UN / EU etc.,) as well as company specific / internal lists. Experience conducting or overseeing system testing and tuning in a financial institution. Background in due diligence, corporate intelligence, or KYC/AML preferred Strong understanding of sanctions programs (OFAC, OFSI, EU, UN) and AML/KYC principles. Familiarity with screening models, fuzzy matching algorithms, configuration and data quality controls. Proficiency with SQL, Excel, Fircosoft FMM & FML tools (or similar) and analysis of large datasets. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to produce clear summaries for senior stakeholders. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across regions and business units. High attention to detail and structured approach to documentation. 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. 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. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser. 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.
