Internal Audit Director - Audit Practices Group

Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced Audit Professional to join the Audit Practices Group (APG) as a Director within the Internal Audit Department. APG is responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing the department's audit methodology, supporting audit teams globally, and driving strategic initiatives that strengthen audit quality, consistency, and effectiveness. This role is well-suited for individuals with a strong foundation in internal audit and a passion for methodology, process improvement, innovation, training, and regulatory engagement. The successful candidate will work closely with audit teams, department leadership, and key stakeholders to support the continued evolution of the Internal Audit function and to help shape how assurance is delivered in the future.

The Internal Audit Division (IAD) drives attention and resources to vulnerabilities by providing an independent and well-informed view and impactful messages about the most important risks facing our Firm. This is accomplished by performing a range of assurance activities to independently assess the quality and effectiveness of Morgan Stanley’s system of internal control, including risk management and governance systems and processes. IAD serves as an objective and independent function within the Firm’s risk management framework to foster continual improvement of risk management processes. This is a Director level position within Internal Operations and Quality Control, which is responsible for efficient and effective functioning of the department, supporting the ultimate delivery of high-quality assurance services as the profession, our risk landscape, and available technology continue to change.

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.

Location: New York, NY (4x per week in office)

What you’ll do in the role

• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance and ongoing modernization of the department’s internal audit methodology, guidance, and related tools, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize, and incorporate data-driven and AI-enabled approaches.
• Provide advisory support to audit teams on methodology-related matters throughout the audit lifecycle, including risk assessment, planning, execution, reporting, and continuous monitoring.
• Assist in the design, preparation, and delivery of audit methodology training and communications across the Internal Audit Department, building colleagues’ capability with new tools, data techniques, and ways of working as the methodology evolves.
• Contribute responses to regulatory inquiries, examinations, and requests for information, anticipating emerging regulatory themes and using them to inform methodology enhancements.
• Support strategic initiatives and transformation efforts aimed at enhancing audit quality, consistency, efficiency, and regulatory alignment, turning promising ideas into practical, scalable changes that can be adopted consistently across global audit teams.
• Monitor industry developments, emerging technologies, professional standards, and regulatory expectations, and proactively evaluate their impact and the opportunities they create for Internal Audit practices.
• Participate in methodology reviews and continuous improvement efforts based on audit team feedback, quality assurance results, and regulatory observations, looking for patterns and opportunities others may overlook and piloting and refining improvements before broader rollout.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Internal Audit and other control functions on department-wide initiatives and projects in a clear, timely and structured manner.
• Assist in managing multiple deliverables in line with team priorities.
• Solicit and provide feedback and participate in formal and on-the-job training to further develop self and peers, learning quickly and adapting to new tools, priorities and ideas.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Minimum of 4 years of internal audit experience, preferably within the financial services industry.
• Strong understanding of audit principles, methodology, tools and processes (e.g., risk assessments, planning, testing, reporting and continuous monitoring).
• Ability to identify and analyze complex information from multiple data sources to inform a point of view and translate it into practical, actionable guidance.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously and to carry ideas from concept through to implementation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences and to influence and build support for change.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing, maintaining, or enhancing audit methodologies, policies, standards, or procedures, including the introduction of new or improved ways of working.
• Exposure to applying or piloting data analytics, automation, or AI in audit processes.
• Experience designing or delivering training programs.
• Professional certification such as CPA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent.
• Ability to ask meaningful questions, constructively challenge assumptions, understand various viewpoints and adapt messaging accordingly.
• A track record of learning quickly, adapting to change, and helping colleagues do the same.
• A commitment to practicing inclusive behaviors.

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.

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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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