Description
We're seeking a Finance Business Partner to join our Hong Kong team in Infrastructure Finance. You will be responsible for financial and business management oversight of the Infrastructure divisions, understanding Infrastructure allocations to business units, and working closely with Infrastructure stakeholders and division COO offices to review financial performance, analyze trends, and provide forward-looking insights.
In the Finance division, we act as a partner to business units by providing management, review, analysis, and advisory services of the financial and capital resources. This is an associate-level position within Infrastructure Financial Planning & Analysis Job Family, which performs business partnership overseeing infrastructure expenses, headcount, and allocation accuracy.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with a varied group of colleagues in Finance and across the Firm.
- Adhere to the Firm's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls; proactively identify ways to reduce risk in work.
- Act as a culture carrier; embody and set an example of the Firm's values and hold yourself and others accountable to Firm standards.
- Partner with Infrastructure divisions overseeing and validating expenses, headcount, and allocation accuracy.
- Collaborate with Corporate Services to support corporate real estate strategy planning and initiatives across the Asia region.
- Maintain and oversee corporate real estate and infrastructure budgets, forecasts, estimates, and align with business priorities.
- Drive transparency and informed decision-making across non-compensation expense categories.
- Perform detailed variance analysis and financial reviews to identify risks, opportunities, and optimization levers.
- Provide senior management with relevant information and analysis in executive format to drive important decision-making.
- Manage initiatives to improve Business Management process improvements to drive efficiencies.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools, including Microsoft Copilot, to identify, design, and deliver scalable process improvements and operational optimizations.
Requirements:
- In-depth knowledge of Finance functional area, product and/or client segment, and technical skills, as well as of industry and competitive environment.
- Ability to operate independently with respect to most job responsibilities.
- Ability to work autonomously and under pressure, and are a self-starter, willing to take ownership and accountability.
- Ability to provide positive and constructive feedback and innovate processes.
- Thorough understanding of GAAP Accounting principles such as lease accounting and accrual basis accounting.
- Experience with financial budgeting & planning.
- Demonstrated ability to create concise and cogent management reporting.
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint, including Pivot Tables, lookups, formulas, data manipulation, data presentation, and AI tools (Co-pilot).
- Relevant experience in FP&A, Accounting, and/or Business Management, preferably in the Financial Services sector, with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, and/or Business Administration.
Benefits:
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.