# Associate, MSIM Asia COO Office

**Company**: Morgan Stanley
**Location**: Hong Kong
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Morgan Stanley Investment Management ("MSIM") is seeking an Associate to join the MSIM Asia COO Office in Hong Kong. The role involves supporting MSIM's expansion of investment opportunities for employees in Asia across its Alternatives Platform and assisting the team on the delivery of strategic business management, operational execution, and organizational initiatives across the region.

**Primary Responsibilities**

**Employee Investing Programs**

- Assist MSIM with the design and development of a scalable employee investing program, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, employee engagement goals, and licensed regulatory standards in key Asia jurisdictions.

- Coordinate employee participation processes, including content creation, investor onboarding, communications, reporting, and program lifecycle management.

- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Investor Services, and business stakeholders to ensure adherence to Firm policies and regulatory requirements.

- Coordinate across regional and global stakeholders to support platform growth and integration.

- Maintain program documentation, controls, governance frameworks, and operating procedures.

- Prepare management reporting, program metrics, and materials for governance committees and senior management.

- Assist with audits, reviews, and control assessments related to employee investment activities.

- Identify opportunities to enhance processes, controls, and participant experience.

**MSIM Asia COO Office**

- Support the MSIM Asia COO Office on the delivery and execution of strategic, operational, and organizational priorities across the region.

- Support private fund governance related activities for existing and new private funds in Asia.

- Coordinate cross-functional projects and facilitate collaboration across business and support functions.

- Assist in resource planning, organizing events and training, and take up ad-hoc administrative tasks relating to the MSIM Asia COO Office.

- Drive process improvement and operational efficiency initiatives across the organization via the use of AI and other automation tools.

**Qualifications, Skills & Requirements**

- 4–6 years of relevant experience in fund sales, alternatives platform, product strategy, COO office or investor services role.

- Must be a current Hong Kong SFC Type 1 Licensed Representative in good standing.

- Strong understanding of investment program design, product development or platform operations preferred.

- Strong analytical, project management and organizational skills.

- Ability to work effectively across multiple functions, manage complex processes and completing deadlines.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics or related discipline.

- Fluency in English required; Mandarin language skills a bonus.

- Exposure to or willingness to learn to apply AI efficiencies to business processes.

## Skills

### Required
- investment management
- alternatives platform
- project management
- stakeholder management
- analytical skills
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- AI
- automation tools
- Mandarin language

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