GWSS CRT PMO/ Business Analyst recruitment

Position Category: Corporate Services

Position Title: GWSS CRT PMO/ Business Analyst

Job Level: Director

Location: USA - MD - Baltimore

Education Required: Bachelors Degree

Position Description:
The Global Workforce Strategy Solutions ('GWSS') team is an internal team that helps business units think strategically about HOW (Employee v. Vendor) and WHERE (CBD, Near Shore, Far Shore) their business or operation should be staffed and located. GWSS works with key stakeholders in identifying opportunities in Morgan Stanley's metro sites to transition roles to offshore and near-shore sites and to execute on these plans in the most efficient way, all aligned to the Firm's long term growth strategy.

The GWSS Global Transition Management Team is a project team which focuses on the Firm's Deployment (Off-shoring) Strategy. This group primarily project manages deployments on behalf of the Business Units and Firmwide departments to Morgan Stanley's Alternate Sites, and more recently to 3rd party vendors. These sites include: Glasgow, Budapest, Singapore, Baltimore and Mumbai.

The CRT PMO/ Business Analyst will provide advisory services to Business Units who are completing CRT (an internally developed system) request(s) to initiate a Transition. Responsibilities in a PMO capacity include developing and maintaining project artifacts (timelines, status reports, presentations, agendas, minutes, document repositories, and reporting tools), facilitating meetings for the day-to day running of each Transition, as well as providing advisory services for any issues or queries the teams involved in a Transition may have. Cross divisional interaction is key to ensuring a successful transition.

Skills Required:
• Keen attention to detail.
• Highly organized.
• Ability to work well under pressure and expeditiously.
• Ability to work in well in a team environment as well as an independent contributor.
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of an organization.
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills.
• Ability to identify and recommend process improvements to team management with a view to rolling out across multiple projects.
• Business Analyst/PMO experience and familiarity with industry best practices is required; prior outsourcing / deployment experience is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated technical experience with Sharepoint 2007+, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio and Project.
• Candidates should have experience matrix managing team mates and clients of all levels of seniority.
• Candidates must be able to multi-task, as many projects will run concurrently.
• Transitions generally span multiple regions, and may require meetings and work during off hours to ensure all required teams are adequately represented.
• Legal and Compliance Background a plus.