Morgan Stanley - The Organisation

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm with a market capitalisation of approximately $30Billion. Morgan Stanley has over 600 offices in 37 countries with approximately 50,000 employees world-wide including approximately 7,000 in 16 European, Middle East and African (EMEA) countries.


Overview of Internal Audit

Within Morgan Stanley, Internal Audit is responsible for apprising the Audit Committee and senior management on the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control environment.

The global Internal Audit Department (IAD) within Morgan Stanley comprises approximately 210 professional staff. IAD provides audit assurances services for the following:

• Global Wealth Management
• Asset Management
• Corporate Functions
• Institutional Securities
- Equity
- Fixed Income
- Investment Banking
• Information Technology

The EMEA Internal Audit team comprises approximately 50 professional staff (which are part of the 210 listed above), of which 15 are IT Auditors.


Job Overview, Duties, and Responsibilities

The position focuses on understanding, analyzing, and reviewing application controls supporting the Firm business and product areas. Audit reviews cover areas including: application processing integrity, data analysis, functional reviews, access and entitlements review, application support and operations, system resilience and special projects. The role will provide significant variety and potential for technical and professional development across an unrivalled product breadth.

Skills Required:

Key Skills and Experience / Qualifications

We seek individuals with relevant IT audit experience, preferably from the financial service sector or from a big 4 environment.

Required skills include:
• Understanding of audit objectives and concepts, e.g., risk and control assessment.
• Experienced in conducting application reviews
• Worked closely with financial auditors
• Enjoys a good relationship with both business unit and IT auditees
• Requires minimal supervision in conducting audits
• Ability to design and execute effective audit testing
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, in particular related to audit practices, e.g. client interviewing, drafting of audit issues and presentation of audit results.

Additional qualifications / knowledge that would be favourably looked upon:

• Degree (preferably a technical/IT related degree)
• IT Audit/Security related professional certifications (CISA, CISM, etc.)
• Accounting skills/background and related professional certifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, etc.)
• Understanding of control frameworks, e.g. COBIT, ITIL, ISO17799, COSO, CMMI, COCO.

In summary we are looking for an individual who is: self-motivated, able to creatively resolve challenging issues, works towards team goals, and strives to bring innovative ideas within a progressive environment.