Morgan Stanley India | Governance & Financial Control, Vice President, Business Unit Management

What you'll do in the role

• We're seeking someone to join our team as a Vice President, Governance & Financial Control to oversee governance, monitoring, reporting, and financial control for Corporate Services spend within Business Services & Management's Independent Governance & Financial Control function.
• The role is responsible for end-to-end invoice, accrual, allocation, and vendor governance, operating within established policies and thresholds.
• Execute and maintain independent expense-control governance, including policies, standards, decision rights, evidence requirements, and audit readiness.
• Oversee invoice, accrual, allocation, vendor, and operational controls, including billing recovery, SLA compliance, utilization, payment aging, and exception remediation.
• Lead major vendor reviews and process improvements, embedding stronger SLAs, automation, and governance into business-as-usual operations.
• Partner with Technology, Finance, Sourcing, Service Owners, and process-optimization teams to translate control requirements into reporting and automation solutions while protecting data integrity.
• Provide independent challenge and governance reporting, driving issue resolution, continuous improvement, centralized exception management, and knowledge transfer across the CS governance function.
• Define and govern MIS requirements, KPIs, thresholds, dashboards, and reporting standards to provide leadership and OpCos with visibility into control health, savings, and exceptions

What you'll bring to the role

• Typically, 8+ years of experience in financial governance, commercial or cost controls, or expense management within a global financial institution.
• Experience with vendor billing, reconciliations, accruals, cost allocations, internal audits, and evidence-based financial controls.
• Demonstrated experience establishing control frameworks, thresholds, exception logs, and audit processes.
• Experience defining management-information requirements and partnering with technology teams on dashboards and data pipelines.
• Strong management-reporting, cost-analysis, process-optimization, vendor-governance, SLA, and utilization-analysis capabilities.
• Ability to influence Sourcing, Finance, Service Owners, and regional teams while maintaining independence from the functions being governed.
• Experience leading a small control team; experience within a shared-services or Center of Excellence environment is preferred.
• Experience with automation, AI, and workflow tools; travel-services expertise is considered an advantage.

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm founded in New York in 1935, known for investment banking, sales and trading, wealth management and investment management.

Its teams in India support the firm's global businesses. For chartered accountants this means corporate controllers, external reporting, regulatory reporting, tax and risk roles.

• Industry: Investment banking, wealth and investment management
• Headquarters: New York, USA
• In India: Teams in Mumbai and Bengaluru supporting global businesses