Morgan Stanley—Expense Management and Governance, Associate, Business Unit Management

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Description: We're seeking someone to join our team as an Expense Analyst to support expense tracking, financial reporting, invoice operations, and data management within Corporate Services. The role will help maintain accurate reporting, support financial reconciliations, and use automation tools to improve the efficiency and scalability of expense-management processes. In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business. This is an Associate level position within the Business Unit Management, which performs business management/CAO functions such as headcount management, financials, people processes, executive communications, and strategic support. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world. What you'll do in the role: - Support daily expense tracking, reporting, and ad hoc analysis, maintaining accuracy and consistency across tools and trackers. Assist with financial reconciliations, including analysis of actual expenses against forecasts - Support the invoice lifecycle, including review, validation, payment submission, aging monitoring, and discrepancy resolution - Maintain vendor-spend and invoice-status trackers, escalating delays, errors, or risks affecting payment and reporting - Use Copilot, Excel automation, and other AI tools to streamline reporting, clean and classify data, identify trends, and generate spend insights - Maintain and improve trackers, templates, workflows, datasets, and process documentation to strengthen efficiency, data quality, and handoffs What you'll bring to the role: - Bachelor's degree - 2+ years of experience in finance, operations, or business management - Experience working with data, reporting, or invoices - Strong Excel skills, including data manipulation, basic formulas, and tracking - Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, execution-focused environment - Exposure to expense management, procurement, invoice processing, large datasets, or financial systems is preferred - Experience with AI or automation tools, including Copilot, Excel functions, or basic Power BI capabilities, is preferred - Experience working with global teams or stakeholders is preferred. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY: At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. 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. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.