Associate, Research COO Team

Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

In the Research division, we offer timely, integrated analysis of companies, sectors, markets, and economies, helping clients with their most critical decisions.

What You’ll Do In The Role

Morgan Stanley is seeking an Associate, Research COO Team in New York, New York to support the Research COO team through rigorous analysis and proactive partnership with senior and cross-functional stakeholders.

The Associate will own a significant portion of Research reporting for analysts, management, and partner teams. You will design, enhance, and run performance and business-outcome metrics, ensuring reporting is accurate, scalable, and decision-useful. The role requires a highly data-driven approach, translating complex datasets into clear insights, narratives, and recommendations that influence business decisions.

You will work closely with Research leadership, Sales, Technology, and other internal partners to apply analytics in support of client engagement strategies, business planning, and strategic decision-making. Responsibilities include consolidating data from multiple sources, validating results, synthesizing findings into executive-ready materials, and guiding stakeholders on how to use data effectively in practice.

This role will also gather requirements and manage delivery for management data platforms, automate and streamline reporting and data workflows, and support the execution of strategic initiatives led by the Research COO team. Success in this role requires strong ownership, the ability to move quickly from problem to solution, and confident communication across technical and non-technical audiences. The Associate will collaborate with stakeholders in the U.S. and overseas, balancing independent ownership with a highly collaborative working style. Telecommuting permitted up to 1 day per week.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• 2–3 years of relevant experience in data analytics, data management, COO, consulting, strategy, or related analytical roles
• Strong reporting and analytics ownership: ability to independently drive recurring and ad hoc reporting deliverables end-to-end
• Deep data expertise: advanced ability to clean, structure, validate, and analyze datasets to produce reliable metrics and insights
• Demonstrated ability to identify trends, answer business questions with analytical rigor, and translate analysis into actionable recommendations for a range of stakeholders (including senior leadership)
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, drive timelines, and coordinate across teams in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing cross-functional partners and delivering clear, concise narratives
• Experience with data and reporting tools, including: Excel, Python, SQL, and PowerBI
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, STEM, Computer Science, or a related field

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.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $100,000 and $155,000 per year for Associate, at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

Key skills/competency

• Data analytics
• Reporting ownership
• Business metrics
• Strategic planning
• Project management
• Stakeholder communication
• Client engagement
• Workflow automation
• Insight generation
• Decision support