Real Estate Asia Asset Management Data Analytics, Vice President

Job Description

Job Number:

3258900

Posting Date:

Sep 11, 2024

Primary Location:

Japan-Tokyo

Job

Employment Type: Full Time

Job Level: Vice President

Company Overview:

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”), together with its investment advisory affiliates, has more than 1,400 investment professionals around the world and $1.5 trillion in assets under management or supervision as of March 31, 2024. Morgan Stanley Investment Management strives to provide strong long-term investment performance, outstanding service and a comprehensive suite of investment management solutions to a diverse client base, which includes governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide.

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (“MSREI”) is the global private real estate investment management business of Morgan Stanley. One of the most active property investors in the world for over three decades, MSREI employs a patient, disciplined approach through global value-add/opportunistic and regional core real estate investment strategies. With 17 offices throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, regional teams of dedicated real estate professionals combine a unique global perspective with local presence and significant transaction execution expertise. MSREI currently manages $52 billion of gross real estate assets worldwide on behalf of its clients.

Position Description:

Lead day-to-day asset management data analytics and provide IT solutions for MSREI Asia. Work closely with local investment teams, portfolio management team, financial controllers, and IT vendors (regional and global) to cover various aspects of the region’s data and system (including integration). Lead other strategic initiatives for the Asia platform including the below:

1. Take ownership of existing MSREI Asia IT System and work on real estate data analytics with each stakeholder to consolidate, validate, and deliver performance data outputs to key stakeholders.
2. Identify trends, areas of improvement and efficiently create a uniform centralized database to produce outputs across all MSREI Funds.
3. Project management of ongoing and new IT development and initiatives in Asia, in particular, working closely with asset management, investment controllers and portfolio management teams to facilitate and automate processes with key IT vendors, including prioritizing business needs, scoping out blueprint, leading user testing/rollout and training.
4. Being the coordinator and/or custodian of various funds within MSREI data and analytics, including, but not limited to asset management performance, ESG data, portfolio management analytics, budgeting/business planning process for respective funds, each which will be supported by local and fund teams.
5. Leading weekly calls with key stakeholders to ensure progress and business requirements, support and goals are achieved.
6. Owning key IT Vendor relationships, managing necessary support and drafting/maintaining IT budget by understanding business needs to maximize efficiency.
7. Coordinating with global IT team in consolidating data into global database.
8. Playing a meaningful role in improving global database and asset management practices.
9. Opportunity to provide inputs to improve other parts of operational efficiency.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s Degree or higher.
2. Basic accounting knowledge (higher understanding preferred).
3. At least 6-8 years of relevant full-time working experience at a financial institution or fund/investment manager.
4. Superior command of using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and other software applications.
5. The ability to work as part of a focused team across a larger organization, assume significant responsibility and exercise sound commercial judgment.
6. Strong organizational, time management and communication skills.
7. Superior written and verbal communication skills in English.