Nicole Fitzsimmons Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Analyze effectiveness and competitiveness of existing compensation programs, including specialized compensation plans, and model potential impact of alternative solutionsContinually review associate compensation and recommend opportunities and areas for investmentInvestigate associate pay inequities and propose solution to ensure internal alignmentPartner with HR to manage merit, cash bonus, and long-term equity awards during year-end process and reconcile corresponding compensation budgets Model merit matrices to ensure adherence to financial budget while differentiating for performance Led the compensation benchmarking process for associates on variable compensation plans to inform pay strategy changes and ensure market competitivenessProvide support to other team members on compensation-related initiatives and projects as needed

New York, Ny, Us

Supported Wealth Management home officeManaged the year-end compensation process for 1,100+ employees including compensation pool management and affirming accurate deferred compensationCreated and automated reports to eliminate manual work such as the monthly forecasting and accrual processes leading to greater efficiency and more accurate compensation accrualsEnhanced the budget process by ensuring consistency across the Wealth Management compensation team and eliminating inefficiencies and erroneous data to reduce error as well as create a quarterly view of the budget to have more transparency of business movement predicted throughout the yearReconciled monthly headcount and compensation differences to understand movement within the businessCreated summaries of compensation plans so both team members and clients could easily reference key metrics and detailsMember of year-end committee, a team with select members across all Morgan Stanley Compensation & Analytics Business Unit teams charged with improving and documenting year-end tools and processes

New York, Ny, Us

Supported Investment Management

New York, Ny, Us

Managed the year-end bonus pools for 700+ employees for the Investment Management Global Equity, Fixed Income, Risk, and Liquidity businesses Teamed with Controllers and Corporate Compensation on monthly compensation and headcount forecasting processes to ensure the accurate accrual of all fixed and variable compensation expenses to the FirmLed the compensation benchmarking process for 1,200 Investment Management employees, partnering with senior business leaders and HR generalists to align each employee to applicable levels and functions for the purpose of market data analysis measuring competitive pay practicesCreated customized compensation sheets for teams on revenue share agreements, simplifying both the workflow for compensation decision makers and the sign-off process for senior managementAutomated 10+ manual monthly reports which cut reporting time down from several days to hours

New York, Ny, Us

Led the year-end promotion process for 2,000+ Investment Management, Operations and Technology employees, creating presentations and analytics for senior management promotion roundtable discussions Facilitated the year-end compensation process for 1,000+ Operations and Technology employeesPresented Morgan Stanley fundamental compensation processes and calculations to HR generalists, helping them gain an in-depth understandingProvided HR analytics related to the sale of Van Kampen Investments to InvescoDocumented monthly compensation reporting to the Firm

New York, Ny, Us

Graduated from the 2007 HR analyst class – completed a two week educational program, multiple education courses through the year and presented a final project to HR senior management focused on improving the termination process globallyResponsible for the global reporting/analysis needs of clients, including scheduled and ad-hoc reporting and analysis on human capital statistics (diversity, retention, hiring and headcount)

B.B.A., Human Resource Management

B.B.A., Human Resource Management