Chief Impact Assurance & Transformation Leader

State Street Corp; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical insurance

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Performance-based incentives

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

State Street is seeking a senior leader to head Impact Assurance, overseeing the enterprise framework for measuring, validating and reporting transformation benefits. You will challenge business cases, supervise a dedicated team, and work across Finance, Technology, Risk and HR to ensure value realization and corrective actions when needed.

The role requires deep experience in value realization and transformation governance, with strong analytical rigor, executive presence and the ability to

Qualifications

• Substantial leadership experience in value realization, transformation assurance, performance management, portfolio governance, strategy execution, finance transformation or consulting within financial services or another highly regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Own and define the enterprise framework for transformation impact measurement, validation, tracking and reporting.
• Establish common definitions, methodologies and standards across financial, client, operational, productivity, adoption and risk outcomes.
• Define consistent approaches for baselines, target setting, attribution and independent benefits validation.
• Govern impact-assurance methodologies, tools and playbooks, ensuring measures are comparable, transparent and applied consistently.
• Lead independent review and challenge of business cases, assumptions, projected benefits, costs, dependencies and timing.
• Adjudicate double-counting, overlapping claims and benefit-attribution disputes.
• Partner with Finance and senior leaders to strengthen the quality and transparency of investment decisions.
• Advise governance bodies on prioritization, sequencing and reallocation of investment, weighing value, cost, risk, capacity and readiness.
• Convert transformation commitments into measurable targets with accountable owners and agreed validation methods.
• Track value from initial commitment through implementation and steady-state realization.
• Validate financial and non-financial outcomes against approved baselines, targets and evidence.
• Identify value leakage, implementation gaps and adoption shortfalls, maintaining a transparent view of realized, forecast and at-risk benefits.
• Provide independent assessments of transformation impact to executive leadership, steering committees and governance forums.
• Deliver concise, decision-oriented materials on value realization, risks, forecasts and required interventions.
• Lead impact-assurance input into Quarterly Business Reviews and portfolio reviews.
• Enable leadership to redirect investment, capacity and attention based on validated outcomes.
• Identify initiatives underperforming against approved outcomes or where benefit confidence has deteriorated.
• Partner with Transformation Directors, Program Leads, business owners and Finance to determine root causes of impact gaps.
• Recommend corrective actions, revised targets or investment adjustments where warranted.
• Monitor remediation and elevate unresolved value risks, maintaining independence while building constructive partnerships.
• Build enterprise capability in value management, productivity analytics, forecasting and benefits realization.
• Use data, automation and AI-enabled analytics to improve the timeliness, quality and predictive value of insights.
• Lead and develop assurance, analytics and value-management resources, with clear standards and strong succession.
• Partner with Governance and Reporting to integrate validated outcomes into enterprise reporting.

Skills

Value realization

Transformation governance

Financial analysis

Portfolio management

Executive communication

AI enablement

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Excel

Power BI

ERP systems

Job description

State Street is seeking a senior leader to head Impact Assurance, overseeing the enterprise framework for measuring, validating and reporting transformation benefits. You will challenge business cases, supervise a dedicated team, and work across Finance, Technology, Risk and HR to ensure value realization and corrective actions when needed.

The role requires deep experience in value realization and transformation governance, with strong analytical rigor, executive presence and the ability to