Global CFO, Operations & Technology Transformation

State Street Corporation; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 338,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive health insurance

Paid time off & disability benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

State Street Corporation is seeking an exceptional finance executive to serve as Chief Financial Officer for the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Organization. This senior finance partner will guide strategic financial leadership across global operations, technology, data, cybersecurity, and enterprise infrastructure, influencing the firm’s operating model and transformation agenda.

The role reports to the Global Head of Strategic Finance with a dual reporting relationship to the Enterprise COO,

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience within large, global, complex organizations.
• Significant experience supporting technology, operations, infrastructure, or technology-enabled businesses.
• Deep expertise in FP&A, strategic finance, investment governance, capital allocation, and performance management.
• Demonstrated technology finance experience supporting product, engineering, cloud, infrastructure, software, platform, or technology organizations.
• Strong knowledge of governance, risk management, controls, and regulatory environments.
• Experience advising C-suite executives and presenting to Boards and senior leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance advisor to the Enterprise COO and leadership team.
• Shape financial strategy across operations, technology, data, cybersecurity, resiliency, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Provide rigorous financial analysis, strategic insight, and constructive challenge on major business decisions.
• Influence investment priorities, organizational design, workforce strategy, vendor management, and capital deployment.
• Balance growth, innovation, risk management, operational resilience, and financial discipline.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, workforce planning, and financial reporting across COO-aligned organizations.
• Establish enterprise-wide performance measures and management frameworks that improve transparency, accountability, and decision-making.
• Drive productivity, efficiency, and operating leverage initiatives across global operations and technology functions.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and scale critical enterprise capabilities.
• Provide financial leadership for enterprise technology investments, including data, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure platforms.
• Drive investment governance, business-case development, capital allocation, and benefits realization.
• Develop financial frameworks covering platform economics, cloud consumption, engineering productivity, software lifecycle investments, and technology unit costs.
• Enhance transparency around investment outcomes, run versus change spend, vendor economics, and technology cost drivers.
• Partner with operations leaders to improve service delivery, capacity management, process efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
• Develop enterprise benchmarks and service economics that support better business decisions.
• Connect financial outcomes to client growth, transaction volumes, operational complexity, control requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Support evolution of a unified "One State Street" operating model.
• Prepare decision-ready analyses and recommendations for executive leadership, Board committees, and governance forums.
• Partner closely with the Enterprise CFO, Enterprise COO, CIO, business-line CFOs, and senior operating leaders.

Skills

Strategic finance leadership

Executive communication

Technology fluency

Analytical rigor

Stakeholder management

Matrix leadership

Regulatory awareness

Tools

FP&A tools

Capital planning tools

Job description

State Street Corporation is seeking an exceptional finance executive to serve as Chief Financial Officer for the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Organization. This senior finance partner will guide strategic financial leadership across global operations, technology, data, cybersecurity, and enterprise infrastructure, influencing the firm’s operating model and transformation agenda.

The role reports to the Global Head of Strategic Finance with a dual reporting relationship to the Enterprise COO,