Payments Risk & Resiliency Leader — BAU Strategy

State Street; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K retirement plan

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Job summary

State Street is seeking a strategic leader to drive the Payments Risk and Resiliency Programs across anomaly detection, traceability, and SWIFT resiliency. You will align business and technology delivery, govern across workstreams, and set the transition path from project to ongoing BAU operations.

You will own the integrated delivery plan, report to executives, manage risks and dependencies, and lead cross-functional engagements with Operations, Technology, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, technology, risk or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant financial services experience, including senior programme or change leadership.
• Experience leading multi-workstream payment or operational resilience programmes is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated business delivery plan, scope, roadmap, governance and executive reporting across the three Payments Risk and Resiliency workstreams.
• Translate the programme charter and business requirements into prioritized deliverables, accountable owners, milestones, dependencies and measurable outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional engagement across Payments Operations, Technology, Cybersecurity, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, Client Service, Finance and SWIFT stakeholders.
• Direct the business analysis approach, ensuring requirements, process maps, operating model decisions, controls, user stories and acceptance criteria are complete and traceable.
• Oversee anomaly detection implementation, including operating model design and implementation, rule management, data requirements, case management, explainability, exception handling, approval controls, testing and production readiness.
• Oversee payment traceability delivery, including application inventory, lifecycle-event mapping, payment identifier correlation, exception visibility, access controls and client-safe status design.
• Coordinate SWIFT resilience planning, readiness, governance decisions, test strategy, adoption planning and alignment with the anomaly and traceability workstreams.
• Establish the Anomaly Detection target operating model, resourcing, training, procedures, service measures, control framework, and transition plan to BAU, assuming ongoing ownership and management of the function following implementation.
• Manage delivery risks, funding and resource dependencies, escalating decisions and issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Align anomaly detection and cyber-response processes so suspicious or incorrect payment activity is triaged effectively during resilience events.
• Represent the programme at steering committees and senior forums using concise, evidence-based reporting.

Skills

Senior leadership

Payments risk & resiliency

Governance

Stakeholder influence

End-to-end payment flows

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, technology, risk

Job description

State Street is seeking a strategic leader to drive the Payments Risk and Resiliency Programs across anomaly detection, traceability, and SWIFT resiliency. You will align business and technology delivery, govern across workstreams, and set the transition path from project to ongoing BAU operations.

You will own the integrated delivery plan, report to executives, manage risks and dependencies, and lead cross-functional engagements with Operations, Technology, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance and