
Financial Services · 48k people
Chief Financial Officer - COO Organization (Technology)
Posted 20 Oct
What’s this role about? The CFO will serve as the senior finance partner to the Enterprise COO, providing strategic leadership across global operations, technology, and enterprise infrastructure. They will lead budgeting, forecasting, and investment governance while driving productivity and performance management initiatives across the organization.
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Company
About State Street At State Street, we deliver leading investment platforms, data, expertise, and solutions that accelerate performance and better decision making. With over 200 years of global financial leadership, we equip institutional investors through a comprehensive suite of capabilities: Investment Services: Integrated front-to-back solutions across custody, accounting, and operations. Investment Management: Index and active strategies from one of the world’s largest asset managers. Markets: Multi-asset trading, FX solutions, and data-driven research to enhance portfolio value. Who We Are • 50,000+ employees worldwide • Active in 100+ markets • #1 in ETF servicing What You’ll Find Here • Executive perspectives and thought leadership • Timely market commentary and macro insights • Our views on investment operations, ETFs, private markets, and digital finance • Stories reflecting our culture, values and commitment to diversity and inclusion
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Responsibilities
- 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 and AI Cybersecurity Cloud and infrastructure platforms Enterprise applications Engineering and software development Automation and digital transformation
- 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 across the enterprise 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 the 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.
- Support interactions with regulators and control functions regarding technology, operational resilience, remediation, and transformation initiatives.
- Ensure robust financial governance across a complex, global organization.
- Lead and develop a high-performing global finance team.
- Build organizational capabilities in technology finance, analytics, investment evaluation, unit cost management, and strategic decision support.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Strengthen leadership succession and talent development across the finance organization.
- The ideal candidate combines deep financial expertise with a strong understanding of technology, operations, and large-scale transformation. Success in this role requires the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, build strong executive relationships, and operate effectively in a highly matrixed global environment.
- Strategic vision and commercial judgment
- Strong executive presence and communication skills
- Technology and digital fluency
- Analytical rigor and data-driven decision making
- A collaborative, enterprise-first mindset
- Experience managing complex stakeholder environments
- A track record of delivering results in large-scale organizations
Qualification
Required
- 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 understanding of: Technology investment economics Software development and engineering models Cloud and infrastructure consumption Vendor and licensing strategies Platform and product economics Technology unit-cost management
- Proven experience operating successfully within matrixed organizations.
- Strong knowledge of governance, risk management, controls, and regulatory environments.
- Experience advising C-suite executives and presenting to Boards and senior leadership teams.
Preferred
- Prior CFO or senior finance leadership experience supporting a COO, CIO, CTO, global operations organization, or shared-services function.
- Experience within a technology company, fintech, cloud provider, software business, or digitally focused enterprise.
- Experience designing enterprise-wide financial frameworks across multiple businesses and geographies.
- Proven success leading large transformation, productivity, or operating-model initiatives.
- Experience supporting regulator interactions and Board-level governance in a regulated financial institution.
- This is a rare opportunity to shape the financial strategy behind one of the industry's largest global operations and technology organizations. The role sits at the center of State Street's transformation agenda, offering significant exposure to executive leadership, enterprise strategy, technology modernization, and long-term value creation.
- Join us and help redefine the future of operations, technology, and finance at State Street.
Benefits
- The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
- Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
- For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.
- Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
- We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
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