Chief Financial Officer - COO Organization; Technology

State Street is seeking an exceptional finance executive to serve as Chief Financial Officer for the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Organization . This high-impact leadership role will serve as the senior finance partner to the Enterprise COO, providing strategic financial leadership across the firm's global operations, technology, data, cybersecurity, and enterprise infrastructure capabilities.

This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of State Street's operating model, technology strategy, and enterprise transformation agenda. The successful candidate will drive financial performance, investment governance, and strategic decision-making across a highly matrixed global organization spanning operations and technology teams embedded throughout State Street's businesses, functions, and geographies.

Reporting to the Global Head of Strategic Finance , with a dual reporting relationship to the Enterprise Chief Operating Officer , the CFO will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives and a key contributor to the firm's long-term growth, modernization, and productivity objectives.

What You Will Be Responsible For Strategic Finance Leadership 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.

Enterprise Planning & Performance Management 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.

Technology Finance & Investment Governance 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.

Operations Finance & Service Economics 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.

Governance & Executive Engagement 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.

Leadership & Talent Development 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.

What We Value 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…