Chief Financial Officer, State Street Investment Management

About the Role State Street is looking for an experienced financial executive to serve as Chief Financial Officer of State Street Investment Management (CFO). As the senior finance leader for one of the world's largest asset managers, the CFO will be a  business-shaping leader who uses finance as a lens to set strategy, allocate resources, improve the quality of earnings and strengthen long-term enterprise value.

Reporting to both the State Street CFO and the SSIM CEO, the CFO will be a co-wner of strategy execution, performance and resource allocation.  He/she will represent SSIM’s economics with independence and credibility while acting in the best interests of the wider enterprise, transparently navigating competing priorities and driving decisions on where to invest, grow, partner, acquire, reposition or exit.

The ideal candidate combines deep investment management knowledge, commercial judgment and enterprise leadership with a record of making difficult portfolio choices, leading transformation and building a modern, highly credible finance organization.

Key Responsibilities Strategic Finance Leadership Serve as a principal advisor and constructive challenger to the SSIM CEO and leadership team, translating strategy into a multi-year financial framework and clear operating  enterprise performance and resource allocation, including setting hurdle rates, arbitrating competing investments and driving corrective action when results or returns fall short.

Assess the attractiveness, competitiveness, revenue quality and return profile of SSIM's business portfolio and recommend where to build, buy, partner, reposition, scale or exit.

Represent SSIM’s financial position and priorities to the State Street CFO, the SSIM Operating Group and enterprise Finance, balancing objective advocacy for the business with enterprise stewardship.

Act as a principal in partnerships, acquisitions and divestitures, including thesis development, valuation, due diligence, structuring, integration planning and post-investment accountability.

Financial Planning and Performance Management Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning and management reporting, with clear accountability for commitments and timely action on performance gaps.

Provide an integrated view of organic growth, market appreciation, gross and net flows, retention, fee yield, mix, margin, operating leverage and market sensitivity.

Establish transparent economics across products, wrappers, investment capabilities, client segments, channels and geographies, including cost-to-serve, capacity and scalability.

Connect investment performance, flows, pricing and profitability to decisions on talent, research, data, platforms and the future of underperforming or subscale capabilities, while preserving investment independence.

Drive expense discipline and productivity while protecting differentiated growth investments and improving the durability and quality of earnings.

Product, Pricing and Commercial Finance Provide financial leadership for pricing and fee exceptions and scale thresholds.

Improve visibility into client lifetime value, mandate profitability, revenue sharing, platform costs, sales productivity and returns on distribution investment.

Shape commercial choices across institutional, intermediary, wealth and partnership models, balancing growth, client relevance, economics and execution capacity.

Transformation and Investment Governance Act as a key financial leader for operating model redesign and technology, data, automation and AI modernization.

Set business case and portfolio governance standards, prioritize scarce investment, track benefits and stop or redirect initiatives that do not deliver credible outcomes.

Ensure modernization choices…