Chief Financial Officer - COO Organization (Technology)

State Street • Boston, MA

6d • $225,000 - $337,500

About The Position

State Street is seeking a Chief Financial Officer for its Chief Operating Officer (COO) Organization. The CFO will serve as the senior finance partner to the Enterprise COO, providing strategic financial leadership across global operations, technology, data, cybersecurity, and enterprise infrastructure. The role will influence the firm’s operating model, technology strategy, and enterprise transformation agenda, supporting financial performance, investment governance, and strategic decision-making across a highly matrixed global organization.

Reporting to the Global Head of Strategic Finance, with a dual reporting relationship to the Enterprise Chief Operating Officer, the CFO will advise senior executives and contribute to the firm’s growth, modernization, and productivity objectives. The position leads financial planning and performance management, technology investment governance, operations finance, executive governance support, and development of a high-performing global finance team.

The role requires extensive finance leadership experience in large, complex global organizations; technology finance expertise; and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries. The salary range is $225,000–$337,500 annually for the primary location specified in the posting.

Requirements

• 15 or more 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, and technology unit-cost management.
• Proven ability to operate 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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 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 to 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 enterprise capabilities.
• Provide financial leadership for enterprise technology investments in 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 for platform economics, cloud consumption, engineering productivity, software lifecycle investments, and technology unit costs.
• Improve transparency around investment outcomes, run versus change spending, 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 to support 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 with the Enterprise CFO, Enterprise COO, CIO, business-line CFOs, and senior operating leaders.
• Support regulator and control-function interactions 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 capabilities in technology finance, analytics, investment evaluation, unit cost management, and strategic decision support.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen leadership succession and talent development across the finance organization.

Benefits

• Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
• Insurance coverage, including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
• Incentive compensation, including eligibility for annual performance-based awards, with certain sales roles excluded and subject to sales incentive plans.
• Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
• Inclusive development opportunities.
• Flexible work-life support.
• Paid volunteer days.
• Employee networks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed