Chief Financial Officer - COO Organization (Technology)

State Street•Boston, MA

About The Position

State Street is seeking a Chief Financial Officer for its Chief Operating Officer (COO) Organization. The role serves as the senior finance partner to the Enterprise COO, providing strategic financial leadership across global operations, technology, data, cybersecurity, and enterprise infrastructure. The CFO will influence the firm’s operating model, technology strategy, and enterprise transformation agenda, driving financial performance, investment governance, and strategic decisions across a matrixed global organization. The position reports to the Global Head of Strategic Finance and has a dual reporting relationship to the Enterprise Chief Operating Officer. The CFO advises senior executives and contributes to the firm’s growth, modernization, and productivity objectives. Responsibilities span strategic finance, enterprise planning and performance management, technology investment governance, operations finance and service economics, executive governance, and global finance-team leadership. The successful candidate will bring deep financial expertise, an understanding of technology, operations, and large-scale transformation, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries in a complex global environment. The role offers significant executive exposure and an opportunity to shape the financial strategy behind State Street’s operations and technology organization.

Requirements

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, and 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.
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.

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 finance 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

401(k) retirement savings plan 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.
Employee Assistance Program.
Incentive compensation, including eligibility for annual performance-based awards, with certain sales-role exclusions.
Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
Inclusive development opportunities.
Flexible work-life support.
Paid volunteer days.
Employee networks.