Head of Business Technology, Resilience and Project Audit, Managing Director - State Street

Head of Business Technology, Resilience and Project Audit, Managing Director

Company: State Street

State Street provides investment servicing, investment management, investment research, and trading services to institutional investors worldwide.

Role Overview: In this role, you will lead Corporate Audit’s Business Technology, Resilience, and Project team, reporting directly to the Global Head of Technology and Cyber Audit. You will lead a team of auditors to understand and assess risks and related business and technology controls that span the entire State Street enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate all business application coverage across Corporate Audit, ensuring the identification and tagging of applications to critical business processes, consistency of coverage and testing approach, and identification of issue themes across multiple applications and their enterprise impact.
• Develop a community of practice across the embedded IT auditors in business and regional teams, and maintain close collaboration with the central Cyber, Horizontal, and Infrastructure audit teams.
• Develop and own the methodology and coordinate Corporate Audit’s coverage over key programs, projects, and change initiatives including risk-based continuous monitoring and overseeing point-in-time project audits including pre- and post-implementation reviews.

Why This Role is Important: The team you will be joining plays an important role in the overall success of the organization. Institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability.

What You Will Be Responsible For:

• Create and maintain audit approaches and coverage methodology for the areas described in this job description.
• Define and execute a multi-year risk-based plan for coverage of the in-scope areas.
• Build and maintain resilience, business and technology, and program/project assurance skillsets on a global team.
• Proactively engage with State Street management across various departments.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in evaluating and testing Business Applications, Operational and Third Party Resilience, and Program/Project controls.
• Manage, coach and develop staff, including participating in the talent management, staff evaluation, and new hire processes.
• Draft, review, finalize and communicate audit deliverables, including audit findings, memos, and audit reports to senior and executive management.

What We Value:

• Strong leadership skills that gain trust and credibility with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Experience developing and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders, including executives and audit staff.
• Ability to manage complexity and prioritize multiple tasks effectively.

Education & Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Accountancy or other relevant field.
• One industry recognized certification (CPA, CIA, CISA, CISSP, CISM, PMP or equivalent) required.
• 15+ years of experience with assurance, including over financial services and technology innovation.

About State Street: State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers, and asset intelligence companies in the world. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading, and investment management to institutional clients.

Salary Range: $170,000 - $267,500 Annual