Ssga Coo – Global Head of Business – Technology Risk and Controls – Managing Director

Ssga Coo – Global Head of Business – Technology Risk and Controls – Managing Director

Requirements

• Minimum of 20 years of executive management experience in financial services.
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in leadership roles including technology and business risk, operational resiliency and continuity, third-party management strategy.
• A minimum of 20 years of experience in managing, leading and developing global high performing cross organizational teams focused on holistic delivery of risk management capabilities and services.
• Minimum of 15 years of Institutional Asset Management and Wealth Management experience required.
• Global multi-jurisdictional regulatory experience preferred. Undergraduate Degree required.
• Advanced master’s degree (e.g., MBA, MSc) or other professional risk management certification (e.g., FRM) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partners with COO leadership team to set strategic and operational objectives within a GA strategic framework, aligning with firm-wide risk, regulatory, operational resiliency, and continuity frameworks.
• Builds strong relationships across the COO, GA, Global Regulators, and key internal stakeholders responsible for the firms risk and regulatory management initiatives.
• Owns and is accountability for the global functional initiatives for GA.
• Partners with COO and GA senior leadership team to actively identify and implement process improvements and organizational optimization as part of the firm’s risk and regulatory transformation strategy.
• Develops and embeds a strong risk and control culture across all regions, integrating control frameworks into the technology platforms and business processes holistically across GA.
• Drives organizational, team, and individual development, enhancing productivity and collaboration while ensuring measurable outcomes within defined time frames.
• Work with the GA functional organizations to develop the required frameworks, operating model, roles, and responsibilities for effectively and consistently managing risk across the business.
• Manages and delivers the firm-wide risk and regulatory transformation program in collaboration with the GA functional organizations, defining the future-state operating model for internal and external business and technology risk, resiliency, and operational continuity management.
• Leverages emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to enhance risk management, improve data utilization, and provide actionable insights for monitoring and reporting risk profile across the business.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong strategic, analytical, and commercial skills.
• Results driven, service/action-oriented delivery skills.
• Organizational and political agility; strong negotiation skills.
• High Risk and Regulatory Excellence pedigree.
• Unquestionable personal code of ethics, integrity, inclusion, and trust.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively partner with executive leadership and management and corporate functions as required to execute the GA and COOs strategic objectives.
• Excellent quantitative, analytical, and critical thinking skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• The ability to create structured, detailed, and compelling analyses addressed to various audiences within the organization including board of directors’ regulators and the GA Operating Group.
• Able to successfully navigate within varying degrees of ambiguity in a fast-paced global, cross functional, highly regulated, matrixed environment internally within GA and across the State Street Corporation.
• Business acumen – ability to pre-empt questions and sense-check the facts and be able to display a detailed business knowledge across all Asset Management business functions.
• Dynamic Management – be comfortable dealing with various changes and adapting to different circumstances.
• Decision Making – ability to find data, insights, and proof points very quickly across the organization and synthesize to effectively make decisions to set future direction.
• Multi-task – ability to effectively manage multiple priorities, but also be able to focus on the most important deliverables of the moment through prioritization and holistic understanding of the broader COO, GA and firm wide strategy.
• Advanced communications skills – written/verbal – and interpersonal savvy (EQ) to build trusted relationships across the company.