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

Who we are looking for

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. This includes managing relationships with the business, ensuring that audits are completed in compliance with the Corporate Audit Department and Institute of Internal Auditors’ standards and developing audit team skillsets. The role can be based in Boston, MA-US; Quincy, MA-US; Clifton, NJ-US; Princeton, NJ-US; Toronto, ON-CA; Dublin, IE; London, UK; Frankfurt, DE; Bangalore, IN.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• 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 a close collaboration with the central Cyber, Horizontal, and Infrastructure audit teams. Develop, own and be accountable for the global client relationship and assurance plan over Operational and Third Party Resilience activities. This includes continuous monitoring over Operational and Third Party Resilience and will require the candidate to successfully develop a depth of knowledge and expertise in relevant topics, regulations, risks and control best practices.
• 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 to us

The team you will be joining plays an important role in the overall success of the organization. Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. To make that happen we need teams like yours to help navigate employees and the organization as a whole. In your role you will strive for cutting-edge solutions, that are straightforward and scalable. You will help us build resilience and execute day to day deliverables at our best. Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

What you will be responsible for

As Head of Business Technology, Resilience, and Project Audit, Managing Director you will:

• 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 with responsibility for global relationships.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in evaluating and testing Business Applications, Operational and Third Party Resilience, and Program/Project controls.
• Influence effective and sustainable improvements to processes and controls through insights gained based on risk and control expertise.
• Manage, coach and develop staff, including participating in the talent management, staff evaluation, and new hire processes.
• Champion continuous improvement and process efficiency in the department.
• Draft, review, finalize and communicate audit deliverables, including audit findings, memos and audit reports to senior and executive management.
• Participate as a non-voting member of various steering committees, management working groups, promoting balanced discussions and encouraging challenge and debate.
• Provide insight on the evolving technology, resilience, and third party regulatory environment and interact with global regulators.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role:

• Role model desired behaviors in cross-cultural awareness and establish and maintain a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Ability to co-operate with others and foster an environment that supports effective teamwork.
• Highly collaborative with strong leadership skills that gain trust and credibility with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Strategic mindset and ability to clearly articulate vision; ability to drive adoption and measure success of initiatives.
• Experience developing and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders, including executives, senior management, regulators and audit s