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State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

Operational Resilience Enablement Vice President - Enterprise Resiliency Office

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Full-timeKraków, PolandIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Expertise in operational resilience, with a strong focus on impact tolerance design and execution.
  • Strong understanding of financial services operations, including payments, custody, trade lifecycle, and client servicing.
  • Proven ability to assess end-to-end service delivery and disruption propagation across dependencies.
  • Experience developing quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
  • Experience interpreting complex data and identifying vulnerabilities.
  • Experience translating analysis into clear executive insights.
  • Ability to translate vision into execution.
  • Ability to engage senior stakeholders and regulators.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and drive structured outcomes.
  • Degree-level education.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Strong documentation skills.
  • Ability to multitask effectively and efficiently.
  • Flexibility, reliability, and openness to continuous improvement.
  • Knowledge of change management methodology.
  • Proven experience working in a complex oversight environment.
  • Proven ability to influence and shape outcomes with senior-level stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of impact tolerance, including definition, analysis validation, and periodic review.
  • Ensure Impact Tolerances are articulated through clear statements aligned to time and volume thresholds for disruption tolerance, and oversee recalibration based on scenario testing outcomes, material events, and dependency changes.
  • Drive consistency of application across all Critical Business Services and legal entities.
  • Strengthen data integrity, governance, and methodology underpinning impact tolerance calculations.
  • Reduce reliance on manual processes by driving standardisation, automation, and tooling enablement, and build a scalable and repeatable process to calculate impact tolerance.
  • Ensure impact tolerance practices meet expectations from global regulatory frameworks, including PRA, HKMA, MAS, and CPS 230.
  • Keep track of ITOL breaches and report impact tolerance outcomes, breaches, and remediation progress to governance forums such as ERRC.
  • Maintain audit-ready documentation and defensible rationale for all impact tolerance decisions.
  • Define and implement a forward-looking roadmap to mature impact tolerance capabilities, and codify knowledge through standards, playbooks, templates, and training.
  • Build and develop specialist capability across regions to enable consistent execution.
  • Assess regulatory requirements for the different Critical Business Services and entities in the region, compare them with the current approach, and identify gaps and propose required uplifts, actions, or mitigations.
  • Apply knowledge of business unit operations to develop and execute Enterprise Resiliency Programme components and associated standards.
  • Implement and support business units in executing the repeatable framework of cyclical resilience activities to meet strategic and regulatory requirements.
  • Facilitate workshops and provide expertise, experience, and subject-matter-expert support.
  • Lead projects and actively participate in wider State Street projects related to operational resilience.
  • Produce content and present to boards, relevant committees, governance forums, and leadership teams.
  • Participate in meetings with Global Executive Vice Presidents and support local Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMF) roles.
  • Promote a culture of operational resiliency awareness and appropriate governance.
  • Deputise for the manager when required, including on client interactions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working within global systemically important financial institutions (GSIFIs).
  • Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as PRA/FCA, HKMA OR-2, MAS, and CPS 230.
  • Exposure to data analytics, resilience tooling, or automation initiatives.
  • Strong leadership and presentation skills.
  • Experience presenting to executive management and ability to work across functions and businesses, engage stakeholders at all levels of the firm, and work across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Experience interacting with and influencing internal functions without direct control.
  • Ability to think strategically and systematically, execute tactically, and demonstrate creative problem-solving skills.
  • Strong analytical intelligence for forward planning.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to sustain strong relationships with stakeholders and ERO colleagues.

About the Company

State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

State Street holds and services investments for pension funds, insurers, fund companies, and other large institutions, and it also runs index funds through State Street Investment Management. It launched the first US-listed exchange-traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, in 1993, and in 1924 it became custodian of the first US mutual fund. As a custody bank, it safekeeps clients' stocks and bonds, completes their trades, calculates what their funds are worth, and lends their securities to other investors. It earns fees on the assets it services and manages, plus income from currency trading and from interest on client cash. State Street traces its roots to a bank chartered in 1792 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
1792

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