Assistant Vice President - Corporate FP&A

State Street is a global leader in providing investment management and financial services to institutional investors. They are seeking an Assistant Vice President in Corporate FP&A to support financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis to aid senior management decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Support development and maintenance of corporate budgeting and forecast models
• Coordinate consolidation of BU inputs and validation of assumptions
• Drive improvements in forecasting methodology and accuracy
• Perform reconciliation across systems, planning outputs, and reported results
• Identify and resolve discrepancies and control gaps
• Strengthen validation frameworks and financial integrity
• Analyze enterprise and BU-level financial drivers
• Deliver variance analysis and actionable insights
• Translate operational drivers into financial outcomes
• Support MTO and strategic planning processes
• Perform scenario analysis and sensitivity modeling
• Align financial outputs with long-term strategy
• Coordinate and support MBR cycle deliverables
• Prepare executive-level materials and insights
• Ensure consistency and quality across reporting outputs
• Achieve high levels of forecast accuracy across revenue, expense, and key financial metrics (e.g., minimizing variance vs. actuals)
• Improve quality and consistency of forecasting assumptions across business units
• Deliver on-time, complete budget and forecast submissions across all planning cycles
• Ensure full reconciliation between planning, reporting, and financial systems with minimal unexplained variances
• Reduce manual adjustment requirements and reconciliation breaks over time
• Establish and maintain strong controls and validation processes across FP&A outputs
• Deliver clear, actionable insights on key financial drivers and variances in MBR and forecast cycles
• Provide forward-looking analysis identifying risks and opportunities with quantified impact
• Increase adoption and usage of analytical outputs by senior stakeholders
• Support development of the medium-term outlook with accurate translation of strategy into financial outcomes
• Deliver scenario analyses that inform key strategic decisions (e.g., growth, cost optimization, investment prioritization)
• Improve linkage between strategic initiatives and financial plans
• Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of MBR materials with minimal rework
• Enhance clarity, consistency, and executive-readiness of reporting packages
• Identify and implement improvements in the MBR process to reduce cycle time and complexity
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve FP&A processes (automation, standardization, simplification)
• Reduce turnaround time and manual effort in key deliverables (forecasting, MBR, reconciliation)
• Contribute to adoption of new tools, technologies, and best practices (e.g., data automation, AI-enabled analytics)
• Build strong relationships with BU Finance teams and corporate stakeholders
• Effectively challenge assumptions and improve quality of inputs
• Demonstrate ability to communicate financial insights clearly to senior audiences