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Who we are looking for

Our company, a leading player in the financial services industry, is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Assistant Vice President (AVP), Corporate Audit Operations. This role is responsible for ensuring the effective issuance of audit deliverables to stakeholders, maintaining the audit production plan, and managing comprehensive month-end reporting. The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational skills, a solid understanding of audit processes, and the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

This role can be performed in a hybrid model (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) out of Boston or Quincy office.

Why is this role important to us?

As a member of State Street Corporation's Audit Division, you will be part of a team where collaboration is encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is valued. We offer flexible schedules, continuous training, global exposure, and multiple opportunities for personal and professional growth. Our team of 400+ professionals is responsible for providing independent, objective assurance and advisory services designed to add value, minimize risk, and improve the overall control environment of State Street Corporation and its subsidiaries. Our auditors interact and communicate regularly with executive management and have tremendous insight into all parts of the company's daily operations.

About the Role

Within Corporate Audit, the AVP, Audit Operations plays a critical governance and oversight role. You will serve as the central point of coordination for audit plan execution, deliverable quality, regulatory expectations, and operational reporting across a global audit function. This position ensures that our audit plan runs with precision, transparency, and discipline, enabling our auditors, senior leaders, and regulators to rely on accurate, timely, and wellgoverned information.

You will partner closely with Audit Managers, senior stakeholders, and crossfunctional leaders to strengthen how we plan, track, report, and communicate audit activity. This role is essential to maintaining the integrity of our audit universe, supporting riskbased planning, and ensuring that audit deliverables meet the highest standards of quality and consistency.

• Own the governance and quality control process for all audit deliverables, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with Corporate Audit methodology and regulatory expectations.
• Lead the development, maintenance, and oversight of the audit production plan, ensuring alignment with the annual audit plan, risk priorities, and resource availability.
• Monitor audit progress and performance metrics, identifying bottlenecks, emerging risks, and operational gaps; recommend and implement process improvements to enhance execution efficiency.
• Manage the audit universe and coverage data, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and ongoing quality assurance to support audit plan development.
• Enhance audit operations processes, leveraging data, automation, and audit management systems to strengthen transparency, control, and workflow efficiency.
• Partner with Audit Directors and Audit Managers to support riskbased planning, forecast coverage, and audit plan governance.
• Champion operational excellence, ensuring Corporate Audit maintains strong documentation standards, reporting discipline, and adherence to methodology

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of internal audit, audit operations, and/or public accounting experience within the financial services industry, with a strong understanding of risk-based auditing practices.
• Experience maintaining audit production plans and related governance reporting, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and alignment with departmental objectives.
• Experience overseeing audit universe data and coverage information, including ongoing maintenance, quality assurance, and support for audit planning activities.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and improve operational processes, identifying efficiencies, strengthening controls, and implementing sustainable process enhancements.
• Strong analytical and data management skills, including advanced Excel proficiency and experience leveraging data to monitor performance, identify trends and support decision-making; experience with SQL, Python or similar tools a plus.
• Experience utilizing audit management systems (e.g., MetricStream, Workiva, Archer, TeamMate, or similar) to support audit planning, reporting and operational processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and provide clear, concise reporting to senior management and key stakeholders.
• CIA or other relevant professional certification preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field; relevant certifications (e.g., CIA) preferred.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under pressure.
• High attention to detail and commitment to integrity and confidentiality.

Salary Range:

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you'll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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