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About the Role

We are seeking a senior first-line Business Risk executive to lead the risk advisory and control agenda for State Street Markets’ GlobalLink business, including its suite of electronic trading platforms, workflow solutions, pre- and post-trade capabilities, execution venues, white label solutions and payment solutions. This role will provide strategic direction, credible challenge, and senior risk leadership across a business that connects clients to liquidity, financing, research, analytics, and market infrastructure through a unified, interoperable LINK ecosystem. The Managing Director will lead a team of Business Risk professionals and partner closely with GlobalLink business leadership, Sales, Product, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Enterprise Risk, and Internal Audit.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior Business Risk Management lead and principal escalation point for material risk, control, and emerging-risk matters affecting Financing Solutions, Portfolio Solutions, and adjacent Markets activities.
Lead and develop a team of Business Risk professionals, set clear accountability and priorities, and oversee the quality and consistency of risk advisory coverage delivered to the supported businesses.
Provide executive-level risk advice and credible challenges to business leadership across trade execution, lifecycle management, financing, collateral, valuation, market conduct, surveillance, and regulatory reporting.
Establish and oversee the end-to-end first-line risk and control framework, including risk and control assessments, control inventories, key risk indicators, issue management, incident and near-miss governance, and senior management reporting.
Ensure material incidents, control failures, and emerging exposures are identified early, escalated promptly, investigated thoroughly, and remediated through sustainable, well-documented actions.
Drive control modernization through automation, data-led monitoring, process simplification, and exception-based oversight, with a particular focus on reducing manual error and strengthening preventive and detective controls.
Lead Business Risk engagement for regulatory examinations, internal audits, and independent reviews, including preparation of clear narratives, evidence, management responses, and sustainable remediation plans.
Partner with Compliance and Legal to assess regulations impacting electronic trading providers globally, including requirements related to market access, trading venues, algorithmic and electronic trading controls, conduct risk, client transparency, data, reporting, operational resilience, and cross-border platform delivery, and translate them into practical business and control actions.
Provide executive risk sponsorship and challenge for new products, business expansion, strategic change, technology transformation, and operating-model initiatives, including assessment of readiness, scalability, and residual risk.
Chair or represent the business in relevant risk committees and governance forums, ensuring transparent reporting, timely decisions, clear ownership, and disciplined action tracking.
Build effective partnerships across the three lines of defense and communicate complex risk matters in clear, decision-ready language for executive leadership, governance committees, auditors, and regulators.
Promote a strong culture of risk ownership, constructive challenge, accountability, and continuous improvement across the supported businesses.

Requirements

15+ years of financial services experience, including significant senior leadership experience in Business Risk, Markets Risk, Operational Risk, Compliance, Audit, Business Controls, or a related function.
Direct experience supporting electronic trading platforms, multi-asset execution venues, client connectivity, liquidity access, workflow solutions, payments, analytics, or post-trade capabilities within a global markets environment.
Deep understanding of platform operating models, electronic trading workflows, market structure, client onboarding and entitlements, data and analytics, settlement, regulatory reporting, technology resiliency, and front-to-back control design.
Demonstrated success leading regulatory examinations, audits, complex remediation programs, and large-scale control or operating-model transformation.
Proven people leadership experience, including developing senior risk professionals and coordinating teams and stakeholders across regions.

Skills

Executive presence and the ability to influence, challenge, and advise senior leaders while maintaining strong business partnerships.
Deep knowledge of first-line risk management, control design, issue and incident management, operational resilience, and regulatory remediation.
Commercial judgment and the ability to balance business growth with the firm’s risk appetite, regulatory obligations, and control standards.
Strategic thinking combined with disciplined execution, clear escalation, and strong attention to the quality of risk documentation and evidence.
Ability to lead through complexity, set direction across a global stakeholder network, and build high-performing, inclusive teams.
Exceptional written and verbal communication, including experience presenting to executive committees, governance forums, auditors, and regulators.

Location

Primary location specified (details not provided in text)

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Managing Director
15+ years of financial services experience
Significant senior leadership experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
Advanced degree and relevant industry or risk certifications are preferred

Salary/Compensations

$170,000 - $267,500 Annual

Benefits

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
Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

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.