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About the Role
The Country Head, Australia role is an enterprise position representing State Street in the local market and driving commercial outcomes. This senior market-facing leader will focus on strengthening client relationships, deepening market presence, and enabling collaboration across businesses to accelerate growth, reporting to the Head of Asia Pacific. The position serves as a senior figurehead for State Street in Australia, uniting the local leadership team, reinforcing a “One State Street” mindset, and role-modelling the firm’s culture and values.
Responsibilities
- Act as a senior representative of State Street in the Australian market, focusing on clients, prospects, and strategic partners.
- Operate as the Client Portfolio Lead for the Australian and New Zealand client base.
- Strengthen State Street’s market profile and brand presence through active engagement with clients and external stakeholders.
- Serve as a visible and credible executive sponsor for key client relationships in partnership with business line leaders.
- Identify and drive cross-business commercial opportunities in collaboration with business unit heads.
- Support cohesion and alignment across businesses to deliver integrated client solutions and stronger commercial outcomes.
- Provide a market-level perspective on client needs, competitive dynamics, and growth opportunities.
- Unite the Australia leadership team across business lines and functions to drive alignment, collaboration, and shared ownership of outcomes.
- Act as a cultural role model and champion for State Street values, supporting employee engagement, and fostering a strong “One State Street” culture.
- Support the development of leaders through connection, visibility, and inclusive leadership practices.
- Manage regulatory responsibilities and direct engagement with regulators.
- Act as the senior responsible person for the SSBT Sydney Branch.
- Manage the branch in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Deliver the branch's strategic and business objectives.
- Operate the branch within approved risk appetite.
- Oversee compliance programs.
- Implement risk management and internal control frameworks.
- Ensure legal, regulatory, contractual, and fiduciary obligations are met.
Requirements
- Substantial senior executive leadership experience within a complex, highly regulated financial services organisation.
- Proven ability to operate effectively across multiple business lines, legal entities, corporate functions, and stakeholder groups in a matrixed global environment.
- Strong commercial acumen and broad understanding of the institutional financial services landscape.
- Sustained track record of building trusted relationships with major clients.
- Experience identifying cross-business opportunities, shaping market strategy, and delivering profitable and sustainable growth.
- Established credibility and a strong market profile in Australia.
- Executive presence, judgement, and communication skills to represent State Street with clients, prospects, regulators, industry bodies, strategic partners, and other senior external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success leading through influence, bringing senior business and functional leaders together around shared priorities, resolving competing interests, and driving accountability for enterprise-wide client, commercial, risk, and people outcomes.
Skills
- Client relationship management
- Market presence
- Collaboration
- Commercial opportunity identification
- Market strategy
- Regulatory engagement
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Leadership
- Communication
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior executive
Benefits
- Inclusive development opportunities
- Flexible work-life support
- Paid volunteer days
- Vibrant employee networks
About the Company
- Across the globe, institutional investors rely on State Street to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability.
- State Street keeps clients at the heart of everything they do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to their continued success.
- State Street is committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential.
Equal Opportunity
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, State Street considers 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.