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Who we are looking for
We are looking for a Payments Business Risk Management Executive, Senior Vice President to lead and steward the first-line risk and control agenda across the firm’s global Payments business.
This senior executive will operate as a strategic partner to the Head of Payments and the Head of Business Controls & Enterprise Resiliency, with a dual reporting relationship that ensures close alignment between Payments business priorities and the firm’s broader risk, control and resiliency agenda.
The successful candidate will bring deep experience in financial services, payments and/or business risk management, combined with the executive presence and commercial judgment required to influence senior leaders across a complex global organization.
Why this role is important to us
Payments represents a critical component of the firm’s global operating environment, supporting high-volume, time-sensitive and highly regulated activities across multiple markets, platforms and clients.
As the Payments business continues to modernize its platforms, operating models and capabilities, this role will ensure that risk management and controls are embedded into business strategy, transformation and day-to-day execution.
The role will provide senior first-line risk leadership across enterprise-wide Payments while partnering closely with Business Controls & Enterprise Resiliency, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Product and Operations.
What you will be responsible for
Business Risk & Control Leadership
- Lead and steward the first-line risk and control agenda for enterprise-wide Payments globally, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, monitored, mitigated and appropriately escalated.
- Serve as the senior Business Risk Management partner to the Head of Payments, providing strategic advice and constructive challenge on business, operational and transformation priorities.
- Ensure appropriate risk, controls and governance for this critical business service and related processes across the firm
- Maintain a comprehensive view of the Payments risk profile across platforms, products, processes and geographies.
- Drive consistent and sustainable risk and control practices across the global Payments organization.
- Establish effective governance, reporting, issue management and escalation mechanisms for material risks and control matters.
Transformation, Resiliency & Regulatory
- Provide risk leadership and challenge across Payments transformation, including technology modernization, automation, platform change and operating model redesign.
- Partner with Product, Technology and Operations to ensure risk and control requirements are embedded in new capabilities and material change programs.
- Strengthen operational resilience across critical Payments services and ensure appropriate consideration of technology, process and third-party dependencies.
- Lead first-line engagement on significant issues, including root-cause analysis, remediation and sustainable risk reduction.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal and Internal Audit and support regulatory examinations, audits and other reviews relating to Payments.
- Represent the Payments risk and control agenda in senior governance and risk forums.
Leadership & Culture
- Promote strong first-line ownership and an effective risk and control culture throughout Payments.
- Build trusted relationships across business, product, technology and control functions and influence outcomes in a highly matrixed global organization.
- Lead and develop a high-performing Payments Business Risk Management team, building strong capabilities, accountability and succession
- Play a key leadership role in Business Controls and resiliency organisation, developing best practices, innovation and standards
- Act as a change leader, balancing appropriate risk management with the commercial and strategic objectives of the Payments business.
What we value
At Senior Vice President level, we are looking for an established leader who combines strong risk and control expertise with deep business understanding and executive influence.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Significant leadership experience in financial services, with experience across payments, transaction banking, banking operations, operational risk or first-line business risk management.
- Deep understanding of operational and non-financial risk, controls, governance, issue management and remediation.
- Strong understanding of complex, high-volume and time-critical payment environments.
- Experience supporting major technology, operational or business transformation programs within regulated financial services.
- Proven ability to partner with and constructively challenge senior executives while maintaining a pragmatic and commercially focused approach.
- Ability to operate effectively in a dual-reporting, highly matrixed global organization.
- Strong understanding of regulatory expectations and operational resilience within financial services.
- Experience engaging with senior Risk, Compliance, Audit and regulatory stakeholders.
- Excellent executive communication, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity and significant organizational change.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of relevant financial services experience, including significant senior leadership experience.
- Experience in Payments, Treasury Services, Transaction Banking, Banking Operations, Business Risk Management or related areas strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading risk and control agendas across complex global businesses or platforms.
- Experience providing risk leadership for significant business and technology transformation.
- Strong people leadership and talent development experience.
- Graduate degree or equivalent professional experience; relevant risk, finance or business qualifications are advantageous.
Salary Range:
$225 000 - $337 500 AnnualThe 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.
For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home .
About State Street
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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Who we are looking for
We are looking for a Payments Business Risk Management Executive, Senior Vice President to lead and steward the first-line risk and control agenda across the firm’s global Payments business.
This senior executive will operate as a strategic partner to the Head of Payments and the Head of Business Controls & Enterprise Resiliency, with a dual reporting relationship that ensures close alignment between Payments business priorities and the firm’s broader risk, control and resiliency agenda.
The successful candidate will bring deep experience in financial services, payments and/or business risk management, combined with the executive presence and commercial judgment required to influence senior leaders across a complex global organization.
Why this role is important to us
Payments represents a critical component of the firm’s global operating environment, supporting high-volume, time-sensitive and highly regulated activities across multiple markets, platforms and clients.
As the Payments business continues to modernize its platforms, operating models and capabilities, this role will ensure that risk management and controls are embedded into business strategy, transformation and day-to-day execution.
The role will provide senior first-line risk leadership across enterprise-wide Payments while partnering closely with Business Controls & Enterprise Resiliency, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Product and Operations.
What you will be responsible for
Business Risk & Control Leadership
- Lead and steward the first-line risk and control agenda for enterprise-wide Payments globally, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, monitored, mitigated and appropriately escalated.
- Serve as the senior Business Risk Management partner to the Head of Payments, providing strategic advice and constructive challenge on business, operational and transformation priorities.
- Ensure appropriate risk, controls and governance for this critical business service and related processes across the firm
- Maintain a comprehensive view of the Payments risk profile across platforms, products, processes and geographies.
- Drive consistent and sustainable risk and control practices across the global Payments organization.
- Establish effective governance, reporting, issue management and escalation mechanisms for material risks and control matters.
Transformation, Resiliency & Regulatory
- Provide risk leadership and challenge across Payments transformation, including technology modernization, automation, platform change and operating model redesign.
- Partner with Product, Technology and Operations to ensure risk and control requirements are embedded in new capabilities and material change programs.
- Strengthen operational resilience across critical Payments services and ensure appropriate consideration of technology, process and third-party dependencies.
- Lead first-line engagement on significant issues, including root-cause analysis, remediation and sustainable risk reduction.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal and Internal Audit and support regulatory examinations, audits and other reviews relating to Payments.
- Represent the Payments risk and control agenda in senior governance and risk forums.
Leadership & Culture
- Promote strong first-line ownership and an effective risk and control culture throughout Payments.
- Build trusted relationships across business, product, technology and control functions and influence outcomes in a highly matrixed global organization.
- Lead and develop a high-performing Payments Business Risk Management team, building strong capabilities, accountability and succession
- Play a key leadership role in Business Controls and resiliency organisation, developing best practices, innovation and standards
- Act as a change leader, balancing appropriate risk management with the commercial and strategic objectives of the Payments business.
What we value
At Senior Vice President level, we are looking for an established leader who combines strong risk and control expertise with deep business understanding and executive influence.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Significant leadership experience in financial services, with experience across payments, transaction banking, banking operations, operational risk or first-line business risk management.
- Deep understanding of operational and non-financial risk, controls, governance, issue management and remediation.
- Strong understanding of complex, high-volume and time-critical payment environments.
- Experience supporting major technology, operational or business transformation programs within regulated financial services.
- Proven ability to partner with and constructively challenge senior executives while maintaining a pragmatic and commercially focused approach.
- Ability to operate effectively in a dual-reporting, highly matrixed global organization.
- Strong understanding of regulatory expectations and operational resilience within financial services.
- Experience engaging with senior Risk, Compliance, Audit and regulatory stakeholders.
- Excellent executive communication, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity and significant organizational change.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of relevant financial services experience, including significant senior leadership experience.
- Experience in Payments, Treasury Services, Transaction Banking, Banking Operations, Business Risk Management or related areas strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading risk and control agendas across complex global businesses or platforms.
- Experience providing risk leadership for significant business and technology transformation.
- Strong people leadership and talent development experience.
- Graduate degree or equivalent professional experience; relevant risk, finance or business qualifications are advantageous.
Salary Range:
$225 000 - $337 500 AnnualThe 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.
For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home .
About State Street
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.
Discover more information on jobs at StateStreet.com/careers
Read our CEO Statement
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Who's Hiring
- JPMorganChase23
- State Street4
- Deutsche Bank4
- Jefferies3
- MUFG2
Top Industries Hiring
- Investment & Asset Management
- Banking & Financial Services
- Fintech
- Non-Profit & Social Services
- Insurance
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in vice president of risk management jobs.
- 10 or more years of progressive risk management experience across financial services or regulated industries
- Deep expertise in enterprise risk frameworks such as COSO, ISO 31000, or Basel III
- Experience leading risk committees, board reporting, and senior stakeholder engagement
- Professional certification such as FRM, CRO, or CFA strongly preferred
- Advanced degree in finance, economics, business administration, or a related field
- Proficiency with risk management platforms, GRC tools, and data analytics software
Tips for Your Vice President of Risk Management Job Search
Quantify risk reduction on your resume
Hiring managers at the VP level want to see outcomes, not duties. Replace generic bullets with metrics like capital at risk reduced, regulatory findings closed, or audit scores improved. Vague descriptions of oversight responsibilities won't move you past screening.
Highlight your regulatory experience by framework
Name the specific frameworks you've worked within, such as Basel III, COSO, SOX, or DORA. Committees and audit teams scan for exact regulatory language, and a resume that matches their compliance environment gets pulled faster than one that lists generic risk experience.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists vice president of risk management openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by risk category, not just title
Search for credit risk, operational risk, and market risk separately alongside the VP title. Many organizations post these roles under category-specific headings, and limiting searches to the generic title means missing a large share of relevant openings.
Prepare a case study for your panel interview
VP-level risk interviews often include a scenario exercise or live case. Prepare a structured walk-through of a past risk event you managed, covering how you identified it, your decision process, stakeholders involved, and the resolution. Generic answers at this level won't hold up under senior questioning.
Negotiate total compensation, not just base
At the VP level, annual incentive plans, long-term incentive awards, and deferred compensation can represent a significant portion of your offer. Know the structure before you negotiate so you're comparing the full package across competing offers, not just base salary.
Vice President of Risk Management Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most vice president of risk managements?
The companies hiring the most vice president of risk managements right now include JPMorganChase, State Street, and Deutsche Bank, with the largest share of openings in New York, Texas, and New Jersey, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Financial services, insurance carriers, and large healthcare systems consistently account for the highest volume of VP-level risk openings.
How many vice president of risk management jobs are remote?
About 59% of vice president of risk management openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the board-facing and cross-functional nature of most VP risk roles. Enterprise risk and operational risk positions tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while credit risk and market risk roles more frequently require on-site presence at trading floors or lending centers.
How do you become a vice president of risk management?
Most vice presidents of risk management move up through senior manager or director-level roles in credit, operational, or enterprise risk functions. Building your path means earning a relevant advanced degree, obtaining a recognized risk certification such as the FRM, leading cross-functional risk projects with board-level visibility, and demonstrating measurable outcomes in regulatory compliance or loss reduction over multiple years.
Can you get a vice president of risk management job without direct VP-level experience?
Yes, candidates who have held director or senior manager titles in risk can move into VP roles by demonstrating that they've already operated at that scope. The clearest path is showing experience owning a risk framework end-to-end, presenting to senior leadership or regulators, and managing a team, even if your previous title didn't carry the VP designation.
What does the vice president of risk management interview process look like?
Most VP risk interviews run three to four rounds, starting with a recruiter screen, moving to a technical interview focused on frameworks and regulatory experience, and ending with panel sessions that often include the chief risk officer, CFO, or audit committee representatives. Some organizations include a written case study or scenario exercise where you're asked to assess a risk event and present your response approach.
Where can I find and apply to vice president of risk management jobs?
You can find and apply to vice president of risk management jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search for roles that match your risk specialization and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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