State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) announced today that it has appointed John F. Woods to Chief Financial Officer.

Woods, who will join State Street in late August, succeeds Mark Keating who has served as interim CFO since February. Upon joining State Street, Woods will report to Ron O’Hanley, State Street’s chairman and chief executive officer.

Woods joins State Street from Citizens Financial Group where he is currently Vice Chair and Chief Financial Officer. He has responsibility for Citizens’ Financial Planning, Controller, Investor Relations, Strategy and Corporate Development, Treasury, Tax, Business line finance, and Property and Procurement groups.

Woods brings more than 38 years of industry experience across multiple finance disciplines to State Street working at large and complex financial institutions. His deep CFO experience along with proven ability in setting and executing enterprise strategy, balance sheet management, focus on building and developing high performing teams, as well as investor and regulator relationship management all position him well to bring immediate value to State Street.

Prior to Citizens, Woods spent several years at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group where he was most recently CFO of MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation. Prior to that Woods held financial leadership roles at other large financial institutions including CFO of Home Lending at JPMorgan Chase. He started his career at Arthur Andersen where he became a partner in the financial and risk consulting group.

Woods holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.