Senior Accountant

MetLife

(Tampa, Florida)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About MetLife
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), through its subsidiaries and affiliates (“MetLife”), is one of the largest life insurance companies in the world. Founded in 1868, MetLife is a global provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. Serving approximately 100 million customers, MetLife has operations in nearly 50 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Summary
As a member of the Corporate and Other (C&O) team, the Sr. Accountant position will be responsible for the accurate and timely preparation and analysis of planning and projections as well as monthly and quarterly actual results for the C&O line of business on both a GAAP and STAT basis. The candidate will need to be flexible enough to work and in some cases lead different projects assigned to C&O.
Responsibilities
* Participate in the GAAP and STAT C&O planning and projection process for the income statement and balance sheet. Responsible for contributing to a standard monthly projection reporting package for the CFO Monthly Projection Meeting and annual plan deck for senior management review. * Manage, communicate and work with different departments to identify and document key drivers of variances between projections against plan and projections against prior projections. Also includes supporting the implementation of the C&O Hyperion Planning tool in order to fully automate the projection process. * Participate in the C&O stress test projection process. Including reviewing baseline results, stress scenario results and reconciliation between different scenarios making sure that results are consistent based upon the latest Enterprise Risk Management guidance and stress variables. These results are presented to the Capital Management Committee on a quarterly basis allowing timely decisions making for the Company. * Responsible for the preparation of the monthly and quarterly actual reporting packages and related analytics for the C&O segment. This includes managing the preparation of the QFS reporting package, including detailed analysis of current period actuals v., plan/prior period actuals and communicating to senior management.Prepare quarterly GAAP and STAT financial statement analytics for assigned legal entities for both Legal Entity Controller Sign-off as well as external audit support. * Lead the annual C&O Embedded Value process. Lead liaison between internal audit and C&O during the audit of the C&O Embedded Value
Ideal Candidate
* 8+ years total financial analysis in a public or private company environment. * BA/BS degree in Finance or Accounting * Strong knowledge of Excel required. Knowledge of HFM, Smartview and Hyperion Planning a plus * Completion of/or progress towards CPA, MBA, or CMA a plus * Knowledge of US GAAP, insurance accounting and US STAT a plus

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