Met Life Work Values

Daily Duties at Met Life:

Finance Manager – MetLife International Finance – FP&A, (2009-2012) • Promoted to join the newly created International FP&A team and work with the CFO to set up the groundwork for MetLife’s International expansion. Utilized Hyperion systems, and worked across functions to set up the executive reports that analyzed variances for all product sales, revenues, expenses, and profit of the 60 countries following Alico’s acquisition. Tracked key ratios and analyzed Exchange rate impact. • Engaged with country managers to prepare monthly/quarterly control metric packs for review meetings that analyzed the plan, forecast and actual financial results; visited the countries and discussed results with country management; prepared and presented PowerPoint presentations for CFO and Investor Day meetings. Finance Manager – MetLife Corporate Finance – Financial Control and Asset Management, (2006-2009) • Prepared and analyzed monthly and quarterly plans, projections and actual results of all MetLife businesses and products, prepared executive PowerPoint presentations for the CFO group and the Board. • Engaged with business managers from a variety of MetLife functions like Treasury, Actuarial, Product and Controller, and utilized Hyperion to provide actual, plan, projections and KPI variance analysis, prepared PowerPoint presentations to present the results to senior managers and CFOs within the organization. • Managed 3 interns to incorporate Asset Management data and prepare investment income projection analysis for all lines of business, analyzed asset variances and presented results to Executives. • In charge of executive reporting for all lines of business. Strategic Planning Manager – MetLife Strategic Planning and Retirement Strategies Group, (2005-2006) • Member of MetLife - McKinsey Retirement Strategies team, analyzed the retirement marketplace and helped drive the direction of MetLife’s retirement business. • Initiated the competitive retirement marketplace analysis, worked with leaders and researched MetLife’s current approach, compared it with the competitors' and presented to business leaders. • Worked closely with stakeholders to prepare competitive and in-house analysis that helped shape the content for the Executive meeting that initiated MetLife’s retirement strategy.

What they like about Met Life:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

FP, Strategic Planning, Hyperion, Reporting

Skills

Financial Planning and Analysis, Strategic Planning, Executive Reporting, Project Management, Securities Analysis, Modeling, Due Diligence, HR Data Analytics, Budgeting, Forecasting, M&A Analysis, Equity Research, Market Research, Writing, Presentations

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