Expense Management Analyst

Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
Expense Management provides best-in-class IT Financial Transparency to MetLife IT and Business Partners alike through best-in-class financial enterprise standards. Making MetLife's IT the most efficient through financial awareness and empowerment. This enables the Business to make effective strategic decisions that maximize its return on its IT investments. This Expense Management role serves an integral part supporting the Global Security, Architecture & Tech Enablement forecasting and billing. Engaging directly with project managers, engineers, business analyst and vendors to manage the expense.
Key Responsibilities:

• Forecasts monthly expenses for Global Security, Architecture, and Tech Enablement
• Builds annual budgets, ensuring alignment with departmental goals budget.
• Accountable for coordinating and tracking the delivery of IT savings initiatives within the respective departments supported.
• Accountable for IT expense approvals and facilitation of purchase requestions within supported departments.
• Prepares and presents monthly financial reporting packages
• Develop financial models and analyses to support cost saving/growth of the business & strategic initiatives.
• Prepare journal entry support for expense reclassification, aligning material costs with project budgets and general ledger accounts.
• Develop and accrue expenses and ensure accurate recognition within appropriate accounting periods, coordinating with procurement and project teams.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:

• Typically requires 3+ years of experience in financial reporting and/ or accounting.
• BA/BS in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Interpersonal, organizational, analytical, and project management skills.
• Must be able to communicate information clearly and effectively.
• Must meet established deadlines on a continual basis.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to learn financial reporting systems.
• Support reporting and analysis requirements for financial reports and disclosures.

Preferred:

• Financial modeling experience.
• Apptio experience.

At MetLife, we're leading the global transformation of an industry we've long defined. United in purpose, diverse in perspective, we're dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our customers.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2024 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
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