The Finance Operations Manager oversees finance processes, ensuring compliant financial processing, reporting, and supports operational efficiency through automation and digital solutions.
Description and Requirements
This role is part of the Shared Services / Global Finance Operations organization and is responsible for delivering end ‑ to ‑ end finance and accounting support across core finance processes, including FP&A, General Accounting, Financial Reporting & Analysist. The Finance Operations Manager ensures accurate, timely, and compliant financial processing and reporting in alignment with applicable accounting standards, internal control frameworks, and organizational policies.
The position plays a critical role in managing period ‑ end close activities, statutory and management reporting, balance sheet governance, reconciliations, and variance analysis, while also supporting financial control and governance over accounting policies, judgments, and critical estimates. Acting as a key support to controllership functions, the role helps ensure the integrity, completeness, and accuracy of financial records and a strong internal control environment.
The role supports business and finance leadership through high ‑ quality financial insights, data integrity, and continuous process improvement, with a focus on driving standardization, automation, and operational efficiency through the use of reporting tools, ERP systems, and emerging digital and AI ‑ enabled solutions.
Working closely with cross ‑ functional teams and global stakeholders, the Manager ensures adherence to service level commitments, strengthens financial control environments, and contributes to operational excellence across finance operations.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, 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 our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
This role is part of the Shared Services / Global Finance Operations organization and is responsible for delivering end ‑ to ‑ end finance and accounting support across core finance processes, including FP&A, General Accounting, Financial Reporting & Analysist. The Finance Operations Manager ensures accurate, timely, and compliant financial processing and reporting in alignment with applicable accounting standards, internal control frameworks, and organizational policies.
The position plays a critical role in managing period ‑ end close activities, statutory and management reporting, balance sheet governance, reconciliations, and variance analysis, while also supporting financial control and governance over accounting policies, judgments, and critical estimates. Acting as a key support to controllership functions, the role helps ensure the integrity, completeness, and accuracy of financial records and a strong internal control environment.
The role supports business and finance leadership through high ‑ quality financial insights, data integrity, and continuous process improvement, with a focus on driving standardization, automation, and operational efficiency through the use of reporting tools, ERP systems, and emerging digital and AI ‑ enabled solutions.
Working closely with cross ‑ functional teams and global stakeholders, the Manager ensures adherence to service level commitments, strengthens financial control environments, and contributes to operational excellence across finance operations.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, 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 our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Erp Systems
Financial Reporting
Fp&A
General Accounting
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