Sr Operations Controls Analyst

Job Location: Virtual but must be commutable to one of MetLife's offices

Role Value Proposition

This role is a team member of the RIS Operational Controls and Reporting Team located in Tampa aligned to the Retirement and Income Solutions (RIS) business. This position ensures the proper control environment is in place to drive a consistent and effective operational approach across all RIS Operations supported businesses (US Pensions, Structured Settlements, Income Annuities) and partners closely with US Risk, GTO Risk, Audit and Compliance to maintain consistent reporting standards and approach to mitigate risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the RIS Operations and Service to ensure the implementation or enhancement of controls within their areas and mitigate applicable risks.
• Work with Internal/External Audit partners and relevant business partners to remediate audit identified issues. Ensure issue identification, root cause analysis and resolution.
• Identifies any trends and work with the leadership team to analyze and apply corrective action.
• Provide control improvement and best practice recommendations to RIS Service and Operations.
• Act as audit and compliance liaison to coordinate requests from internal and external audit and compliance reviews. 
• Track and manage audit/review deliverables, supporting documentation requests, walkthroughs and meetings.
• Assist with the review of policies, procedures, process flows, supporting documentations.
• Facilitates appropriate coordination, oversight and cascading of certain policy or regulatory considerations and execution within RIS Ops.
• Appropriately assess risk when business/operational decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding MetLife, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to policy, applying sound ethical judgment as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills

• Required: Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience required (a concentration in Finance, Business, Accounting, Risk Management, Internal Audit preferred)
• Working knowledge of the financial services/retirement/insurance industry, RIS operational transactions and processes supported (preferred, not required)
• Familiarity with execution of first line of defense review/ or operational risk testing and risk management principles
• Knowledge in testing, evaluating the adequacy of internal controls design and operating effectiveness
• Able to understand regulations and requirements; strong understanding of risks and controls
• Willingness to adapt and respond appropriately to demands, priorities and challenges
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office tools to include Word, Excel, Visio, and Powerpoint

Business Category

RIS / Centralized Financial Operations

Number of Openings

1

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