Accountant

Posted 4 Days Ago
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Tampa, FL
Hybrid
Entry level
Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Financial Services • Big Data Analytics
At MetLife, we’re a purpose-driven company that helps our customers build a more confident future.
The Role
The Accountant role at MetLife requires supporting financial data reporting and analysis, ensuring data integrity, and managing accounting functions in alignment with close schedules. The candidate will prepare reports and validate financial data, collaborating across teams to facilitate informed business decisions.
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Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
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. We're united by our purpose to help our customers and each other create a confident future; we're guided by empathy; and we're inspired by each other to make a difference in the lives of our coworkers, customers, communities, and the world at large. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
The associate will contribute to the overall understanding and reporting of MetLife's Corporate & Other results. This candidate will work closely with their manager and other members of the team in support of the financial close processes, which include data integrity, ledger activity and research, and will also interact with various lines of business and functional areas. The Corporate and Other team collectively performs a wide range of tasks in support of GAAP and Statutory reporting requirements. These tasks include, but are not limited to, the involvement of corporate initiatives, reinsurance, enterprise-wide segment eliminations, investment portfolios, capital transactions and other holding company accounting.
Key Responsibilities:

  • Support accounting functions to report financial information timely and accurately according to the enterprise-wide close schedules
  • Validate financial data with supporting documentation
  • Communicates and provides management with reliable information needed to make strategic business decisions
  • Prepare reports and perform analysis on multiple periodic views of financial results
  • Maintain controlled and efficient processes


Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:

  • Excellent communication and critical thinking skills
  • Effective cross-team collaboration and relationship building skills
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
  • Eager to continually seek opportunities for improvement


Preferred:

  • Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting
  • Experience with MetLife financial systems (HFM, Cubus/EV, OAC, PeopleSoft)


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!
Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
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HQ: New York, NY
43,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1868

What We Do

Named one of Fortune’s “World’s Most Admired Companies,” MetLife is leading the global transformation of an industry we’ve defined for more than 150 years. At MetLife, every innovation and line of code is a lifeline for our customers and their families—from victims of natural disasters to people living with disabilities and beyond.  With operations in more than 40 markets and leading positions across the globe, MetLife’s building a workforce of diverse and empowered voices that all belong.  Join our remarkable journey—one in which you help write the next century of innovation in financial services—because with MetLife, making the world a better place is All Together Possible.

Why Work With Us

At MetLife, you’ll be working for a company whose purpose is to help customers throughout their life’s journey, and often in their most critical time of need. You’ll be a part of developing leading-edge platforms that will have a lasting impact on the lives and well-being of tens of millions of customers.

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