AVP, Operational Risk-Fraud & Corp. Functions

Join our Global Risk Management Group, where you’ll play a key role in safeguarding the company, ensuring we deliver on our commitments to customers and stakeholders, and driving responsible growth. As part of our team, you’ll identify, monitor, and mitigate both financial and non-financial risks across the organization. Leverage your expertise as the second line of defense to advise our business on effective risk management strategies.

This means challenging ideas, implementing robust controls, and enforcing guardrails to foster responsible business growth. Join us in advancing Met Life’s legacy of trust through exemplary risk management practices.

The AVP, Enterprise Operational Risk – Fraud Risk & Corporate Functions is responsible for providing second-line oversight of Fraud Risk and selected Corporate Functions, strengthening risk governance, transparency, and credible challenge across Met Life’s global organization. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how Met Life anticipates and responds to evolving fraud and non-financial risks, including AI-related developments, while partnering with senior leaders to deliver actionable insight that strengthens resilience and supports long-term performance.

• Lead second-line oversight for Fraud Risk and provide operational risk coverage across assigned Corporate Functions and horizontal non-financial risk areas within this space.
• Execute core second-line responsibilities, including risk identification, assessment, issue oversight, and transparent reporting of material risk themes.
• Strengthen fraud risk governance through credible challenge, cross-functional coordination, and leadership of the Fraud Risk Forum.
• Assess major initiatives, transformations, and business process changes to ensure fraud and operational risks are considered early and addressed effectively.
• Synthesize emerging fraud and broader operational risk signals into actionable insights, while promoting consistent risk standards and strong enterprise coordination across key stakeholders.
• Lead second-line oversight for Fraud Risk and provide operational risk coverage across assigned Corporate Functions (Finance, Human Resources, Government and Legal Affairs, Marketing & Communications) and horizontal non-financial risk areas within this space.
• Execute core second-line responsibilities, including risk identification, assessment, issue oversight, and transparent reporting of material risk themes.
• Strengthen fraud risk governance through credible challenge, cross-functional coordination, and leadership of the Fraud Risk Forum.
• Assess major initiatives, transformations, and business process changes to ensure fraud and operational risks are considered early and addressed effectively.
• Synthesize emerging fraud and broader operational risk signals into actionable insights, while promoting consistent risk standards and strong enterprise coordination across key stakeholders.

• 12+ years of experience in operational risk, non-financial risk, compliance, internal audit, or related disciplines within a complex organization.
• Deep and practical fraud risk expertise, with the ability to provide credible oversight and effective challenge across a range of fraud risks, control environments, and business contexts.
• Strong understanding of operational, conduct, regulatory, and execution risks, and the ability to connect these disciplines to broader enterprise fraud risk exposures.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior stakeholders, exercise sound judgment, and influence outcomes through insight, challenge, and clear communication.
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills, with the ability to translate complex risk information into clear, decision-useful insights for leadership audiences, alongside awareness and use of emerging technology and AI-related risk considerations.

• Experience supporting enterprise initiatives, transformation efforts, or operating model changes in a large, matrixed organization.
• Familiarity with enterprise risk frameworks, risk assessment methodologies, and governance tools that support effective…