Director of Expense Accounting

Director of Expense Accounting

Corporate Expense Team

Full Time/ Springfield, MA

The Opportunity

The Director of Expense Accounting will support the Head of Expense Accounting and Allocation Modeling while leading key accounting operations that drive the accuracy and integrity of Mass Mutual's financial reporting. In this highly visible leadership role, you'll oversee the expense accounting team, ensuring a timely and accurate month-end close, a strong control environment, and compliance with U.S. GAAP and Statutory (NAIC/SSAP) requirements.

You'll partner closely with Finance, FP&A, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Tax, Treasury, and Controllership teams to deliver accurate financial results, strengthen governance processes, and support strategic business initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to influence critical accounting processes, lead a talented team, and help drive continuous improvement across the organization.

The Team

The Expense Accounting team is a key part of Mass Mutual's Controller organization, bringing together talented accounting professionals with diverse experiences and perspectives. Our team is responsible for delivering accurate, timely financial information and trusted guidance to stakeholders across the enterprise.

We foster a collaborative and inclusive environment where curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement are encouraged. By actively listening, sharing knowledge, and working together, we solve complex challenges and deliver meaningful results. As the organization continues to grow and evolve, our team is expanding to support new business initiatives, transformation efforts, and opportunities to enhance how we serve our customers and business partners.

The Impact

As a leader on our accounting team, you will oversee core expense accounting operations, ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and continuous process improvement. You will lead a blended onshore/offshore team, helping to assess risk, understand all their outputs, and lead tailored training to maintain/enhance professional standards and judgement.

Month-End Close Leadership

• Lead the monthly expense close process, including calendars, communications, deliverables, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Review and approve journal entries related to accruals, prepaids, allocations, reclassifications, and corrections.
• Analyze expense trends and variances, to appreciate expense norms and what can trigger deviations from those norms.
• Oversee close checklists, account reconciliations, and subledger-to-general ledger tie-outs.
• Collaborate with Accounts Payable, Procurement, Payroll, Treasury, and other partners to identify and address risks impacting the close process.

Accounting Controls & Governance

• Maintain a strong internal control environment supporting expense accounting processes.
• Ensure appropriate segregation of duties, access controls, and approval workflows.
• Partner with internal and external auditors on walkthroughs, testing, and audit requests.
• Lead control self-assessments and process risk reviews, implementing improvements that enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Drive compliance with documentation and evidence retention requirements.

Subsidiary & Legal Entity Expense Accounting

• Oversee expense accounting activities across subsidiaries and legal entities, including intercompany transactions and settlements.
• Ensure compliance with legal entity requirements, reporting structures, and accounting policies.
• Support cross-entity reconciliations and statutory reporting activities.
• Partner with subsidiary stakeholders to ensure accurate expense classification and reporting.

Fixed Assets & Capitalization

• Oversee Fixed Asset Accounting to ensure proper capitalization treatment.
• Support accounting activities related to depreciation, asset retirements, impairments, and construction-in-progress transfers.
• Review and approve expense reclassifications associated with capital projects and internally developed software.
• Maintain reconciliations and supporting schedules for capital project-related accounts.

Lease Accounting

• Oversee Lease Accounting activities and related expense recognition.
• Partner with lease…