Head of BP&AD Expense Management and Analytics

Head Of BP&AD Expense Management And Analytics

The Opportunity The BP&AD Expense Strategic Finance Lead will work with business partners in Brand, Product & Affiliated Distribution (BP&AD) and within Corporate Finance to provide high quality information and analysis to facilitate assessment and reporting of business performance, identification of options and decision-making. This role will be critical to managing BP&AD expenses and ensuring clear and concise forecasting and reporting frameworks.

The role reports to the Head of BP&AD Strategic Finance within CFO, and will be partnering with Strategic Expense Management (SEM) and BP&AD Finance teams on a regular basis. This role will lead a total team of 5 including 2 direct reports and 3 indirect reports.

As the BP&AD Expense Strategic Finance Lead, you'll have an opportunity to contribute to helping our businesses grow profitably. You will develop and maintain strong knowledge of our business, products, and key industry metrics. You will utilize your understanding of the business' challenges and priorities to help drive decision-making. You will partner across Finance to understand the financials, leveraging data platforms to identify key information that will help to tell the story, while leveraging AI, automation and predictive analytics to increase the value and efficiency of our reporting.

You will provide support to CFO customers on performance, opportunities for cost efficiencies, benchmarking comparisons, and considerations for decision-making. You will contribute to engagement for change, innovation and value creation.

The Team In this role, you will join our BP&AD Strategic Finance team supporting our Mass Mutual Life Business, Wealth business, Institutional Solutions and MMFA distribution. The Strategic Finance team is a collaborative team whose members demonstrate accountability, agility, a dedication to be inclusive, strong business acumen, and show courage, even in the most difficult situations. Highly effective communication and influencing skills are key to successful relationship-building and the ability to articulate the reasoning and bases for recommendations and conclusions are imperative.

In addition, the ability to influence and challenge assumption in a matrixed organization will be essential. Our team demonstrates an inquisitive approach, asking probing questions to identify issues with specificity.

The Impact As the BP&AD Expense Strategic Finance Lead your work will impact strategic decisions made by your business partners; enabling better strategic decisions utilizing the financial data and tools. You will accomplish that through the responsibilities listed below:

• Drive and Support Strategic Expense Initiatives
• Design, Model and Analyze
• Monitor and Communicate Business Drivers and Results
• Collaborate, Communicate and Influence

The Minimum Qualifications

• Experience using data and information to analyze and communicate (in writing, orally and visually) the implications of business unit activity, leveraging business intelligence applications (Alation, Microstrategy, SQL queries etc.)
• Intellectual curiosity to continue learning and add breadth and depth to understanding.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with, challenge and influence senior business leaders and peers in using financial information and tools to identify options and make decisions across a matrixed organization
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to convey complex information in readily understandable terms
• Exceptional relationship building and influencing skills
• Proven ability to lead across a matrixed organization
• 10+ years of experience in finance or actuarial
• Knowledge of U.S. GAAP and statutory financial reporting requirements
• Experience with financial forecasting and quarter closes
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple deliverables

What You Can Expect at Mass Mutual Mass Mutual offers the opportunity to do meaningful work within a purpose-driven organization that values long-term impact over short-term outcomes. In this role, you can expect:

• Clear areas of ownership and accountability, with work that connects directly to company and…