Lead EMEA accounting, reporting, and reconciliations activities. Design and validate new reporting environment, validate data extracts versus PeopleSoft, prepare financial analysis and management reports, document risks and mappings, support testing and remediation, and coordinate with controllers and clients on reporting deliverables.
Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition
This role supports the EMEA Controllers organization as an individual contributor, combining finance activities with support for selected US GAAP reporting and analysis tasks when required. The role operates under senior finance leadership and collaborates closely with accounting, reporting, and data workstreams within PeopleSoft environment and future MetLife new reporting environment.
Key Responsibilities
Responsible for a wide range of functions related to General Accounting, Reporting and Reconciliations. It includes but is not limited to:
• Lead EMEA accounting and reporting input into the design and validation new reporting environment.
• Act as the primary accounting and reporting counterpart to new reporting environment.
• Oversee and review analysis of EMEA financial results, including balance sheet, earnings, and key variance analysis, as required.
• Support preparation and review of EMEA financial reporting and management reporting deliverables, where required.
• Identify, document, and escalate risks related to data integrity, reporting consistency, and financial reporting transition controls.
• Represent EMEA accounting and reporting requirements in governance forums, testing cycles, and cross-regional calls.
• Support analysis and documentation of EMEA accounting and reporting data structures for new reporting environment
• Prepare and maintain mapping, validation, and reconciliation files supporting the new reporting environment
• Validate new reporting environment data extracts and reports against PeopleSoft and other reporting outputs.
• Support analysis of EMEA financial results and preparation of supporting schedules, where required.
• Assist with preparation, review, and documentation of EMEA reporting and analysis deliverables (e.g., balance sheet support, variance analysis).
• Support testing cycles, issue tracking, and remediation related to data and reporting.
• Coordinate with Controllers and other teams on data consistency and documentation topics
• Providing support to Client Reporting Team
• Providing support to clients on ad-hoc tasks
• Planning and monitoring execution of deliverables
Education & Experience
CA with 8-10 years of experience in accounting, closing, and reporting activities
Technical Skills
- Knowledge of accounting & reporting
- Should possess experience in handling end-to-end financial closing activities
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, 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.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
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 our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Role Value Proposition
This role supports the EMEA Controllers organization as an individual contributor, combining finance activities with support for selected US GAAP reporting and analysis tasks when required. The role operates under senior finance leadership and collaborates closely with accounting, reporting, and data workstreams within PeopleSoft environment and future MetLife new reporting environment.
Key Responsibilities
Responsible for a wide range of functions related to General Accounting, Reporting and Reconciliations. It includes but is not limited to:
• Lead EMEA accounting and reporting input into the design and validation new reporting environment.
• Act as the primary accounting and reporting counterpart to new reporting environment.
• Oversee and review analysis of EMEA financial results, including balance sheet, earnings, and key variance analysis, as required.
• Support preparation and review of EMEA financial reporting and management reporting deliverables, where required.
• Identify, document, and escalate risks related to data integrity, reporting consistency, and financial reporting transition controls.
• Represent EMEA accounting and reporting requirements in governance forums, testing cycles, and cross-regional calls.
• Support analysis and documentation of EMEA accounting and reporting data structures for new reporting environment
• Prepare and maintain mapping, validation, and reconciliation files supporting the new reporting environment
• Validate new reporting environment data extracts and reports against PeopleSoft and other reporting outputs.
• Support analysis of EMEA financial results and preparation of supporting schedules, where required.
• Assist with preparation, review, and documentation of EMEA reporting and analysis deliverables (e.g., balance sheet support, variance analysis).
• Support testing cycles, issue tracking, and remediation related to data and reporting.
• Coordinate with Controllers and other teams on data consistency and documentation topics
• Providing support to Client Reporting Team
• Providing support to clients on ad-hoc tasks
• Planning and monitoring execution of deliverables
Education & Experience
CA with 8-10 years of experience in accounting, closing, and reporting activities
Technical Skills
- Knowledge of accounting & reporting
- Should possess experience in handling end-to-end financial closing activities
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, 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.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
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 our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
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