VP Corporate Systems Actuarial & Treasury

Location:Cary, North Carolina

City:Cary, New York

Country:United States

Working Schedule:Full-Time

Work Arrangement:Hybrid

Travel Required:25%

Relocation Assistance Available:Yes

Posted Date:08-Jan-2025

Job ID:6061

Description and Requirements

Title:VP, Global Corporate Systems, Actuarial/Treasury

Location:New York, NY

Alternate Location(s):Cary, NY

Setting:Hybrid

Reports to Title:SVP, CIO-Global Corporate Systems

Travel:< 25%

The Opportunity

MetLife's new Vice President, Global Actuarial, Reinsurance and Treasury Technology leader will play the key engineering leadership role in spearheading the organization’s efforts in optimizing functional processes through innovative technology solutions.

This role entails driving the implementation of Agile methodologies and development practices, ensuring that the IT product and engineering teams effectively execute multi-phase initiatives from conception to final delivery and maintenance.

This leader will partner closely with the offices of MetLife's Chief Actuarial Leader, Chief Treasury Officer, and the Global Reinsurance Leader to establish modern, technology-driven corporate functions and operating models.

Leveraging product-led agile delivery approaches and integrating this engineering team with each business function, this individual will help adopt an iterative approach to continually empower MetLife's functional professionals through enhanced technology capabilities.

As the head of technology supporting MetLife's functions, this individual will oversee a portfolio of interconnected applications and the team tasked with solution design, demand/capacity planning, resource allocation, release planning, and timely delivery of initiatives.

This individual will partner with colleagues across these functional areas to build strategic roadmaps for their respective departments and drive the entire portfolio to agile delivery.

The successful candidate will be a visionary leader with a strong background in actuarial science, financial risk management, and technology, capable of guiding teams through complex challenges while delivering impactful results.

The role is accountable for the high-quality deliverables as defined in the product roadmap, for the engineering and operational metrics, and for operating within financial parameters.

How You’ll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

Leadership & Strategy:Provide strategic direction and leadership across people, finance, process, and technology dimensions, ensuring alignment with the organization’s long-term goals and value streams.

Agile Implementation:Champion Agile practices, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement within the Corporate Systems Technology organization.

Program Management:Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of technology initiatives, creating detailed plans, schedules, and resource allocations while maintaining transparent communication regarding project status.

Technical Delivery:Responsible for end-to-end, long-term lifecycle and technical direction of IT product engineering teams including multi-phased initiatives from original concept through final implementation and maintenance.

Quality Assurance:Ensure high-quality deliverables aligned with the product roadmap, operational metrics, and financial parameters, holding teams accountable for their performance.

Stakeholder Engagement:Collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to refine objectives and enhance product offerings, driving measurable value for the business.

• Strategic planning incorporating emerging technology trends, industry standards, regulatory, and legal considerations culminating in technology roadmaps to drive business partner decision making.
• Serve as a strong change agent and a visionary leader with the ability to lead and inspire technology professionals to succeed in a fast-changing market.
• Partner and influence stakeholders at the senior most levels in the organization; participate in strategic planning boards and discussions.
• Develop and implement the purpose and strategy based on the business partner objectives across all domains; align goals, execute flawlessly.
• Proven ability to apply broad industry knowledge and external perspective toward structuring and executing solutions to complex business problems.
• Deliver global technology solutions for large, complex programs focused on end-to-end technology capabilities support actuarial processes.
• Lead design, development and testing of modeling capabilities while implementing best practices for model end to end automation.
• Responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating IT-related risks to ensure the integrity and availability of information assets.
• Manage investing in the business initiatives as well as running the business through tight focus on operating expense and transparency of costs.
• Drive forward the DevOps and agile methods to simplify processes, increase automation and speed of delivery.
• Continually recruit, retain, rotate, develop a diverse team to ensure new technologies and innovation are forefront for the team.
• Lead the technical strategy and roadmap creation for a business unit of products, focused on building the Solution capabilities aligned to the Solution strategy.
• Manage and resolve interdependencies, risks, conflicts, and impediments.
• Plan and lead team to implement audits and controls to identify and prevent future IT and operational risks.
• Responsible for IT Vendor relationships and contracts. Leads negotiations with vendors for best in class pricing.
• Optimize Product/Business Unit software delivery through continuous focus on software development, maintenance metrics and KPIs.
• Key partner with business, advocating for prioritization technology solutions in the Agile Delivery model.
• Develop and manage the product budget including maintenance, infrastructure and annual discretionary portfolio of projects.
• Thought leader on emerging technology trends and capabilities that align to a large Product portfolio.
• Ensuring the team has the technical competencies to meet the product capability needs aligned to the customer.
• Matrix management responsibility for cross functional team members aligned to product team.
• Manage approximately 12 direct reports and a team of approximately 300 FTEs and contractors.

What You Need to Succeed (Required Qualifications)

Ten years of technology leadership experience in function-level technology leadership roles.

Five years of experience managing Treasury platforms with experience in market, credit, and/or operational risk platforms.

Five years of experience managing finance and treasury technologies with experience in quantitative modeling platforms.

Five years of experience in the financial industry with experience in regulated insurance or banking sectors.

Experience leading an application portfolio modernization program with experience modernizing a portfolio of applications and adopting cloud capabilities.

Experience with modern technology capabilities and methodologies including product-led agile delivery and public cloud.

Team leadership experience of organizations of more than 100 employees.

Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred with a STEM concentration.

-Prior experience with actuarial model development with proven track-record for driving process improvements.

-Experience with delivery in agile working style.

-Highly motivated individual who can work equally well independently and in a team environment.

Critical Leadership Capabilities

Driving Results

• Acts to surpass team goals set for the technology team.
• Sets continually higher goals for the technology team that are ambitious but achievable.
• Identifies and acts on new opportunities that enable performance targets to be exceeded.
• Seeks new challenges and is energized by exceeding targets.

Collaborating and Influencing

• Identifies all necessary stakeholders and connects with them to gain support or agreement.
• Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach.
• Takes advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships to achieve a specific outcome.
• Engages others in open dialogue and adapts own influence approach to different stakeholders.
• Anticipates emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to pre-empt them.

Acting Strategically

• Creates a 2-3-year technology roadmap to support each corporate function's business strategy and objectives.
• Identifies and prioritizes the most critical future factors to consider in making decisions.
• Makes plans to address changes or trends in the external landscape.
• Develops plans that consider the impact beyond own area.

The salary range for applicants for this position is $213,200 - $284,300.

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, 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", 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.

Join us!

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