Director - Debt Analytics

Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
MetLife Investment Management is one of the largest institutional investors and asset managers in the world, with nearly $740 billion in combined managed assets. MIM's Global Real Estate and Agricultural offers an opportunity to shape thriving markets and drive meaningful impact. With one of the world's largest portfolios - spanning real estate, debt and equity, and agricultural mortgages - we connect expertise with discipline, investing across the risk spectrum - from core to opportunistic. Here, you'll collaborate with top professionals, navigate evolving markets and contribute to investments that drive performance through value creation and above-market returns. If you're looking for a role that combines strategic thinking with real-world impact, MetLife Investment Management is where you will make a difference.
The Opportunity
The Director- Debt Analytics, a senior role within the Research, Valuations & Analytics (RVA) team, is responsible for analyzing and understanding the composition and performance of MetLife Investment Management's commercial and agricultural mortgage portfolios. Providing expert knowledge of commercial mortgages and supporting systems, you will function as a strategic liaison across key internal stakeholders - including Finance, Portfolio Management, Investment Management, Treasury, Audit, and Senior Management. You will also support engagements with state regulators and both internal and external audit teams. In addition to its domestic responsibilities, the role has a global mandate, supporting the integration of international subsidiaries into MIM's systems and processes. Guided by our purpose - always with you building a more confident future - and our New Frontier strategy focused on stronger growth, attractive returns and all-weather performance, this is an exciting opportunity to utilize your high level of analytical skills and the ability to independently execute complex tasks and have an impact on the organization.
Key Responsibilities

• Deliver High-Impact Portfolio Analytics: Produce insightful analysis and reporting for internal and external stakeholders, leveraging deep knowledge of commercial and agricultural mortgage portfolios and related systems.
• Execute Critical Portfolio & Client Deliverables: Provide timely, accurate portfolio analysis; coordinate responses to Investment Management client inquiries; and complete regulatory, rating agency, and industry surveys.
• Drive Systems, Process & Data Innovation: Lead development of mortgage management and database solutions; define business requirements and support UAT; and champion automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and data quality initiatives.
• Support Core Financial, Risk & Reporting Requirements: Serve as the primary source for portfolio composition and holdings; maintain reporting for senior leadership; support market value, CECL, RBC, ALM, audit, SOX, and external financial reporting (e.g., Earnings Calls, 10-K/10-Q, statutory filings).

Required Qualifications

• 10+ Years of investment experience.
• Fixed income investment knowledge (e.g. cash flows, pricing and data elements).
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills; including ability to generate new approaches and ideas to improve efficiency and information quality.
• Advanced data analysis skills, including ability to identify and mitigate data issues.
• Advanced commercial and agricultural mortgage investment knowledge (e.g., loan characteristics, cash flows, pricing and data elements).
• Ability to manage a wide variety of analysis and reporting responsibilities very efficiently and under tight timeframes.
• Working knowledge of GAAP reporting and accounting requirements.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree and/or professional designations preferred.
• The ideal candidate will lead the adoption of advanced analytics, including AI and LLM technologies, to enhance portfolio insights, automate reporting, and develop new, repeatable capabilities. Experience with Python, SQL, and Power BI is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of STAT reporting and accounting requirements.

Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $140,000 to $165,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
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 including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, 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 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!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
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MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
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