Expense & Vendor Management Consultant

Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
On MetLife's Data & Analytics Strategy, Planning, and Portfolio Management team, what you build here matters. We view our solutions through the eyes of the customers, striving to transform and simplify their experience. Whether your focus is on keeping our customers' and employees' data and information safe, developing best-in-class digital and cloud solutions, or leveraging data and analytics to transform customer insights into customer-first solutions, you make an impact for the customers we serve. We each play an integral role in bringing MetLife's purpose of building a more confident future to life.
This newly created role offers an exciting opportunity to support financial planning, workforce tracking, vendor governance, and operational reporting across the U.S. D&A organization. Reporting directly to the Director of Expense and Vendor Management, you'll gain hands-on experience in enterprise financial operations and vendor management while helping to build and standardize processes that improve transparency and scalability across teams.
This role is a great fit for someone looking to grow into a Senior Financial Analyst or Vendor Management Lead role over time.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning & Reporting:

• Assist in key processes related to preparing, submitting, and reconciling monthly financial forecasts and annual budgets
• Contribute to the creation of variance analyses and commentary.
• Help with the tracking of cost centers, billing activities, forecast changes and budget transfers.
• Support the development of consolidated financial views for leadership reporting.

Workforce & Operational Support:

• Maintain accurate records of FTE and FTC headcount across D&A pillars.
• Partners with Team leads to reflect workforce changes in planning tools.
• Support reporting needs for labor cost tracking and capacity planning.

Process Improvement & Collaboration:

• Contributes to the development of standardized templates and reporting frameworks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistency and scalability in financial operations.
• Participate in tool enhancements and automation initiatives to improve reporting efficiency.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:

• 3-5 years of experience in financial planning, analysis, or workforce planning.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or relevant experience.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, including pivot tables and advanced formulas.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills.

Preferred:

• Willingness to learn financial systems such as Apptio and other enterprise tools.
• Curiosity and openness to using automation and AI tools (e.g., Copilot) to improve workflows

At MetLife, we're leading the global transformation of an industry we've long defined. United in purpose, diverse in perspective, we're dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our customers.
The expected salary range for this position is $76500 to $102,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. 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, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2025 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 empathy, 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.
$76500 to $102,000
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