MetLife

 The Team You Will Join 

The Internal Audit Department plays a key role in the internal control system of MetLife. Its mandate is to provide independent and objective assurance over the design and effectiveness of internal controls to mitigate risks and to provide advisory services designed to improve the operations. This role will be a contributing member of the Audit Team that supports our Group Benefits and will primarily be responsible for assisting the lead auditor with testing and other project-related tasks.

An auditor assists throughout the audit lifecycle to efficiently execute and document project level. This role embraces and models MetLife Success Principles while contributing to department strategy and activities. Auditors help set priorities, meet deadlines, and escalate issues where necessary.

The Opportunity 

The Auditor will be responsible for enabling responsible growth within MetLife by developing and performing control tests to ensure that the business is performing as expected.  This will touch on both our externally facing processes, ensuring our customers are being paid correctly, and internally facing processes, ensuring our pricing and reporting is being performed correctly. This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with a audit/control mindset who wants to learn about our retirement business.  It provides an opportunity to see different aspects of the business, from product development to customer payment, while providing advice to senior leadership on the tools and processes used to manage the business. Success in this role requires a detail-oriented person who can learn and evaluate processes and propose improvements to management.

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

• Performs and documents audit and issue testing 
• Meets project deadlines and all quality expectations
• Supports the audit team plans and objectives
• Actively manages development of professional career 
• Manages upward and across through effective communication, influence, and negotiation 
• Routinely studies change to industry trends, audit practices, regulatory requirements, and risk frameworks to understand their impact on assigned tasks
• Assists the Lead Auditor with project tasks as assigned 

What You Need to Succeed (Required Qualifications)

• 1-5 years of audit or relevant business experience
• Pursuing relevant business certification (CPA, CIA, etc.)
• Effectively communicates with other Auditors, Lead Auditor, and clients 
• Basic to intermediate understanding of current and emerging trends and risks as well as operations, policies, and procedures frameworks 
• Analytical skills, problem solving, sound business judgment
• Basic to intermediate understanding of tools used for data analysis and analytics, and project management tools and techniques