MetLife

The Opportunity

The Director & Actuary – RIS Statutory Valuation is responsible for leading end-to-end U.S. Statutory valuation for MetLife’s Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) portfolio, ensuring accurate, timely, and well‑controlled financial results across the U.S. 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 work with complex payout annuity and retirement products that receive direct CFO and senior leadership attention.

In this role, you will translate sophisticated business activity into decision‑ready financial insights, partner closely with Controllers, Product, ALM/Investments, Actuarial IT, Audit, and Risk, and lead a global team to strengthen capital efficiency, balance‑sheet management, and governance across the franchise.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a global statutory valuation team across multiple locations, providing direction, coaching, and development.
• Create and continuously enhance efficient, scalable valuation processes to support monthly and quarterly U.S. Statutory reporting.
• Oversee model runs, administrator data feeds, assumption updates, SOX‑aligned controls, and audit readiness.
• Manage quarterly and monthly close cycles, competing priorities, and timely delivery of regulatory and management reporting.
• Develop tools, analytics, and insights to improve understanding of results, key drivers, and economic impacts.
• Coordinate deliverables and timelines across Controllers, Product, Actuarial, Risk, Asset Management, IT, and internal and external auditors.

Required Qualifications

• Actuarial credential (e.g., FSA or equivalent) with strong expertise in U.S. Statutory valuation and payout annuity modeling.
• Strong actuarial modeling and valuation skills, applied to complex retirement and income products.
• Proven leadership and communication skills, with the ability to present results and insights to senior leaders and business partners.
• Collaborative, analytical mindset with the ability to operate effectively in a highly controlled, cross‑functional environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Suggested 3+ years of experience in actuarial valuation roles, preferably within insurance or retirement solutions.
• Experience with valuation software such as PolySystems and/or FIS Prophet.
• Payout annuity and/or reinsurance knowledge strongly preferred.
• Experience leveraging data and analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Oracle, Alteryx, Databricks).
• Interest in automation, AI, and process innovation to drive efficiency and quality in actuarial reporting.