Report Developer

Role Value Proposition: 

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. We’re united by our purpose to help our customers and each other create a confident future; we’re guided by empathy; and we’re inspired by each other to make a difference in the lives of our coworkers, customers, communities, and the world at large. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!  

The Financial Management Group plays an essential role in MetLife’s success. Our teams take the lead on matters related to financial reporting, treasury, corporate actuarial, tax, investor relations, and mergers and acquisitions. We value an experimentation mindset and ensure teams have access to the latest tools and technology. As strategic partners, we provide deep subject-matter expertise to the businesses we support. This includes evaluating the current financial landscape and anticipating what’s next, enabling MetLife to maintain a healthy balance sheet to deliver for our shareholders and other stakeholders.

The Finance Technology team partners with the FMG and GTO Organizations to set strategy for MetLife’s enterprise core financial applications. This presents a valuable chance to contribute to the Finance team as it undertakes the transformation of its operations through the implementation of the cloud-based ERP solution, Workday. This role reports to the Director of Enterprise Finance Reporting. We are seeking an initiative-taking report developer, preferably with Workday, SQL, or Oracle Analytics/Financial Reporting experience. In this role, you will collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand their business information needs, interpret requirements, design, and build best-in-class BI and reporting solutions. MetLife Finance currently uses Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Essbase, Power BI and Hyperion Financial Reporting. We are looking for someone with familiarity with these or other reporting tools. This developer will join the team responsible for collecting requirements and creating reports in the new Workday environment as implementation continues over the coming years. This presents a unique opportunity to become involved at an early stage and develop ability in this emerging technology.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build new financial reports and reporting solutions from requirements, using an understanding of organizational business needs.
• Strong report development and analytical skills.
• Providing support to the development of training materials and training activities related to the BI tools and applications.
• Demonstrated ability presenting to small work groups on both technical and functional requirements.
• Ability to troubleshoot advanced issues that arise with reporting solutions.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

Required:

• Minimum 3-5 years’ work experience.
• Knowledge of Workday, PeopleSoft General Ledgers, and/or Oracle EPM applications (Essbase, Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services, Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management and/or Financial Close Manager), and/or OAC. 
• Work with minimal supervision managing complex workload.
• Ability to work with cross-functional, multi-location, multi-language teams.
• Drive resolution of escalated reporting issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred:

• At least 1 year of SQL experience.
• Strong MS Office experience (MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word).
• Workday report development experience.
• Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) experience.
• Hyperion Financial Reporting experience.
• Knowledge of concepts associated with data warehousing, data marts, and/or big data.
• Experience working with Service Now.

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.