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Financial Reporting Controls Audit Consultant

Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts

Thank you to our employees for voting us one of the top places to work in Massachusetts for five consecutive years!

Overview

A career with us means you’ll help our customers secure their future and protect the ones they love. It also means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable, and ethical business.

Our culture embodies the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. By valuing people for who they are, how they think, and what they bring to the table, we’ve become a better, more innovative company.

We invite you to explore the possibilities.

What our employees say

Roger Crandall
Roger CrandallCEO
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”

Job Description

Financial Reporting Controls Audit Consultant

MassMutual Corporate Audit Team

Full-Time

Boston, MA or Springfield, MA

The Team

The MassMutual Corporate Audit Team is located in both Boston and Springfield. If you are a risk professional who is looking to leverage your skills at a company that is focused on transforming the life insurance business while helping people secure financial freedom and protect the ones they love, the below noted role is for you. You will use your skills to partner and collaborate with peers and clients to support a financial controls reporting focused audit plan. You will help drive positive change across the organization with opportunities to improve internal controls through value-added recommendations. In this role, you will demonstrate accountability, agility, a dedication to be inclusive, a strong business acumen, and will show courage, even in the most difficult situations. We also highly value strong communication skills, a passion for learning, leadership traits, resilience and self-awareness.

The Impact:

  • Conducts audits and advisory services in accordance with professional standards and department policies and procedures, while demonstrating a strong understanding of risk concepts, including inherent and residual risks as well as how to assess the design and effectiveness of internal controls, focusing on financial reporting controls.
  • Delivers medium scale, more complex, risk-based, financial reporting controls audits, working with business management and other risk/control functions, to ensure that controls are effective in managing risks.
  • Monitors control deficiencies impacting the Company’s financial statements, validating effective remediation plans and timely closure.
  • Develops and nurtures relationships with business management and other constituencies, focusing on the customer and strengthening business value add.
  • Demonstrates an intense can-do attitude and delivers results on cross-team efforts that increase Corporate Audit’s value and effectiveness.
  • Demonstrates accountability, agility, a dedication to be inclusive, a strong business acumen, and will show courage, even in the most difficult situations.
  • Promotes team business knowledge and client relationships, influencing and providing advice, such that the team represents a highly sought after analytic business partner.

The Minimum Qualifications

  • 4+ years’ work experience preferable within the financial services industry
  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related
  • Must be able to pass a backgroudn check required under FINRA rules

The Ideal Qualifications

  • CPA preferred
  • MBA, CIA, CFA or other professional designation
  • Experience using data analytics in audits
  • Knowledge of US GAAP and statutory accounting/reporting
  • Displays excellent communication skills both orally and written
  • Demonstrates versatility in communicating up, down and across the organization by working with others and lead discussions with various levels of management across the enterprise
  •  Strong understanding of risk concepts including inherent and residual risks as well as how to assess the design and effectiveness of internal controls
  • Works independently, enthusiastically engaging clients and peers to complete value-added assignments within the defined project scope and timelines
  • Possesses high integrity, professional skepticism and strong business sense
  • High responsiveness and flexibility to changing business priorities and tight deadlines
  • Strong analytic and problem-solving capabilities
  • Ability to identify solutions that effectively address business and control needs

    What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

    • Regular meetings with teams across business management
    • Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
    • Access to mentorship opportunities
    • Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
    • Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
    • Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical foundation with industry leading pay and benefits

    About MassMutual

    We’ve been around since 1851. During our history, we’ve helped millions of people find financial freedom, offer financial protection, and plan for the future.

    Today, we continue to develop meaningful relationships with our customers by building their trust, being knowledge problem solvers and always prioritizing their needs. MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company owned by our policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to put customers first. It’s more than our company structure – it’s our way of life.  

    MassMutual was recognized as an Ethisphere 2019 World’s Most Ethical Company, a Top Place to Work in 2019 according to The Boston Globe and named among America’s Best Employers for Diversity according to Forbes 2020. MassMutual ranks No. 84 on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies. 

    MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.

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    MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.

    If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
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    MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment.


    Salary Range: $84,100.00-$110,300.00

    Hiring Process

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    • Interview

      If you are invited for an interview, you will be scheduled to meet with the hiring manager and hiring team. Coordinating calendars for interview schedules can take time, so your patience and flexibility is appreciated.

    • Offer

      If you are extended an offer to join MassMutual and accept, your start will be contingent upon a satisfactory background check.

    • Hire

      If you accept the offer, we will be so excited to welcome you to the MassMutual community!

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    Award-Winning Culture

    MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure—it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.

    We strive to embrace diversity in every sense, focusing on building a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.

    At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.

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    Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)

    There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1250 annual wellness wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.

    Explore some of our offerings below. Full benefits details can be found here

    • In addition to generous vacation time, paid holidays, and flexible holidays, MassMutual offers 'take care' time to take care of yourself or someone you love—whether for physical illness or mental health.
    • Medical and dental insurance
    • Life, disability short-term and long-term insurance
    • Well-being wallet: $1,250 per year for a wide range of qualifying wellness expenses
    • Well-being support: Mindfulness, nutrition, fitness
    • Personalized mental health solutions
    • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement programs
    • Competitive salary and bonuses
    • 401(k): Up to 10% total benefit, consisting of a 5% company match and a 5% annual contribution
    • Educational assistance program
    • Childcare support
    • Financial counseling
    • Caregiver Leave (up to 320 hours)
    • Maternity Leave (a total of 18 weeks, 10 maternity + 8 parental)
    • Parental Leave (8 weeks for all parents, birth or adoption, continuous or intermittent)
    • Bereavement Leave: Up to 15 days to mourn the loss of a loved one, and you define 'loved one'
    • Matching Gift: 100% match on employees’ charitable contributions to non-profits up to $5,000
    • Volunteering: Three paid days for employees to volunteer with eligible nonprofits of their choice
    • Matching time: MassMutual Foundation awards dollars to organizations for which employees volunteer
    • Qualified Commuter Program through which eligible employees can pay qualified workplace commuting expenses with before-tax dollars
    • Commuter wallet option for employees based at Boston and NYC campuses

    Why MassMutual?

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    Compliance Consultant
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    Service Management Consultant
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    Head of Experience Journey Mapping

    How we work

    MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.

       

      

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    Where we work

    Springfield Office

    1295 State Street,
    Springfield, MA

    Boston Office

    10 Fan Pier Blvd,
    Boston, MA

    New York Office

    2 Park Ave,
    New York, NY

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