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Financial Management Consultant, Strategic Planning and Delivery-6
Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts
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Overview
A career with us 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 enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.
We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.
“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
The Opportunity:
The Financial Management Consultant is an integral part of the Strategic Planning and Delivery (SP&D) organization. He/she provides the financial oversight of the strategic spend portfolio.
The Team:
The SP&D Office oversees the planning, governance, and execution of strategic projects that drive transformation and growth. It ensures strategic alignment, prioritization, and value realization across MassMutual’s portfolio, partnering closely with divisional leadership. SP&D is known for its disciplined approach to financial oversight, cross-functional collaboration, and transparent governance processes. The team includes roles such as Workstream Leads, Finance Leads, Insight Leads, and Program Managers, each accountable for driving execution, managing budgets, and enabling decision-making through data and reporting.
The Impact:
The Financial Management Consultant is an integral part of the Strategic Planning and Delivery (SP&D) organization. He/she serves as the primary finance lead for a specific workstream(s) within SP&D, ensuring the financials driven by the projects are realized in the company’s general ledger, and is responsible for approving SP&D projects from financial perspective through multiple stages, enforcing SP&D policies to maintain financial discipling of SP&D. She/he will also conduct analysis of the portfolio and providing insights on the portfolio to support planning, prioritization and performance.
With this important role comes key accountabilities and responsibilities which include but are not limited to:
Strategic Consulting:
- Coach initiative owners on financial principles, assumptions and methodologies
- Ongoing consultation throughout cost benefit analysis (CBA) development
- Review and approve projects, from financial perspective, through stage gates
- Apply business judgment to eliminate potential overlaps across projects
- Ongoing support throughout the project execution phase from a financial perspective
- Validate projects benefits through financial statements
Portfolio Analysis:
- Project spend and benefits for the portfolio
- Analsyis changes in spend and benefits including drivers
- Work closely with Corporate Finance on forecast and variance analysis
- Development of governance mechanisms (i.e. dashboard) to provide transparency and progression of the portfolio / projects
- What if and scenario analysis
- Harvesting learnings from the portfolio to apply to future projects
The Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree
• 8+ years of work experience involving finance, actuarial, pricing, auditing or equivalent financial experiences
• Excellent analytical abilities
• Understanding of drivers of profitability within businesses
• Collaboration with stakeholders and providing independent objective perspectives
• Strong verbal and written communication (presentation) skills with the ability to synthesize and explain complex topics to senior leaders
The Ideal Qualifications
Advanced degree or designation preferred: CPA or FSA or MBA or equivalent degree or designation
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
- Regular meetings with the SP&D team, initiative owners and stakeholders in the business
- Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
- 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 business with industry leading pay and benefits
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Salary Range: $128,000-$168,000
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By the numbers*
- 85% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say the work they do at MassMutual is meaningful - 85% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things
*Source: 2025 MassMutual employee engagement survey
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 build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
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.
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 $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Benefit details can be found here.
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