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.

• 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.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related
• 4+ years' work experience preferable within the financial services industry
• Due to the nature of this position, as a part of our background check process, candidates must be able to pass a non-registered fingerprint background check to qualify as a fingerprinted person under FINRA

• 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

• 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