Investment Accounting Manager - Strategic Programs

About the role

This Investment Accounting Manager role is a newly created position that will be a key addition to our Investment and Corporate Subsidiaries Controllership team. You will join us as we continue our progress towards becoming best in class financial stewards for MassMutual. We are forward-thinking and seek others who will leverage their curiosity and take initiative. Join us as a partner who will work collaboratively and with determination to leave the company in a better place than you found it. As a senior accounting associate, you will be an experienced accounting professional who wants to work with a diverse team of highly motivated professionals focused on proactively driving the development and execution of process improvement, meaningful analysis and control execution for investment and corporate subsidiaries accounting activities. This work schedule is a hybrid structure to maximize collaboration and flexibility, blending time working remotely and in the office, at our Boston, MA and Springfield, MA locations. The Team The Investment and Corporate Subsidiaries Controllership team is a high-profile team in the Controllers organization, comprised of accounting professionals who oversee our various asset classes investment activities and subsidiary activities. The team continues to grow in support of our growing level of assets, key initiatives and special projects. Our team is driven to provide timely and accurate financial information to our customers. We pride ourselves on working with agility and being a reliable source of information in the organization. while continuously improving how we work together as a team to make our processes better. Our culture thrives on inquisitive approaches to our work to help identify issues with specificity and demonstrate high levels of accountability to make things right. MassMutual is seeking a candidate to plan and lead the execution of various strategic programs across the Investments and Corporate subsidiaries teams, which entails ensuring proper design, implement and test of new systems and processes to achieve data quality and operational efficiencies. This position will also support continued process enhancements related to achieving an accelerated close that produces timely, accurate and complete investment accounting results in an efficient manner. All candidates must, in addition to possessing the specific qualifications cited below, work well within a complex, fast-paced, fluid environment, and strong organizational and interpersonal skills. The Impact: Creates an environment whereby the team is inspired, engaged and motivated by identifying opportunities to learn and grow Plays a key role in leading a collaborative and inclusive culture by working closely on projects with Investment Management Operations, Investment Managers and other Controllers teams Drive the participation and lead the execution of various cross-functional projects from the Investment and Coporate Subsidiaries team's perspective Responsible for accounting research on appropriate process design for complex investments and subsidiaries transactions Participate in process re-design as a result of the increased complexity in our investment strategies and advanced need of analytics for quarterly investments accounting results Leading the effort of investment accounting support for data quality requirements and process enhancements to ensure appropriate GAAP and STAT accounting and reporting Drive and oversees the plan, execution and testing of general ledger and sub ledger system transformation projects