Strategic Expense Management Analyst - Enterprise Technology and Experience

The Opportunity
We are seeking a Strategic Expense Management Analyst to play a key role within the Strategic Expense Management team. This role is ideal for an experienced finance professional who brings strong analytical capabilities, financial acumen, and the ability to manage medium-complexity work with increasing independence.
You will support financial planning, analysis, and reporting for technology spend, while driving meaningful improvements across financial processes, insights, and decision-making.
The Team
You will join a collaborative Strategic Expense Management team that values accountability, continuous learning, and forward-thinking problem solving. Team members partner closely to ensure clear, accurate, and actionable financial insights that support strategic and operational outcomes across ETX and the broader CFO organization.
The Impact
In this role, you will support strategic decision-making, handle independent analysis, anticipate data or reporting needs, and proactively identify insights and improvements. Your work will support senior finance leads and provide financial transparency ensuring insights are timely, reliable and well communicated.
Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Lead components of annual budgets, long-range plans, and quarterly forecasts with increasing autonomy.
• Support month-end reporting deliverables, including data validation, variance analysis, and insights generation.
• Enhance and maintain financial models, templates, and tools; propose improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy.

Business & Performance Analysis

• Analyze financial and operational trends, proactively identifying risks, drivers, and opportunities.
• Support development of and tracking of KPIs to improve visibility into expense performance.
• Prepare recurring and ad-hoc financial reports with clear, concise insights supported by sound analysis.

Decision Support

• Provide deep analytical support for cost-management initiatives, business cases, and investment evaluations.
• Partner with Finance Business Partners to validate assumptions, highlight findings, and recommend next steps.
• Conduct medium-complexity scenario modeling and sensitivity analyses to inform decisions.

Process Improvement & Financial Systems

• Recommend and implement improvements in reporting processes, data quality controls, and automation opportunities.
• Identify areas to streamline forecasting, expense tracking, or analytic workflows.
• Support adoption of best-practice analytic methods, financial systems capabilities, and BI tools.

Collaboration and Communication

• Partner with cross-functional teams to gather inputs, clarify assumptions refine forecasts.
• Support preparation of presentation materials and summaries for reporting to senior management
• Participate in team meetings and contribute to knowledge sharing.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, expense management, or similar roles
• 2+ years of experience supporting senior leaders and business partners

Ideal Qualifications

• Exposure to technology finance or expense management
• Working knowledge of BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Strong proficiency in Excel (modeling, analytics) and PowerPoint (storytelling)
• Demonstrated ability to handle medium-complexity analytical work independently

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular meetings with the Strategic Expense Management team
• 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: $90,500-$118,700