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MetLifeMetLife Brings Financial Planning onto Guidewire
MetLife, a financials organization in the United States, uses PolicyCenter from Guidewire to support planning and forecasting for FP&A.
MetLife standardized financial planning on Guidewire instead of keeping parallel copies.
“Inside MetLife, planning and forecasting used to depend on whoever still had the latest file.”
“FP&A needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.”
Independent write-up. Figures come from public sources or are illustrative.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because financial planning has a clear owner |
| Risk and compliance | PolicyCenter is the governed place FP&A use for planning and forecasting |
| Capability | New joiners can see how planning and forecasting actually runs |
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Inside MetLife, planning and forecasting used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in financials groups working out of the United States. FP&A needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
MetLife uses PolicyCenter from Guidewire as the working layer for financial planning. Guidewire makes core insurance software for policy, billing, and claims used by property and casualty carriers. The practical change is simple: planning and forecasting has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What MetLife gets from Guidewire is a durable place to run planning and forecasting and a way for FP&A to see the same financial planning at the same time.
