Want to join a team passionate about change? We are looking for enthusiastic change professionals to join the growing Change Team within Aviva Life as Business Analysts.

You’ll be playing a key role in projects ensuring that business outcomes are understood, delivered, and meet the strategic aims of Aviva. Responsible for delivering solutions that resolve the business problem and setting out its impacts and risks.

The successful candidate will have analysis skills and experience of working in a change environment. You will have experience of working as part of a project team and understanding project tools and techniques.

Analysis skills

• Problem Solver - Uses Business Analysis tools and techniques to solve business problems and explore and define implementable change

• Transferable analysis skills across key areas of business analysis

• Understanding and application of appropriate change methodology, benefit definition and realisation, quality assurance, reporting, supporting investment appraisal, governance, risk, security, CARDI, planning, providing timely insight and challenge

• Great communication skills exercised with a variety of stakeholders, adjusting content and style to the message and their needs

Commercial thinking

• Can identify cost and benefit drivers and use Balanced Scorecard or equivalent to understand how they relate to each other

• Able to identify tangible and intangible costs and benefits.

• Able to articulate the link between project deliveries and Aviva strategy

Change Maker

• Passionate - you have a vision for a better world for customers and colleagues, you are confident to share that vision and improve it using the diverse perspectives of others

• Challenger - Confident to challenge and present independent thought to others

• Decision maker - able to explore different perspectives and have the confidence to choose a way forward even when this is uncomfortable

• Self-Organiser - able to organise own work delivering to realistic timelines fitting in with the wider project

• Innovator - spots opportunities for change and improvement

• Collaboration - working with others to solve problems and build consensus

Great Team Player

• Collaborator - able to work with technical and business colleagues to achieve team goals

• Critical friend - able to challenge in a supportive and objective way

• You understand and encourage diversity in the team to bring out the best in everyone

• Committed to team goals and great customer outcomes

• Clear and effective communication within the team appreciating the needs and perspectives of other team members

Relationship Investor

• Confident in building a network and great working relationships that withstand challenge

• Able to build and use strong relationships to find ways forward, secure agreement to a course of action in the face of uncertainty, and be confident to call out and help resolution when things are not going to plan

• An open mind to view changes from different perspectives

• Clear focus on the Customer

Always Learning

• Focused on growth and development of yourself

• Promoter of lessons learned from project experience

• Ability to demonstrate learning from other situations and people and apply that experience to your own work

• Investing in improvements and best practice for Aviva’s change framework

What will you get for this role?

• Salary between £35,000 - £45,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for "Friends & Family". (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Guv Johal a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to Guv.Johal@Aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.