Duties & Responsibilities

• Working closely with our UKGI Commercial Lines Finance Business Partnering team to support performance culture and expense progression through active monitoring as well as through challenging financial targets, plans and initiatives etc.

• Present key insights whilst highlighting risks and opportunities to the Commercial Lines’ senior leadership team (SLT), and Commercial Lines Finance Director and Business Partners

• Understand and support/challenge cost prioritisation within the Commercial Lines business to best support out strategic priorities and growth agenda – this role will involve regular discussions across the Commercial Lines business teams

• Manage the overall cost base in our systems (using Qlik & Anaplan primarily) – across month end and quarterly forecasts - working closely with cost centre owners in the business to understand activity, variances, and budget requirements

• Work with both People and Finance BPs as well as the wider business, to identify resourcing requirements & affordability, factoring into cost & FTE outlooks

• Identify and lead/support on specific cost deep dives

• Support OD changes / outcomes including modelling cost outcomes and embedding new structures

• Act as the key link between UKGI Expense Management Team and Finance BP, providing context, regular effective communication, and timely escalation of any key issues

• Advise on appropriate accounting treatment, to ensure accounting principles are adhered to – and then review and sign off monthly balance sheets

• Show awareness of, and adhere to, Aviva’s Risk & Control environment at all times

Skills & Experience required

• Prior experience working at in either a Finance (including FP&A) or Accountancy discipline (Expense knowledge would be helpful)

• Exposure to working within a large, regulatory business (Insurance sector experience would be advantageous)

• Comfortable completing monthly reporting / budget forecasting tasks

• Strong data handling skills including Excel knowledge

• Excellent communication skills, especially when challenging and influencing senior stakeholders

• Champions change and strives for process efficiencies and improved outcomes

What will you get for this role?

• Annual salary of £45,000 to £50,000, depending on skills, location, 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 and 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 Daisy Holmes a call on +44 7436 672007 or send an email to daisy.holmes@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.