This is a Fixed Term contract (FTC) opportunity until March 2023.

The purpose of this role is to manage and deliver this activity for Aviva’s key finance programmes, working as part of a team a team to ensure that the methodology is appropriately applied across the processes in scope, and performing the assurance activity required to support both the local and Group reporting processes.

This will involve delivery of project level controls scoping & risk assessment activity, ensuring appropriate engagement and support for development & implementation of controls in the project environment, process walkthroughs and talkthroughs, delivery of independent assurance activity, including design and operational effectiveness testing and assessment of control issues.

This role will also provide SME input and delivery support to the wider FRCF team.

Ensuring effective and embedded risk management is imperative at Aviva and as part of this role you will play a key part in ensuring an appropriate culture is in place to support and improve the risk and control environment.  The role provides an opportunity to help upskill the Finance community in understanding what a good control environment looks like and to emphasise the role that they have to play in this regard.

Duties & responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for delivery FRCF assurance activity for key Projects, which are key to the delivery of external financial reporting for Group - you will be responsible for working across both Project and FRCF teams, you will be required to work both independently and as part of a team supporting with delivery of this activity

• You will be responsible for working with FRCF senior managers to agree with local, Group & project stakeholders the assurance activity required to be performed throughout the year, including timing and prioritisation of this activity

• This will support key project deliverables as well as Annual, Half yearly and quarterly reporting, and will cover IFRS, SII and APM reporting

• You will be responsible for delivery of input to governance activities, including being responsible for provision of inputs to relevant market and Group level FRCF forums and programme steering committees, including relevant stakeholder management around these

• You will take an active role on the co-ordination and delivery of the relevant quarterly and year end certification process over the effectiveness of the internal controls over financial reporting

• The role is responsible for taking an active role in producing and co-ordinating the delivery of management information over FRCF for both local and Group stakeholders, including the market level and Global FRCF forums as well as project reporting

• Proactively managing your relationship with key stakeholders, including market FRCF leads and process owners, internal audit and external audit stakeholders

Skills & experience we're looking for:

• Recent audit experience (external audit or internal audit)

• Experience and knowledge of life or general insurance

• Risk and controls delivery experience, including SOx and internal risk and controls management

• Knowledge and experience of financial reporting controls

• Recent experience of audit/review of IT controls applicable for financial reporting

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), with the ability to communicate complex issues in an easily understood manner

• Relationship management skills to achieve objectives through others and maintain effective stakeholder relationships across both the businesses/markets and external suppliers

• Effective influencing skills with people at all levels internally and externally with the ability to build credible working relationships

• Ability to prioritise workload effectively to meet deadlines whilst maintaining high quality of outputs

• Ability to contribute and input into initiatives and developments which drive the wider Aviva controls agenda

• Work as a part of a highly motivated team to deliver the whole team objectives

What will you get for this role?

• A salary between £40,000-£50,000 depending on 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 responsibility, 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 Daniela Krol a call on 0121 234 7660 or send an email to daniela.krol@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.