The purpose of the Financial Reporting Control Framework (FRCF) team is to provide assurance to the Group CFO and Group Audit Committee in relation to effectiveness of the control environment over Aviva’s external financial reporting, key aspects of this include the ownership and maintenance of the Group’s FRCF methodology and provision of assurance activity over the implementation of this methodology.

The purpose of this role is to support delivery of this activity for Aviva’s UK Life business and perform the assurance activity required to support both the local and Group reporting processes.

This will involve preparing market level scoping & risk assessment activity to ensure appropriate coverage by the market FRCF team’s assurance activity over UK Life’s financial reporting processes (including IFRS, Solvency II and Alternative Performance Measure reporting),  performing and documenting process walkthroughs/talkthroughs and independent assurance activity, including design and operational effectiveness testing and assessment of control issues.

The role will involve communication with key UK life stakeholders and relevant process and control owners, working closely with them to ensure maintenance of a strong and effective control environment.

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.

What will the role involve?

• You will be responsible for performing FRCF assurance activity for the UK life Market.  This will support Annual, Half yearly and quarterly reporting, including IFRS, Solvency II and APM reporting

• You will be responsible for preparing Market level scoping & risk assessments

• You will liaise with local external auditors in relation to delivery of FRCF assurance activity and any areas of reliance for the external audit

• You will assist in the delivery of the quarterly and year end certification process to support certification over the effectiveness of the internal controls over financial reporting.

• The role is responsible for performing the continuous risk assessments over the financial reporting control environment, including the local quarterly process owner certification process

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

• You will work closely and co-ordinate with SME’s and specialists across the wider Risk & Controls team on delivery of certain aspects of FRCF assurance activity, for example IT controls, EUCs and actuarial SME’s

• Taking a role in identifying and sharing best practice on FRCF across the UK teams

• Provide delivery support to wider FRCF team to ensure timely delivery of FRCF assurance activity across key reporting cycles

What skills & experience we'd like to see:

• Recent audit experience (external audit or internal audit)

• Experience and knowledge of insurance – preferably Life 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

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

What will you get for this role?

• A salary starting from £45,000 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.