This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract (FTC) opportunity.

The role plays an important role in leading the delivery of quality assurance activity over Financial Risk & Control Framework (FRCF) work and assurance activity performed by FRCF teams across the group. The purpose of this quality assurance activity is to ensure that the Aviva Group’s FRCF methodology is followed and applied consistently across all in-scope markets. This role will also be responsible for leading proactive deep dive activity, with the objective of driving greater consistency of application of FRCF across markets and processes and to facilitate identification and sharing of best practice from both a controls and financial reporting process perspective.

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.

What will the role involve?

• Planning and delivery of an annual schedule of QA activity across in-scope FRCF markets, covering all elements of the methodology

• Planning and delivery of cross-market thematic deep dive reviews to drive consistency of approach and application of FRCF methodology

• Reporting on ongoing delivery, including provision of regular management information and input in the key governance forums, including local and Global FRCF forums and local and Group Audit Committee reporting

• Attendance and presenting at the relevant governance forums, including Local and Global FRCF forums

• Proactively managing key stakeholders, including market FRCF leads and process owners, to ensure work is delivered effectively and issues are appropriately escalated, and remediation plans agreed and implemented

• Taking a leading role in identifying and sharing best practice on FRCF across the Group

• Take leading role on assessment of deficiencies in line with the FRCF methodology and support with identification of remediation actions

• Work closely with the FRCF methodology and reporting SFM on identification and implementation of improvements to the FRCF methodology and FRCF toolkit

• Provide SME and delivery support to wider FRCF team to ensure timely delivery of FRCF assurance activity across key reporting cycles, including review of work performed by the FRCF team

Skills & experience we're looking for:

• Experience and knowledge of life insurance and general insurance highly desirable

• 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 competitive 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.