• The Head of IT Change, Corporate Functions provides change leadership, direction and development across the CIO area, creating business value through efficient and effective planning of change in critical programmes of the Corporate Functions portfolio.

  The role is focused on the delivery of change for three critical Finance programmes:

  IFRS17

  Capital Monitoring

  Forecasting PCI compliance

  At the same time, the role will work as the interface with Change Delivery (within IT Operations and Service) to coordinate overall resourcing of PM and BA’s for Corporate Functions portfolios. The role works alongside the Head of IT BP for Finance - ensuring alignment of the change in these critical programmes with overall Finance IT roadmap – and with all Corporate Functions IT BP’s in order to centralise planning of demand and resourcing of PM and BA’s.

  Key accountabilities include:

  • Shaping change strategy

  • Critical programme delivery within the Finance portfolio of change (IFRS17 and CM&F), creating value through the delivery of desired business outcomes

  • Shape effective change governance across Functions’ portfolio, including demand planning, resourcing, standardised reporting and adoption of best practices

  Accountable for:

  • Support the development of Finance transformation strategy that is impacted by IFRS17 and CM&F programmes

  • Collaborate with key senior colleagues across IT, Finance and relevant business areas to deliver change

  • Ensure programmes build for the future by adopting innovation, automation and new ways of working

  • Manage and evolve the shape of the IFRS17, CM&F and PCI programmes and projects to deliver outcomes

  • Maintain (and update as necessary) complex inter-dependent business cases

  • Negotiate and manage resourcing for the programmes across Aviva

  • Build team delivery capability that contributes to long term change capability and talent pipeline

  • Establish and lead effective risk identification, management and resolution

  • Align delivery to the Group CIO and Finance strategies and roadmaps.

  • Lead successful transition into BAU (considering service, cost, risk, people, processes)

  • As the demand / volume of work in the two key programme reduces, the scope of the role will potentially extend to other projects/programmes

  • Shape governance arrangements for programmes/projects that support high quality decision making and active management of risks

  • Coordinates tracking of programme/change technology status, budgets and spend

  • Work in partnership with IT BP Finance on the coordination across projects and deliverables supporting the wider Finance portfolio

  • Support resolution of programme definition and delivery issues across Corporate Functions CIO (act as change expert)

  • Coordinate demand planning across Corporate Functions CIO programmes and coordinate resourcing across IT: PM’s and BA’s (with Change Delivery function in Operations and Service), Platforms, GSP’s, Architects, Designers, etc

  • Drive clarity in the accountabilities of the roles and those of sponsors and senior executives

  • Operates in alignment and help shape and improve the Group Business Change standard

  • Ensure timely and effective engagement with vendors as part of change initiatives

  • Act as the overall lead for Corporate Functions CIO with regards to safeguarding change delivery

  What will you get for this role?

  • Competitive salary 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 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 Ben Parker a call on 07833 239394 or send an email to ben.parker@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

  
  
  
  
  

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