New opportunity to join Aviva as a Legal Operations Support Consultant!

This highly varied and broad role involves a rare combination of core boardroom Company Secretarial support with operational and commercial activities.

The successful applicant will support the delivery of Company Secretarial and governance services to the Audit and Risk Committee of Aviva International Insurance Limited, including working with management and Chairs to set agendas, attending and minuting meetings and ensuring the application of the Aviva Subsidiary Governance Principles, as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Arranging the delivery of the CoSec Edge training programme, working alongside the Legal Operations Team

• Play a key role in determining and supporting the delivery of the Team’s technology strategy and future roadmap, bringing fresh ideas and a technology enabled approach to the CoSec Function

• Reviewing and supporting the effective use of legal entity technology to support the Governance Function. Including configuration of the platform and supporting the team with automation, dashboarding and reporting regarding legal entity compliance

• Ensuring the business and our regulators have transparency over the legal entity structure of the Aviva Group by creating quarterly structure charts, taking ownership for Close Links reporting

• Manage the delivery of key third party services within agreed budgets

• Value will come from identifying ways in which we can simply and automate our legal entity compliance, whilst still ensuring strong controls and supporting a technology led approach to the CoSec function works

What you need to know/Skills required

• Attention to detail

• How to cut through issues and solve complex legal entity structure queries; creative thinker, problem solver

• How to run and support Audit & Risk Committee through an annual cycle and take minutes at meetings

• How to configure and fully utilise legal entity management technology solutions, including dashboarding, data analytics and reporting

• How to manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders

What you will get

• 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.