Want to join a team passionate about change? We are looking for enthusiastic change professionals to join the growing Change Team within Aviva Life as Senior Business Analysts.

You’ll be playing a leading role in projects ensuring that business outcomes are understood, delivered, and meet the strategic aims of Aviva. Responsible for delivering solutions that resolve the business problem and setting out its impacts and risks. There are opportunities to mentor and coach to build brilliant teams.

The successful candidate will have experience in supporting different types of business outcomes. You will be happy to be the leader of change and drive the project to deliver the right solution.

Assignments will vary in size and you should be comfortable both in being the sole Business Analyst on a project or leading a team that includes other Business Analysts.

Strong analysis approach

• Well-honed skills and a proven track record across key areas of business analysis and project delivery

• Driving choice of change methodology, benefit definition and realisation, quality assurance, reporting, investment appraisal, governance, risk, security, CARDI, planning, resourcing, providing timely insight and challenge

• Fantastic communication skills exercised with a variety of stakeholders, adjusting content and style to the message and their needs

Commercially astute

• Can model costs and benefits and build investment appraisals

• Able to articulate the link between project deliveries and Aviva strategy

• Can understand commercials that apply and call out where requirements and commercials conflict

• Ensure projects are organised to optimise value for money and delivery risk

Leader of change

• Provide Direction - you can articulate the outcomes of change for the customer, Aviva and other partners, and agree the route to delivery using diverse insights available in the team

• The drive to champion change and shape the work, providing clarity to enable delivery when faced with ambiguity

• Ability to fly solo and/or organise a team of Business Analysts

• Decision maker - able to explore different perspectives and have the confidence to choose a way forward even when this is uncomfortable

• Approaches to inspire people to get on board. You can achieve commitment to agreed outcomes

• You build a culture of accountability, empowerment and delegation. Your analysis approach is tailored to the needs of the change and the needs of the team

• You understand and encourage diversity within the team to bring out the best in everyone

Relationship investor

• Confident with managing challenges. Has a range of strategies to deploy to get the right outcomes for Aviva, our customers and each other

• Able to build and use strong relationships to find ways forward, secure agreement to a course of action in the face of uncertainty, and be confident to call out and help resolution when things are not going to plan

• An open mind to view changes from all perspectives

• Clear focus on the Customer

Always learning

• Focused on growth and development of yourself and others

• Promoter of lessons learned from project experience

• Ability to demonstrate learning from other situations and people and apply that experience to new challenges

• Investing in improvements and best practice for Aviva’s change framework

What will you get for this role?

• Salary between £50,000 - £55,000 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 & 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 ownership, 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 Guv Johal a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to Guv.Johal@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.