We are currently recruiting for a Technical Accounting Manager role to join our Finance department.

The Technical Advisory and Policy team owns and advises on group accounting policy and its application globally. The team also advises on regulatory reporting policy.

The primary purpose of the role will be to support the Technical Accounting Corporate Lead to deliver best in class technical accounting advisory support in line with corporate centre activity of a FTSE 100 reporting entity, in particular focusing on a number of technical areas including but not limited to mergers, acquisitions and disposals, share based payments, pensions accounting, financial instruments and provisions.

This role also involves supporting on technical advisory aspects of preparing the Group financial statements and external results publications.

Day to day responsibilities include:

• Providing accounting advisory support on a range of queries, transactions and projects typical for a FTSE 100 Financial Services

• Preparation of certain notes in the Group IFRS financial statements, primarily those with a significant degree of complexity and accounting judgement

• Preparation of technical papers to the Group Financial Reporting Committee supporting quarterly reporting cycles and ad hoc corporate technical accounting issues

• Contributing to updates to Group IFRS accounting policy and the Group Reporting Manual

• Contributing to the technical accounting advisory support to the Group M&A team on live projects, producing accounting impacts analysis as inputs to Board approval papers and verification of financial impacts in RNS releases

We are looking for the following skills and experience:

• Strong understanding and application of IFRS and ability to exercise sound and balanced judgement

• Recognised accounting qualification

• Understanding of wider corporate reporting (for example reporting of performance metrics through alternative reporting measures)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to work effectively both independently with appropriate support and as part of a delivery team

• Ability to work through complex problems and able to deal with ambiguity, drawing on the knowledge and experience of a diverse set of SMEs across finance

• Strong inter-personal and stakeholder management skills

What will you get for this role?

• Salary circa £50,000 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 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 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 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.