Financial Controls Transformation Manager

Aviva; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000

Job description

Financial Controls Transformation Manager

National salary: circa £55,000
London salary: circa £70,000

We have a great opportunity to join Finance at Aviva as a Financial Controls Transformation Manager and be at the forefront of transformation and change. This role involves supporting large-scale business led change and finance transformation initiatives crucial for Aviva's strategic growth. This position is pivotal in ensuring a robust control environment at Aviva, making it an exciting and rewarding opportunity for those ready to drive meaningful change. If this sound like you, we would love to hear from you!

A bit about the job:

You'll have the opportunity to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the control environment, including opportunities to leverage emerging technologies.

Created in response to significant transformation activities within Finance, this role emphasises the importance of a high quality, sustainable control environment.

As a subject matter expert, you'll partner with various stakeholders across finance, using your expertise to generate ideas, challenge processes and support delivery.

You will focus on the full lifecycle of the change process, and will include using your subject matter expertise to:

• Provide support to identify opportunities to drive improvements in the control environment, leveraging the planned change activity.
• Support with design and implementation of controls and integration into planned process improvements.
• Support for identification of risks associated with change delivery and design of mitigating activities.
• Support and challenge through the various stages of change delivery, including testing and business readiness activity.
• Provide input and support on design and implementation of overarching framework for supporting finance colleagues assess and address risk and controls through change delivery.

You will be working in a partnering role with individuals leading and delivering finance transformation and change activity, therefore you will be building working relationships with appropriate contacts and building your understanding of the relevant impacted processes, systems, and data.

As this is a new role, you will have the opportunity to develop the role to meet the needs of the business as the activity undertaken in this team embeds and matures. This role reports into the Financial Control Transformation Director and sits within the Group Financial Controller team, the scope of the role covers all areas of finance and across all market finance teams at Aviva.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• The ideal candidate is likely to be a qualified accountant with recent financial control assurance or controls consultancy experience, with experience of delivery of improved risk and control outcomes.
• Good knowledge of the insurance industry and of finance processes (operational and reporting)
• Experience of working with new technologies to enhance quality and sustainability of control environment and associated risk and control activity would be beneficial but not essential.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), with the ability to communicate using your SME knowledge to non-SMEs.
• Relationship management skills to achieve objectives through others and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.

What you'll get for this role:

• National salary: circa £55,000; London salary: circa £70,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Aviva is for everyone:
We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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