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Senior Finance Manager, Global Costs

Aviva

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GBP 50,000 - 90,000

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Finance Manager with a robust background in cost management. This role is pivotal in accurately reporting global costs and providing insights that drive operational improvements. You will lead a team, manage external audits, and play a key role in enhancing financial efficiency. This dynamic position offers the chance to influence processes and contribute to a broader finance change agenda, ensuring that your insights add significant value to the business. If you're ready to take on a challenging yet rewarding role in finance, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme
Annual performance bonus eligibility
Family friendly parental leave
Generous holiday entitlement
Discount for Aviva products
Flexible benefits including electric cars
Aviva Matching Share Plan
Volunteering hours per year

Qualifications

  • Post-qualified Accountant with strong cost management background.
  • Experience in financial services and cost reporting roles.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for reporting global cost position and insights.
  • Oversee global offshore cost team and manage audits.

Skills

Post-qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
Strong business acumen
Financial Services experience
Proven experience in cost reporting roles
Confidence to challenge current processes
Ability to influence stakeholders
Previous involvement in change activity

Education

Post-qualification in Accounting

Job description

Please note this position is based in London and this will be the contractual location of the successful candidate; other locations cannot be considered.

Global Costs, Senior Finance Manager

This is a great job for someone who has a strong cost management background and is excited by delivering continuous operational improvements.

A bit about the job:

In this role, you will be responsible for accurately reporting Aviva Investors' global cost position and providing insights into future cost trajectories. This position is crucial for the onward reporting of management and financial cost information to our broader Finance and business stakeholders.

You will have onshore line management responsibilities and oversee our global offshore cost team. Additionally, you will be a key contributor during our global external audit cycles.

You will play an integral part in our wider Finance change agenda, continuously improving our operational efficiency and delivering further value-added insights to the business.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

  1. Post-qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
  2. Strong business acumen with Financial Services experience, asset management preferable
  3. Proven experience in cost reporting roles
  4. Confidence to challenge current processes and ability to influence stakeholders
  5. Previous involvement in change activity

What you’ll get for this role:

  1. Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
  2. Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  3. Family friendly parental and carer’s leave
  4. Generous holiday entitlement plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
  5. Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
  6. Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
  7. Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
  8. 21 volunteering hours per year

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.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here.

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, send an email to GlobalRecruitment@avivainvestors.com.

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