An excellent new opportunity has arisen for an Actuarial Audit Manager within our Finance Internal Audit Team here at Aviva!

The role can be based from any of our offices in Bristol, Norwich or London with occasional travel required and flexible working opportunities provided.

The position sits within the wider UK Life audit function with remit spanning several areas of Finance in the Aviva Group giving outstanding exposure to the business as a whole.

As an Actuarial Audit Manager, you will support the delivery of technical actuarial areas within the audit plan. Prior internal audit or risk management experience is an advantage.

Overall responsibilities for the role

You will have an understanding of actuarial risks and controls, be curious, have good communication and relationship building skills with the ability to influence management and motivate change. In this position, your duties and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Under the guidance of the Head of Internal Audit – Finance (AFO & UK Markets), work with colleagues to plan and execute audits to a high quality to provide audit assurance and insights over material Finance risks facing Aviva. This will include financial, insurance, modelling and reporting risks

• Test key technical actuarial controls in areas such as actuarial reporting, modelling, pricing, underwriting, reinsurance, etc

• Communicate and report to stakeholders the assessment of the efficiency of the framework of controls, root causes and culture

• Input to and manage relationships at a senior management level within the business

• Support the reporting to Board Committees (e.g. Audit Committees and Risk Committees), influencing management actions to deliver a more effective controls framework

Working in Internal Audit

Internal Audit’s vision is to focus on what matters to make things better for Aviva. We focus on areas key to Aviva’s strategy. We are passionate about action to deliver any needed risk and control improvements.

Skills and experience we are looking for

• Fully qualified or part qualified life or general insurance actuary

• Experience of working in an insurance or relevant financial services function, audit / consultancy firm or UK regulator

• Experience of identifying and appraising actuarial risks and controls, whether that be in a first line Finance role, second line Risk role or third line Audit role

What you will get

• Salary starting from £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 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.