Excellent opportunity to join Aviva as a Senior Manager in our highly experienced Corporate Development team!

The Corporate Development team works closely with Group and market senior leaders to evolve and accelerate delivery of the Group’s strategic agenda. The team supports the development and execution of strategic opportunities including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, partnerships and investments across life insurance, general and health insurance, and asset management.

This is a highly sought after opportunity to develop your skillset in a small but highly experienced team offering unrivalled access to Aviva's senior management at group level and relevant business areas across the organisation.

Key aspects of role:

• Leading transaction execution - project management, managing advisors and working with other Group functions to acquire relevant functional input

• Decision support on transactions, including financial and commercial analysis for strategic projects across the group - strategic and options reviews, acquisitions, disposals, distribution agreements, restructurings and reinsurance arrangements

• Managing the preparation of ad-hoc research associated with the Group's strategy, including business and market research

• Preparing Board governance and approval papers

• Adopting and applying effective and efficient risk management and internal control systems, in line with agreed risk appetite

Skills and experience required

• Strong financial, technical and analytical skills, with an understanding of corporate finance concepts (such as discounted cashflow analysis and other valuation approaches)

• Ability to communicate, challenge and influence at a senior level, handling key partners and ensuring business needs are met

• Degree in economics, finance and/or accounting or an actuarial or accounting qualification

• Broad experience and knowledge in corporate finance, equity, debt, accounting, actuarial, capital management, financial planning/controlling and/or investor relations

• Prior experience on an analysts’ programme at an investment bank or other professional services firms

• Demonstrable experience working within M&A, transactional services or investor relations within an investment banking, tech or insurance setting

• Ability to create processes and models from scratch and present to senior board members

What you will get

• Highly competitive salary depending on relevant 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.